Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept them on a bit too long . |
| 2 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 3 | But then , if a lot of rabbits were afraid of some newcomers and wanted to deceive them — get them down a hole and attack them — they 'd start — would n't they ? — by sending someone who was plausible . |
| 4 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 5 | That 's right , so we work them down a bit . |
| 6 | No , take them down a bit |
| 7 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 8 | So , in other words , you can push them down a bit . |
| 9 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
| 10 | He 's toned them down a hell of a lot . |
| 11 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 12 | On many occasions a small group of children will be playing with cars , either running them down an incline ( a plank resting on a block ) or pushing them up . |
| 13 | Gloria led them along a brick path , across a cobbled courtyard , past outhouses and a dripping water butt , then into the big house and along many passages . |
| 14 | ‘ Let me down a bit more ! ’ |
| 15 | It certainly slowed me down a bit today , and Matt was behind a bush a lot as well . |
| 16 | The isolation is getting me down a bit — I have had to seek to be pretty resilient spiritually with George in , and so the extra resources are pretty deplete because of that . |
| 17 | One set of doors led through to where a sign marked ‘ The Studio ’ took me down a flight of stairs to the basement beneath , the cosiness and warmth of which was a welcomed contrast to the watery excesses above . |
| 18 | the water clean else it erm Do you clean yours out a lot ? |
| 19 | ‘ Corsages were kept in a little drop of water , ’ Harry explained , ‘ but you ca n't plunge a bouquet in a drop of water , so I put them over a bowl of water supported by two canes . |
| 20 | Rub sugar lumps on to the peel of the lemons , holding them over a bowl , until each lump starts crumbling , then start on another . |
| 21 | We took about £150m out of them over a couple of years . ’ |
| 22 | After we 've seen the patients , I 'll tell you more about them over a drink . ’ |
| 23 | This is the so-called ‘ poverty-trap ’ of the lower paid : a small increase in earning takes them over a threshold , whereby they may lose certain welfare benefits and at the same time have to pay a disproportionately large increase in tax on their original income . |
| 24 | When the ideas of the French Revolution concerning the rights of nations to self-government reached the Slovenes , they already had many of the attributes of a modern nation , but it was to take them over a century to achieve a form of self-determination within the wider Yugoslav state . |
| 25 | Littering the slopes of the volcano are thousands of large bombs ejected by the eruption , some of them over a metre in diameter . |
| 26 | However , the route takes them over a culvert near the hospital . |
| 27 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 28 | You have them over a barrel on this issue , with all the right on your side . |
| 29 | A better approach is to adopt a serial approach and solve them over a number of stages . |
| 30 | The whole House will want to congratulate the British miners on doing everything that has been asked of them over a number of years and achieving that massive increase in productivity . |