Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a [adj] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not the best of subjects to inject a little bit of humour but we did find er traces of it nevertheless . |
| 2 | The experiments are not particularly relevant to anything , they 're just experiments for experiment 's sake , one experiment illustrating a particular bit of theory ; it does n't do anything particularly useful , you just look at an oscilloscope and take some readings and hence you can demonstrate this bit of theory . |
| 3 | That was a great cross by , did absolut did absolutely magnificent , he controlled the ball he turned left footed shot in and hit against the post , very very unfortunate fo for Blackburn but then I suppose Shrewsbury deserve a little bit of luck . |
| 4 | He 'd said something similar once before and it had made Ronni feel a tiny bit guilty . |
| 5 | Useful though it is for many jobs , the sheer power of the big-capacity Cummins engine puts a fair bit of strain on other parts of the tractor . |
| 6 | ‘ Still , I was quicker and I was pushing hard until about 10 laps from the finish when I thought the engine sounded a little bit different . |
| 7 | Capriati showed a little bit of rust from an eight-week lay-off , but her big first serve consistently registered 100mph and she said : ‘ I felt a lot better in the second set , I got into it a lot more . ’ |
| 8 | And he goes , this joke changes a little bit every time I tell you , I thought I 'd warn you though . |
| 9 | Nobody spoke , Mr spoke a little bit of French but he spoke Spanish fluently . |
| 10 | My husband wanted a little bit on the side |
| 11 | Despite my earlier remarks , I will lapse into ‘ Blue Peter ’ mode occasionally throughout the article to recommend a little bit of ‘ do-it-yourself ’ to overcome minor shortcomings I found in some of the pieces of equipment during my field testing . |
| 12 | It sometimes goes the , the colour as it , as it starts to heal up the , colour gets a wee bit lighter |
| 13 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 14 | Our review guitar 's setup left a fair bit to be desired . |
| 15 | Even the S MP syllabus , which is probably quite well known , most schools in Sussex deal a little bit with the S MP New Maths Syllabus , which has been going twenty thirty years now , but even that was originally written for O-level , and then a version for C S E was introduced . |
| 16 | Before printing a page , the printer 's processor assembles a complete bit mapped image into its memory . |
| 17 | This method involves a little bit of a cheat as the Macintosh keyboard can not access the PostScript fractions unless you either have a special fractions font or are using one of the new Adobe Expert fonts with an extended and re-mapped character set . |
| 18 | A lot of people expected a little bit more . ’ |
| 19 | people getting a little bit confused about that . |
| 20 | It 's no use doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that and getting absolutely nowhere , because you 'll get the two finger job . |
| 21 | it pull a bloody big just let it give yours paper have a little bit of |
| 22 | You just need the bike to turn a little bit and as soon as it 's spinning it turns just enough to where you can pick the bike up and then you nail it off the corner . ’ |
| 23 | and , and er she would sort of say oh and here 's a theatre make a wee bit effort yes that might be the answer |
| 24 | Oxford City Centre getting a little bit easier and Abingdon , Aylesbury ; no problems to report there . |
| 25 | I can recall sweeping dust from the airmens ' compound floor to get a wee bit extra for the billet . |
| 26 | These map programs take a fair bit of work , and can not be drawn up on the launching ship ; the sailors load a ready-made map into the missile , and tell it how to get to the initial way-point . |
| 27 | I have heard erm some choir , the choir sing a little bit cos erm we got a corridor near the music hall and erm they sing up pretty loud so you can hear it . |
| 28 | And I do , I 'm more concerned with the lack of capital in maintenance that 'll we 'll , we 're going to have on the roads and infrastructure this year , I think there 's always a reason to put a little bit of capital maintenance into both our buildings and our roads . |
| 29 | and as the same thing applies to the knee exactly the same thing , wound there you keep the knee bent a little bit and you can do exactly the same bandage like a figure of eight , okay ? |
| 30 | Now this is where the meal gets a little bit French because I have sauce to deal with . |