Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following last night I think that MUFC are going to be VERY worried about trying to reassert themselves … more importantly , I think that the rest of the Premier league will be saying , ‘ well look at that , MUFC wre made to look a bit silly by a group of no-hopers … |
| 2 | But this plea has worn a bit thin . |
| 3 | That 's what you want , a decent endowment , it takes out all the fluctuations , and er the they 've big reserves , and of course the minute the endowment starts to look a bit poorer , it 's switch back to P E Ps , course I 've always said that P E Ps were a good idea , and the charges are much better now than they were , and I 'm just thinking of the poor chap that 's read the paper two years ago , over his tea and toast on a Sunday and thought mhm good idea , I 'll take an endowment , and two years later it 's the same person saying aha , no , pretty bad news an endowment . |
| 4 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 5 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 6 | So that 's the background of why I 'm giving this as long retired er tax inspector the mean , my own department has got a bit mean . |
| 7 | I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ . |
| 8 | Sprake was exceptionally good at pulling off the nearly impossible saves but his mind seemed to wander a bit ( perhaps back to the Valleys ) . |
| 9 | Well , the er th they seem to Richard seemed to cry a bit more or a bit easier , you know , if he bumped himself and Bryony , and I think it was , well Bryony it seemed to be a heavy cold that was making her feel miserable . |
| 10 | Leeds fans started to look a bit more worried … they had 4–5 shots from the edge of the area … fortunately they are so crap not one crossed the line inside the penalty area ! |
| 11 | Ken 's got a bit more to do then ? |
| 12 | I admit , the figure 's gone a bit , but then it started going when I was still twenty-five . |
| 13 | Mind 's gone a bit , I suppose . |
| 14 | But he 's worked hard to adapt to the pace of things in England and because of that , his skill has suffered a bit . |
| 15 | The confession seemed to remove a bit of his fury , but he did not relax very much . |
| 16 | McAllister , Speed , Strachan , Kelly all played superbly ( Speed particularly so — even Trevor ‘ Triffic ’ Brooking thought so ) and Deane began to look a bit more menacing . |
| 17 | Tom Regan having said a bit about that , I will not say too much more . |
| 18 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 19 | The boy 's had a bit of a whippin' , like . |
| 20 | Anyway , everyone knows that training shoes have gone a bit crazy in the past few years . |
| 21 | so one council 's got a bit of paper and it ties up with the other one when you come here but if you do n't , if you have n't paid before you could n't tell them you were leaving |
| 22 | The movie business has turned a bit more reticent about the art world since Glimcher 's folly . |
| 23 | The British banger has taken a bit of a grilling today . |
| 24 | And stats do take a bit of time to do and you can write off a couple of hours if you 're going to do it properly and make sure that you 've got your i's dotted and your t's crossed . ’ |
| 25 | Her Majesty 's dogs did make a bit of a dent in the corgi image when one of them bit the Queen 's hand during a fight last year , but like King Charles the second and his spaniels , the Queen is inseparable from her corgis . |
| 26 | ‘ Aleena 's got a bit of a cough , ’ she said . |
| 27 | No I think er the that Forest have put a bit of a press on them . |
| 28 | If we look at a relationship or any type of commu mean taking a bit of a different look at things thinking well what is it that this person wants from me and what is it that I want from this person ? |
| 29 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |
| 30 | Your share price seemed to take a bit of a knock the other day when Roy made some comments about referring media conglomerates to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |