Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [verb] a [adj] bit " in BNC.
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1 | And presumably you 'd like to see push a little bit further upfield ? |
2 | Some of them are going to have to puzzle a little bit hard . |
3 | He 's going to have to improve a little bit on his last win , but I think he can do that , so that 's the fourth leg of a yankee , trap one , Ambridge Power . |
4 | Now you ca n't actually park by casualty 's door , you 're going to have to park a little bit before that . |
5 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
6 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
7 | It seems to have happened a little bit quicker than planned , ’ he joked . |
8 | You do have to compromise a fair bit and I suppose that I would like more freedom than I 've got . |
9 | In retrospect , I would probably have saved a little bit more , but there it is — I did manage to save a little bit anyway . |
10 | ‘ Personally , I would liked to have done a little bit better in the Tests . |
11 | Yes , but lo , but then we 've so , we 've got to pre-judge a little bit then , as to what illness they 're going to have , and that gets a bit difficult . |
12 | So if you wan na take them home you 've got to pay a little bit of money |
13 | So I suppose you 've got to have a little bit of a thick skin . … . ’ |
14 | So you 've got to have a little bit of patience in relation to what other road users may do . |
15 | I think you 've got to add a little bit to that . |
16 | we 've had to dig a little bit out |
17 | But once you get down below the horizon you get to look round this area here where there 's some rope tangled round , some kind of padding , it does tend to get a little bit lost amongst all the pebbles . |
18 | out so you just , so maybe just , maybe , I 've taken a slight hard line to say no , people have got to make a wee bit effort too , but maybe in fact |
19 | I tell you what it was , it was Samsung , if you 've a little bit of tape and you end at beginning and you want it , well say you wanted to tape to test a little bit say off telly or |