Example sentences of "[vb infin] it a bit " in BNC.
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1 | have a read of things and then on the basis of what your informants tell you then you can sort of focus it a bit more on erm tt you know the stuff that er erm you know the stuff that comes out in the literature that 's particularly |
2 | ‘ Maybe you 're right ; I just wish he 'd show it a bit more . |
3 | That would dampen it a bit would n't it ? |
4 | With the best will in the world , it does n't matter how organised we are , we can improve it a bit . |
5 | Anything western was frowned upon , so I thought I 'd give it a bit of time before I got into my trousers and things . |
6 | Maybe she 'll give it a bit of a clean-up then . ’ |
7 | ‘ I 'll give it a bit of a clean up . |
8 | He thought it would give it a bit of glamour . |
9 | I have n't got any , they wo , I could n't get any fresh parsley so I thought that might just give it a bit of colour , but I 've got dried parsley if you 'd rather use that . |
10 | And you think , Well hang on let's just do it a bit of common sense . |
11 | It gets hard work and er someone comes along and says well can we do it a bit quicker ? |
12 | I 'm prepared to pay but I 'll have to do it , just let me do it a bit a week . |
13 | Let's do it a bit faster , ready ? |
14 | I do n't know what you feel , do you think we should still subsidise it a bit ? |
15 | I think I 'll keep it a bit longer yet . |
16 | Can I just say colleagues before you , you second the motion , there is this hubbub again that 's growing , I mean it seems to go down and I do n't know perhaps it 's like the tide but can we try and keep it a bit lower , especially when colleagues are trying to make a speech from the rostrum . |
17 | Right , can we just move it a bit , cos we 've got to make the mixture we sort of have to do |
18 | And they 've given her something low in glucose and that you know to kind of try and stabilize it a bit . |
19 | They did n't say , as the teds did , I can only wear a drape They 'd mix it a bit , getting into biker stuff and cap-sleeved T-shirts . |
20 | We 'll take it a bit gradually to begin with . |
21 | So let's take it a bit slower . |
22 | with the bloke who we have it with and say can we have it a bit earlier . |
23 | You can read it a bit more easily . |
24 | ‘ I can relax it a bit , provided you 've got the general idea . |
25 | It 's sharp as a razor , a real hunting knife , but if you keep the sheath on you can hold it a bit . |
26 | " Herriot , dear boy , ca n't you vary it a bit ? |
27 | you should hide it a bit more than that |
28 | But the second one was to actually make it a bit of bloody exercise in marketing . |
29 | Them as who could make it a bit cheaper see , and all that . |
30 | ‘ maybe you and I could make it a bit bigger though . ’ |