Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | see that , that come aha , well that carpet we 've got in the sitting room you know , it was , it was twelve hundred pound , only put it down a few , er a few months before we |
| 2 | ‘ Better take us down a piece , where the bank levels out . |
| 3 | I mean , she coped nicely because , providing we maintain a breeding stock of horses , cows and sheep , we can perhaps help you out a little bit more on that if you could erm , help us some more on the timber . |
| 4 | Yeah , and if he becomes just an auto run it could just knock him back a bit , one of the crowd , you know , just another one |
| 5 | You just lay it over a little bit more , it slides and it scrubs off that much more speed . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Not to say pay her , I just helped her out a bit . |
| 7 | Shall I just give you out a load and |
| 8 | John wrote at length to Hanns about colour , shapes and general effect desirable , and asked him to ‘ do a few rough sketches and send them to me to give to Cecily ; number them so that I can just send you back a telegram saying ‘ Do number three ’ say , unless there is more to be said . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ So I said , ‘ Okay , if we 're going to do this again , just drop everything down a f***ing third and let's get rocking again . |
| 10 | Just to spice it up a bit . |
| 11 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 12 | Well , just wrap me up a couple then and I 'll put . |
| 13 | No that 's part of the the windows washing but I 'll quickly washed over them just to spruce them up a bit but I thought if I put Mrs in that , is she driving , or is she not ? |
| 14 | Right I 'll just draw it up a little bit tighter , is that tighter for you ? |
| 15 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |
| 16 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 17 | Well we 'll just have it up a little bit else you ca n't hear what they 're saying . |
| 18 | He just worked you over a bit , put you in hospital , big man ! ’ |
| 19 | I just thinned it down a bit with this and that . ’ |
| 20 | This earring here , this pendant earring just lifts that area up just a little bit , not too much , not too obtrusive , but just enough for sort of a a highlight catching the pendant earring just to lift it up a little . |
| 21 | I 'm just rubbing it out a little bit to give me a bit more space |
| 22 | Ca n't we just back it along a bit so that Andrew can you know |
| 23 | I 'll just put it back a little bit there . |
| 24 | The scanning expert said : ‘ The easiest way to do that would be to enhance the quality of the original recording then just play it down an ordinary phone to a mobile phone in an area where the signal was strong . |
| 25 | Yeah , and he always writes me out a couple and I ai n't got the money . |
| 26 | Always put it about a bit , Steenie . |
| 27 | In Ninfania , no one threw away the feather of a bird or the peel of a fruit or the seed from a melon , let alone such durable items as the buttons and hooks and eyes from a worn-out item of underwear — I 've seen you still snip them off an old bra , even today , and drop them into a little box in your sewing basket . |
| 28 | Well , they had hardly brought her up a tea-tray ( with the most delicious things to eat ) when she was told that there was someone downstairs to see her : it turned out that most of the young men , her one-time tutors , were dons now or curators or secretaries to cabinet ministers and apparently asking for nothing better than to take her about , and there were Anna 's English friends , all those people who had dined or wintered at the palazzo . |
| 29 | ‘ Joyce always slowed it down a bit for Americans — takes them a while to tune in y'know . ’ |
| 30 | He was a man who had always put it about a bit , as Harry Chiltern said . |