Example sentences of "go [adv prt] a 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 I thought we were going on a bit .
8 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 .
9 like he does n't know if he 's going on a bit at the moment , he 's just wandering about ,
10 No , no C and B this time , we 're going down a bit , it 's in your left hand
11 It 's going off a bit now is n't it ?
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 That 's going back a bit in n it ?
15 I 'm going back a bit there .
16 Oh that 's going back a bit is n't it ?
17 Oh God that 's going back a bit .
18 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
19 ‘ We 'll be able to go out a bit while I 'm on this early shift , ’ she said consolingly .
20 ‘ Ringwood 's history with dogs goes back a bit further .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 We 'd want to go back a bit before that .
24 Sheila and Annie did go on a bit last time .
25 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 .
26 might go on a bit Shut me gob .
27 Erm I think , yeah , o over elaborate erm explanation of why the C C Q , that went on a bit long .
28 If these are easily achieved we go on a bit longer .
29 Go on a bit louder .
30 And then if your blood pressure does go down a bit it does n't matter cos you 're lying down .
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