Example sentences of "[be] [art] bit [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You feel that you 're a bit of burden on your friends , perhaps , because you ca n't go to the pub and buy a round of drinks , because you 're bit of a drag on a lot of activities which involve spending some sort of money . |
| 2 | And i you 're a bit on edge ? |
| 3 | Now we 're a bit off Christmas , we 've We have had Christmas cards from Norway , Indonesia , Mauritius , Northern Island not to mention the er Scotland and England . |
| 4 | They 're a bit like stone . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , he 's always been a bit into death and destruction , ’ Preston conceded . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've been a bit below par this evening , ’ she apologised . |
| 7 | I suppose there might have been a bit of unpleasantness . |
| 8 | It would have been a bit of excitement . |
| 9 | The Store nomes liked sleeping on fancy bits of carpet , but Masklin 's bed had been a bit of wood . |
| 10 | So do you think that erm when this law was erm pushed through in nineteen forty seven that er perhaps Mao you know well I think there 's been a bit of excess now , I think we 'll do some we just need , we just need a bit of a rush now just to take us through a bit and then we 'll stop it in a few months time . |
| 11 | It 's all been a bit of fun , bit of a laugh really . |
| 12 | I think there 's been a bit of improvement this year compared to last . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm afraid there 's been a bit of bother , Mrs Mitchell , ’ he said . |
| 14 | So we are a bit at sea . |
| 15 | Mr Jones said : ‘ The balloons are a bit of fun , but the serious message is that the West Suffolk Hospital , which has served the community since 1882 , has entered an exciting new era in terms of health care for the area . ’ |
| 16 | These are a bit like pop-up books with foreground , middle ground and background to give perspective and , in movement , parallax , that is , near things apparently moving past each other in the foreground and middle ground while the background stands still , which is how motion is perceived in the real world seen from , say , a train . |
| 17 | Square and er towers on the corner , but eh , I think Abbey Fields and er St. Albans are a bit like Castle Fields , but |
| 18 | There are no bits of paper to shuffle . |
| 19 | If you put the bottom on wheel , put some wheels on the bottom of the ladder so it could n't fall because of the bottom , then it would still stay there because on the floor would be the bit of grip from the top . |
| 20 | Well , I 'm a bit of toucher myself and I , I do n't mind if it 's friends or family or someone I 'm keen on |
| 21 | ‘ But you must see I 'm a bit on edge . |
| 22 | At least there was soon to be a bit of activity in the neighbourhood to distract the young lad 's attention : in June of 1797 Charles the Cheesemonger was to achieve the singular distinction of being mentioned , en passant , in an Act of Parliament . |
| 23 | And with luck , it could turn out to be a bit of gang warfare which nobody is — unofficially , of course — ; going to bust a gut trying to solve . |
| 24 | I 'd thought there might be a bit of rope or some such in the vestry . |
| 25 | That could well be a bit of verisimilitude , it may well be the original man Moses was a powerful man with a powerful temper and perhaps this was come down to us er as , as a bit of historical truth , but erm nevertheless the whole figure of Moses and his laws by later generations and this , this th what Freud is trying to do is to erm undo this rewriting the process again truth . |
| 26 | Let's go and just have a drink , Ted 'll look after the kids , your Lucy can sleep in Frieda 's bed , be a bit of company for her . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 'd be a bit of fun ! ’ |
| 28 | Well that may be a bit of fun , but it is quite possible for you to write in a complicated manner without realising it . |
| 29 | I thought that would be a bit of fun . |
| 30 | Thought to start , it 'd be a bit of fun no harm is it |