Example sentences of "[verb] go [adv] [art] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd want to go back a bit before that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( It has gone up a bit since then , but not back to the post-1945 level . ) |
| 4 | ‘ Biochemistry , I see Mrs Hayman 's cholesterol has gone down a bit — Lizzie 's chest X-ray — haematology , Betty 's haemoglobin 's not too good — oh , the Hazell family 's tissue-typing results — ’ She gazed at them shaking her head sadly . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yeah , I think you 'll have to go round a bit . |
| 7 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 8 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 9 | Sheila and Annie did go on a bit last time . |
| 10 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 11 | Gifford had gone overboard a bit in the blues though … |
| 12 | And then if your blood pressure does go down a bit it does n't matter cos you 're lying down . |
| 13 | Yeah , it 's gone round a bit now . |
| 14 | ‘ Only one thing about that pool , ’ Hugh said , depositing Jacqueline wrapped in a damp towel like a warm parcel in his wife 's arms , ‘ the tide 's gone down a bit . |
| 15 | Petrol 's gone down a bit . |