Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] for a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 2 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 3 | Here — ’ he shoved some gear off the wooden slats of the cockpit , ‘ sit down for a bit . ’ |
| 4 | then he 'll button down for a bit |
| 5 | I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do . |
| 6 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 7 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 8 | I wandered around for a bit and then came back again . |
| 9 | But umm I sort of drove on for a bit and thought it feels alright and then when I got to that , you know B P petrol station , I pulled in and got out and had a look . |
| 10 | And they 'd knock off for a bit of dinner , come back , and do the second milking . |
| 11 | I 'd like to stay lying down for a bit to make my headache go away , but I made a puddle on the pavement and I got to move . |
| 12 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 13 | lie down for a bit ! |
| 14 | ‘ When Marcus comes back , piss off for a bit , will you ? |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going out for a bit . ’ |
| 16 | She said , ‘ I 'm going out for a bit to see Dickie . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm just going out for a bit . |
| 18 | I hang around for a bit , pretending to look at some writing on the board . |
| 19 | People jump about for a bit but then having offered you |
| 20 | I get a bit dizzy lying down on the bench , like I 'm falling backwards and I got to sit up for a bit . |
| 21 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 22 | He bumbled around for a bit , trying to coil up the string and push the wood into tidy heaps . |
| 23 | Victor paces about for a bit . |
| 24 | We walked round for a bit then we came back and watched The Bug-Eyed Monster Strikes Back on the television . |
| 25 | There is no truth in the rumour that some of their number fancied joining in for a bit of a busman's/policeman 's holiday . |
| 26 | A barking broke out for a bit and then was still . |
| 27 | We sit around for a bit , chatting . |
| 28 | ‘ The likes of her 'll go on for a bit yet , ’ said Jack . |
| 29 | ‘ Boom , Boom , ’ says the boogieman , as he coolly shoots his lady down , rams her into his car , steers off to his house , gets a bang out of watching her walking the floor , and then settles down for a bit of baby talk . |
| 30 | Might as well go in for a bit because . |