Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [pron] [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't think it 's a er maybe it 's because the background , I think , I 'm just trying to make up my mind why it loses a bit of interest , and I think what happens is , that the background being , having all this foliage which is lots of light pouring on er , all this sort of twiggery round here is er picking up lots of highlights and that tends to detract from the fairly plain shapes and smooth surfaces of the gourds . |
2 | But with Son being here , talking about it once in a while when she gets a bit down , and do n't we all — well , I feel like it all happened last week , and what 's more as if I was in the middle of it . |
3 | Yeah more to sort of statements of principles rather than just a policy so it lasts a bit . |
4 | When he gets in a er a punch up he goes a bit fucking do lally . |
5 | one or two on the island here who got a bit for the that er damage with the storm . |
6 | That might be one reason why I suffer a bit of asthma now . |
7 | Just over a year ago everyone got a bit of a scare when an opinion poll showed that one third of the French agreed with the extremist ideas supported by Mr Le Pen — priority for the French ( as opposed to immigrants ) in jobs , housing , and family benefits ; the abolition of all income tax and its replacement with higher rates of VAT ; the reintroduction of the death penalty for murderers and drug traffickers ; and the expulsion of the immigrant long-term unemployed ; the banning of tourist visas for Arabs and Africans ( to stop illegal immigration ) , and so on . |