Example sentences of "[v-ing] up a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , well brightening up a bit |
| 2 | I told him we were softening up a bit . |
| 3 | I 'm surprised that we 're not picking up a bit more a few more highlights , it 's a bit . |
| 4 | Things are looking up a bit at the moment . |
| 5 | Of course , he was growing up a bit . |
| 6 | Yeah , we 're talking about children who you know thirteen , fourteen , fifteen , which are growing up a bit , but we get them altered and we get them made for them , we used to get them made and er still do I think . |
| 7 | She 's growing up a bit ? |
| 8 | I could n't , I ca n't believe though you growing up a bit better now . |
| 9 | I think you need buttering up a bit . |
| 10 | Do you want the settee pulling up a bit ? |
| 11 | Well we 're catching up a bit . |
| 12 | But perhaps the old goat 's loosening up a bit , if Crawlspace 's latest slice of free spirit improvisation is any indicator of where LGJ 's personal musical taste is heading these days . |
| 13 | That 's why I stuck all the posters here think the back issues loosening up a bit it was getting pretty tight . |
| 14 | But Lugh would rise above it all , and would not bother to listen to complaints about who was getting larger helpings of stew , or who was having the most comfortable sleeping quarters , or even who was getting up a bit later than everyone else . |
| 15 | I thought things were hotting up a bit there . ’ |
| 16 | By 1986 things were hotting up a bit . |
| 17 | This one seems to be perking up a bit , . |
| 18 | That 's right , and I think that erm , yes , there 's a notion that I find useful in talking to students that we all have a comfort zone , there are all things that we know about , that we know how to do and if anything comes up — I mean in business it might be accountancy , we do n't all know how to handle figures , and so that 's an area that we 've hived off in that area and we all know that when we do that we are , as it were , giving up a bit ; we 're saying ‘ well , I ca n't manage I just do n't have I ca n't do that , it 's not for me ’ . |
| 19 | She insists on tacking up a bit of tinsel and so on and I see she 's done the same for you . |
| 20 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 21 | I 'm just tidying up a bit while you 're singing darling |
| 22 | I think for Lesley taking up a bit personally . |
| 23 | seems to be making up a bit . |
| 24 | Are you thinking about putting up a bit of holly this year ? |
| 25 | ‘ You and Jim want jollying up a bit . ’ |
| 26 | So , standing up a bit here , come over by the window . |
| 27 | 3 At 4 pm. her car engine starts playing up a bit so she slows down to 20km /h for the rest of her journey home , Answer these questions from your graph . |
| 28 | been playing up a bit . |
| 29 | Said Guy 's been playing up a bit lately has n't he ? |
| 30 | ‘ Just been clearing up a bit . ’ |