Example sentences of "[v-ing] on a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'Cos , like , just 'cos you 're gettin' on a bit does n't mean you ca n't wear fab gear an' pull groovy chicks an' that . |
| 2 | The film sticks to the standard Bo plot — older man ( Anthony Quinn ) lusts comically after her body — but with Bo cracking on a bit , the stakes have had to be raised a bit . |
| 3 | I thought we were going on a bit . |
| 4 | Well if you rung you could always say oh I 'll have to go cos somebody at the door if she starts going on a bit long . |
| 5 | like he does n't know if he 's going on a bit at the moment , he 's just wandering about , |
| 6 | ‘ Staying on a bit , you see , to help Mr Kennedy here . ’ |
| 7 | However , having carelessly left the shed unlocked , our mower and strimmer were stolen and , as we are both getting on a bit , we decided we would take up the lawn and put down gravel instead . |
| 8 | He was getting on a bit , transferred in to the Mounted . |
| 9 | Mr Jagger responded by saying , ‘ Poor old Bill 's getting on a bit now , you know . |
| 10 | NOW that 's he getting on a bit , Eric Clapton is steering clear of his flashy Ferraris and Alfa Romeos . |
| 11 | ‘ He was getting on a bit , was n't he ? ’ |
| 12 | They were getting on a bit when I was born . ’ |
| 13 | I ca n't believe Mel is the player he was two years ago and he must be getting on a bit now , but we have still got Ray Wallace just incase I s'pose . |
| 14 | She says you have to be brusque with them because they 're getting on a bit , you know . |
| 15 | ‘ He is getting on a bit , he is going grey round the whiskers and has a milky white coat . |
| 16 | Pregnant replies , mystic allusions , mistaken identities , arguing his father is his mother , that sort of thing ; intimations of suicide , foregoing of exercise , loss of mirth , hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment ; invocations of camels , chameleons , capons , whales , weasels , hawks , handsaws — riddles , quibbles and evasions ; amnesia , paranoia , myopia ; day-dreaming , hallucinations ; stabbing his elders , abusing his parents , insulting his lover , and appearing hatless in public — knock-kneed , droop-stockinged and sighing like a love-sick schoolboy , which at his age is coming on a bit strong . |
| 17 | taking on a bit much . |