Example sentences of "and [v-ing] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I said no , I simply could n't , banishing the thought that I probably could , quite easily , just by ringing James back and sounding a bit pathetic . |
| 2 | But at least he was out of his top-secret room and getting a bit of fresh air for a change . |
| 3 | Well apart from the cleaning and all that and getting a bit of profit . |
| 4 | Lester is one-dimensional ; there 's nothing else he can think about apart from riding race horses , and getting a bit of money as well also helps him , so the problem is , when you 're one-dimensional , you 're lost if you 're not doing the only thing you love and understand , and that must be a bit sad . |
| 5 | The was hot water on demand for washing and , believe it or not , a sauna bath available at a moment 's notice , run by a scientist from Estonia who was spending his holidays working at camp and doing a bit of climbing when there was no-one wanting a little birch-twig flagellation . |
| 6 | And she and her friend Betty had spent long hours together , playing tennis and squash and doing a bit of swimming . |
| 7 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
| 8 | We are prepared to take the risk in giving up our jobs and taking a bit of time out . ’ |
| 9 | In his mid-forties , I guessed , and carrying a bit of weight . |
| 10 | We took off into the last of the evening sun in poor visibility and I do not recall seeing any of the aircraft that took-off in front of me rise in the evening murk , I was too busy putting the nose down and squeezing a bit more speed out of the lumbering Whitley as we cleared the boundary . |
| 11 | And you had if it was no good you wanting something and waving a bit of plastic at it . |
| 12 | That let the Christmas kitten off the hook — and , thinking back , I remember having swollen glands and feeling a bit run down after eating some very rare lamb at a lunch party we went to around the time I conceived . ’ |
| 13 | It 's just that , as a nome who is probably seven years old and feeling a bit creaky , I 've got to admit I 'd find it sort of comforting to have a few of the good old signs around the place . |