Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] bit [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then you remember it and it starts to come a bit true does n't it ? |
| 2 | It seems thought will be given to playing Tony Stanger in the centre to provide a bit more physique in defence and on that theme Michael Dods could be destined to be left out , not because he has played badly , but rather as a reflection that the powerhouse physiques are prone to get the better of him in escaping tackles . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I hope we are going to find a bit more life than this , ’ grunted Billy , as they sat down at a table near the gas fire . |
| 4 | The stolid sexton , James Whiting , had to find a bit more space in her grave to accommodate a certain Mary Humphries ; we know her — she is Thomas the Calvinist 's daughter Mary , née Titford , who had married Stephen Humphries of Devizes in 1752 . |
| 5 | I think that in due time the British people will want to know a bit more than that . |
| 6 | The Tang is shy and hides a lot and has recently started to look a bit tatty and pale in colour , although he feeds well . |
| 7 | Erm so I mean this is this is never distressed but it 's beginning to look a bit ancient now . |
| 8 | But if they were supposed to be keeping up the fiction about being happily married — a second honeymoon , indeed ! — then it was going to look a bit odd , if not downright peculiar , if he did n't spend his nights here in the cottage . |
| 9 | anything but I thought you were looking , beginning to look a bit tired . |
| 10 | You can also get insulated socketed metal tubes , but unless there are encased in brick or stone blocks , they tend to look a bit industrial . |
| 11 | ‘ We will be playing posh venues , nearly all theatres around Britain , so I 'll have to look a bit posh . ’ |
| 12 | But I do like to look a bit different and distinctive . ’ |
| 13 | Today she looked like being later than ever and the excuse was beginning to look a bit thin . |
| 14 | Following last night I think that MUFC are going to be VERY worried about trying to reassert themselves … more importantly , I think that the rest of the Premier league will be saying , ‘ well look at that , MUFC wre made to look a bit silly by a group of no-hopers … |
| 15 | ‘ If you spent your time doing 25 laps with a thousand gear changes , sweating in a flame-proof suit and helmet then you 'd want to look a bit glamorous at the end of the day , ’ she said , The splendid lady in charge of raffle tickets for RUKBA seemed very knowledgeable about Washington . |
| 16 | He borrowed a new T-shirt from Jazz and tried to look a bit cleaner after his night in the graveyard potting shed , determined to keep out of trouble till after the competition . |
| 17 | That 's what you want , a decent endowment , it takes out all the fluctuations , and er the they 've big reserves , and of course the minute the endowment starts to look a bit poorer , it 's switch back to P E Ps , course I 've always said that P E Ps were a good idea , and the charges are much better now than they were , and I 'm just thinking of the poor chap that 's read the paper two years ago , over his tea and toast on a Sunday and thought mhm good idea , I 'll take an endowment , and two years later it 's the same person saying aha , no , pretty bad news an endowment . |
| 18 | Well also the rest of it 's going to look a bit weird at the bottom is n't it ? |
| 19 | Now the purpose of therefore of this training course and any any training course is to do this is to be able to handle the arousal and increase your level of performance and even get the peak to move that way so for any level of arousal you 're getting better performance but you 're also able to handle a bit more butterflies a bit more of the nerves in order to perform effectively , and apart from a training course like this how do you achieve that ? |
| 20 | But when that voice was stretched over an LP it started to wear a bit thin . |
| 21 | It might be as well to sound a bit childish , and even slightly simple . |
| 22 | ‘ I know this is going to sound a bit silly , but in a way it was because of her that I came here . ’ |
| 23 | It is a good idea of Lewis Carroll to think of the March hare because in March hares tend to go a bit potty and they stand on their back legs and box each other . |
| 24 | A death is always exciting , always makes you realise how alive you are — how vulnerable but so-far-lucky , but the death of somebody close gives you a good excuse to go a bit crazy for a while and do things that would otherwise be inexcusable . |
| 25 | I do n't water mine very often I wait till the , one of the leaves start to go a bit yellow and then |
| 26 | Er , the economic situation is is entirely their fault , er , not that I 'm saying that the Labour would do any better , but erm I 'd like to see a bit more er , a bit more opposition from the er , from the Labour party and er , not so much direct action , but saying , you know , things do not have to be like this ! |
| 27 | And it 's very useful in , particularly in that respect , to give a bit more time , notice , I mean , several months in some cases , if you can actually signal , something that is useful that you can contribute and send it in , that will help them plan that far ahead . |
| 28 | Then if the patient starts to wake up , this device sounds an alarm saying that the brain activity is increasing , and that is commensurate with the person waking up , so the anaesthetist knows that he 's got to put a bit more anaesthetic into the person . |
| 29 | Portugal , who beat England 1-0 in the last World Cup , need to do a bit more than that next Wednesday to deny the Czechoslovakians a place in next year 's finals — they need to win by four goals . |
| 30 | THE 1992 programme is going to run a bit late for the European Community 's financial-services companies . |