Example sentences of "a bit [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me how much food to give him every day , and to be sure to leave the window open a bit so he could get into the garden and do his business . |
| 2 | He would just walk on , holding her hand and letting her lead him , turning his head a bit so she would n't see his closed eyes and keeping the sun on his left cheek as an additional guide . |
| 3 | 3 At 4 pm. her car engine starts playing up a bit so she slows down to 20km /h for the rest of her journey home , Answer these questions from your graph . |
| 4 | If someone comes to ask you to move your car forward a bit so he can park his 10 ton truck which is completely blocking the road , it 'll be when you 've lost the car keys . |
| 5 | well we used to come in here before went and that has n't been the same at night cos it got a bit so he 'd say excuse me , love there 's ladies present here ca n't have that . |
| 6 | I du n no , on the one side down a bit so he was n't so noticeable and round the other side there 's ! |
| 7 | ‘ That river has risen quite a bit since earlier on , ’ murmured Charlie . |
| 8 | ‘ The company has shrunk a bit since the move , ’ says Phil Longden , 33 , an applications programmer with the company since 1986 . |
| 9 | His sales have dipped a bit since Jig , and all the Grafton reissues have rather confused people , but this is new and first-class . |
| 10 | I 've got two years superannuation to come , and I 've saved a bit since I left home . |
| 11 | He 's about my height but he 's filled out a bit since he came here and he has a kind of stoop now which makes him look smaller and older than he is . |
| 12 | Life has perked up a bit since The Grange was sold and we moved to Brighton . |
| 13 | Camille , of course , did not care a bit since she had never felt the need of such things . |
| 14 | Right well just that er it 's been resolved a bit since I handled it cos er got this meeting set up which I do n't know whether , whether you need to come , it 's on the second of February |
| 15 | Erm well it 'll be useful I think for you , I me , assuming that peoples ' timetables may well have changed a bit since er , the beginning of last term it 'll be useful if you |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It still niggled me a bit that he could return to a centrally heated and solidly built barrack block , while the girls shivered in their huts . |
| 18 | It was It seems a kind of I mean it seems to have gone on quite a bit that people who had a Co book would allow other people to draw off of that , would go to the shops and buy whatever they needed of the Co book . |
| 19 | I teased him for a bit that I did n't get it , it went for so much . |
| 20 | I 'd much rather y , you know , you did anything you want , than ignore a bit that you could otherwise find useful . |
| 21 | Actually , we decided after a bit that there was nothing very sinister about Sun , but that he is just an auxiliary comrade who helps to keep tabs on us , makes sure we do n't get lost in the crowd , etc . |
| 22 | no I 'm afraid there 'll be no footpath there , in fact , it hurts me a bit that because they 're cutting straight , they 're cutting along in line with that pub public |
| 23 | erm , I want a bit that 's not got too much fat on it do n't you ? |
| 24 | I ca n't find a bit that Give me the pencil and let me show you . |
| 25 | Yes , that was a bit that 's been a bit hyped up erm |
| 26 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 27 | At first they irritate a bit but when you are used to them you find them serviceable . ’ |
| 28 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 29 | I like to be able to arrange my own times a bit but that is n't always possible and you 've got to accommodate yourself as well to the needs of the staff . ’ |
| 30 | Endless cups of coffee helped a bit but what a relief it was to see the first pale streaks of dawn creeping across the sky . |