Example sentences of "[verb] on a bit [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One night I stopped on a bit at the dance in Cotherstone and had to walk home because I could n't get a lift from anyone .
2 Nevertheless undaunted , since things have moved on a bit since nineteen eighty seven , I suppose what I 'm looking for is some guidance as to the way in which policy I twelve has operated in practice .
3 like he does n't know if he 's going on a bit at the moment , he 's just wandering about ,
4 BACK to 1979 , when I carried on a bit about superstitions about earwigs , the whole thing being started up by a film about a man driven off his trolley by one of the insects boring into his brain , shouts of ‘ rubbish ’ at the screen did no good .
5 From the travel point of view things carried on a bit from there in a local sense .
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