Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays few people can detect this very slight disability although I tend to limp a bit if I get tired . |
| 2 | But I think they recognise that I 'm not trying to exploit the Broads to line my pocket , and that I 've taken a bit of care . |
| 3 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 4 | and I 'd got a bit of an headache , well I took two tablets and it had gone before Steve come in and er I had me tea and I w I went like that and I thought God almighty ! |
| 5 | ‘ The Liver Birds had just started on television , ’ recalled Allen , ‘ and I remember reading a bit in the paper saying there were very few situation comedies written for women , with women in the lead roles . |
| 6 | I 've got two years superannuation to come , and I 've saved a bit since I left home . |
| 7 | David has done some transcription this week , erm and I 've done a bit , erm and that 's basically , well we 've got one side of , you 've got one side of those lectures to do erm and I 've got some of the recording that I made on Thursday to do and that and that . |
| 8 | And I 've left a bit . |
| 9 | We had an orgy last night and I 've got a bit of a headache today , I 'm going to have a lie down in a minute . |
| 10 | My Dad 's away on business again tomorrow and I want to spend a bit of time with him before he goes . |
| 11 | And I want to travel a bit . |
| 12 | ‘ My mother 's very interested in it , and I have to know a bit about it as a florist . |
| 13 | ‘ Groups like yours are a bit outside my experience , ’ he confided , ‘ and I need to understand a bit about what Miss Morgan did for a living . |
| 14 | but erm , you know , I remember as coming across one or two obstacles and I could n't get in to it I thought if I 'd tried a bit harder , I did n't want to start you know so |
| 15 | Apparently , if I had waited a bit longer prices would have been much higher . |
| 16 | Then if I want to put a bit of ‘ plate ’ or ‘ room ’ on , I 'll either put a bit on when I 'm recording it , by putting it through an effect , or using the guitar player 's FX . |
| 17 | ‘ I sometimes use an ambient mic on guitars , but I find that it can make things sound a bit too boxy and I 'd rather have the choice on the mix if I want to add a bit of ambience . |
| 18 | She knows that I have arthritis and if I do need a bit of support , Clare 's always there , unobtrusively , to give me a hand . |
| 19 | Cos I 've got a bit er my blood 's a bit thick round the scar so disperse the blood . |
| 20 | Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes . |
| 21 | ‘ I may not like London over much but I do know a bit about the place and one thing I know is that it 's big , bloody big . |
| 22 | Clive , 28 , from Middlesbrough , Cleveland , said : ‘ I like a good sing-song when I 'm having a bath , but I do get a bit loud and the neighbours ca n't hear the telly . |
| 23 | Oh I usually give but I do get a bit tired of it sometimes ! |
| 24 | ‘ But I did feel a bit funny afterwards because it was so early and I did n't remember seeing the man around the house before . |
| 25 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 26 | Try to get it before Christmas , because I 've got a bit of time off then , and I 'll help you settle in . ’ |
| 27 | Buy me one I know I do n't like it till I 've had a bit as a drink . |
| 28 | ‘ YES , I was fired up — I always get like that when I 've had a bit of stick and I have had a lot of stick lately . ’ |
| 29 | I 'll come up when I 've got a bit of time , I 'll come an' cheer her up . ’ |
| 30 | I did n't feel guilty about it , though I did feel a bit inadequate somehow . |