Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's OK , Maggie , I got here a bit late as well , but they were waiting , you did n't run away did you , loves ? |
| 2 | I came here a bit early this evening , and I did n't want to risk any of those clamps or fines or anything . |
| 3 | In the 1980s I raised quite a bit of money for Sainsbury 's charities . |
| 4 | I knew quite a bit about the war and the suffering of the peoples of Europe . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ she acknowledged reluctantly , lifting her small chin so that her fine hair fell away from her face , ‘ I did quite a bit . ’ |
| 6 | I left just a bit less naive than when I 'd started , and a lot more confused ; in the end I fitted neither with the industrious working-class student body ( which was a large proportion ) nor with the socially confident middle class who did less work but had better cultural camouflage to disguise their deficiencies . |
| 7 | You , you mentioned also a bit once , when I came before , about the erm the , the lock for the cricket ground . |
| 8 | So you played quite a bit in the classics during training . |
| 9 | And you spent quite a bit of it , that , say on sweets . |
| 10 | And in fact , it 's been a that 's why you needed quite a bit doing to it . |
| 11 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 12 | She waited there a bit and then dashed up the road and crossed over to our street . |
| 13 | She had quite a bit of work done . |
| 14 | Fareda , I 'd like to come back to you because you said that you had quite a bit of information from people currently in Kuwait . |
| 15 | oh well , we ca n't very well be whether Julie said she liked boys to go out with her , go , and we provisionally booked , I think it was the last week in February , we got quite a bit on , I said er if I ca n't make it I 'll ring you , but then , oh that was it she rung me up , and she said Lynnie |
| 16 | We learnt quite a bit . |
| 17 | At the end of the day though , the championship I think , tells you who is the best team of any one year and erm that 's the professional 's choice I think , if you said at the start of the year which = trophy we 'd like to win , we would have said the championship , erm we were top I think after two games and we fell away a bit since but erm the time to be tops after twenty two , so lets hope we can get up there . |
| 18 | ‘ Our final position showed that we had quite a bit of initiative and stamina . |
| 19 | ‘ We had quite a bit of success . |
| 20 | and er it was n't bad , the snow was n't very good to start with but it snowed on the Thursday and then we , you know , we skied quite a bit after that , but poor girl she got sciatica on the Wednesday |
| 21 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 22 | Now maybe the person that ran the book did n't really need to use all that , so at at the end of a a year , say for instance , they 'd quite a bit of money lying on that that black book . |
| 23 | ‘ They swallowed quite a bit out of politeness , but they 're not stupid , so I had to behave myself . |
| 24 | Mind you , it looks as if they did quite a bit of homework and know kelly is a converted winger … |
| 25 | it it got away a bit you know and and |
| 26 | On the higher literary level it rubbished quite a bit of Hardy and much of D.H.Lawrence . |
| 27 | Pouncey was Vercoe 's squeeze , and so he cut loose a bit with the cattle prod . ’ |
| 28 | It contained quite a bit of information — the position of the police telephones , the infirmaries , the hospitals , fire brigade , fire boxes , and so on . |
| 29 | She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was . |
| 30 | He had quite a bit on Harvey , a Kennedy Catholic who had been ‘ the good friend ’ of the late Emma Kerr . |