Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [art] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on a bit … ’ |
| 2 | Goes on a bit thick . |
| 3 | So you 've got the children tomorrow lunchtime , you 've got the band tomorrow evening , but the library exhibition goes on a bit longer ? |
| 4 | It loops it goes down a bit . |
| 5 | if I may give you a word of advice , you may think it 's rude , but when Mr is asking questions try not to turn down towards him , if you try and face across the jury , that 's what carries the voice if you 're looking at them , if you turn to your left , a bit of your head goes down a bit , it 's only natural , you 're not as used to courts as Mr is , er , he , he , your , it , your voice smothers , it 's not a question of shouting it 's just looking in the right direction , yes Mr go on |
| 6 | But then , it 's a big difference between skiing abroad and you know , like staying somewhere like Cyprus skiing in Scotland , it 's true , but I mean , it 's like the first , I mean , my dad 's typical , sort of , get to the top of the hill and give you a good shove , you know , give you one time to go down a bit slowly and then after that you just get to the top ski downhill phhhh . |
| 7 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 8 | I thought we were going on a bit . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | like he does n't know if he 's going on a bit at the moment , he 's just wandering about , |
| 11 | No , no C and B this time , we 're going down a bit , it 's in your left hand |
| 12 | And we did not stop for four days , discussing every detail , going over every bit of ground . |
| 13 | It 's going off a bit now is n't it ? |
| 14 | Whereby you know going back a bit it was quite the accepted thing to stand and have a chat for ten , twenty minutes and er life was at a slower pace . |
| 15 | And , perhaps going back a bit and looking at the history of the last ten years , it is important to realize that we have developed small centres as well as large ones . |
| 16 | That 's going back a bit in n it ? |
| 17 | I 'm going back a bit there . |
| 18 | Oh that 's going back a bit is n't it ? |
| 19 | Oh God that 's going back a bit . |
| 20 | Yeah I think you will just pop it on then just looks such a mess when you 're going round a bit like that but I 'm afraid |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll be able to go out a bit while I 'm on this early shift , ’ she said consolingly . |
| 22 | ‘ Ringwood 's history with dogs goes back a bit further . |
| 23 | SUCH has been the scale of reopenings ( not to mention survivals ) of lines and stations in the 1980s that to put matters in perspective it is necessary to go back a bit in history . |
| 24 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 25 | We 'd want to go back a bit before that . |
| 26 | Sheila and Annie did go on a bit last time . |
| 27 | Right , let's go on a bit further , so we 've just done concussion , compression er the next one is an illness , epilepsy now epilepsy , two types , you get the petit mal which is the small fit and the grand mal which is the erm large fit or the full , full fit . |
| 28 | might go on a bit Shut me gob . |
| 29 | Erm I think , yeah , o over elaborate erm explanation of why the C C Q , that went on a bit long . |
| 30 | If these are easily achieved we go on a bit longer . |