Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] [art] bit " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You would n't make a bad pioneer if you had a bit more time for practice .
2 When we started to go there at first there were a fella , a fella from Keighley who was a weaver and he bought a bit of land at the side of the er , the side of the chapel , or was it the school ?
3 I do n't , know when you see me just now I was washing the car and I missed a bit .
4 You 're not well enough , you just sit in a chair there 's some cake in the tin if he wants a bit of cake !
5 But really , what , all they wanted to do was save face from the hospital because it was n't our fault but she used a bit of you know , we wo n't embarrass the hospital we 'll say
6 I do n't know if it 's erm tt a con cos it seems a bit unbelievable , nicking a street .
7 It was in the February 1992 issue and it looked a bit complicated but so do most things before you actually have a go .
8 and records himself going for a piss but he does a bit , it cuts out when he 's actually pissing but he 's going on about now the biros are getting in the way of my knob here
9 I welcome the right and learned Gentleman to the Dispatch Box — I did not think that he was going to answer this question as he looked a bit tired sitting on the Bench there .
10 In first gear from a standing start , on the level , they ca n't make more than about fifteen miles an hour and they scream a bit doing that .
11 He was dressed in a dark suit with a gleaming white shirt and he looked every bit as magnificent in his role of business tycoon as he did in more casual clothes .
12 It 's real cold against my skin and I jump a bit , but I reckon it looks really good .
13 See , Mum and I looked a bit up in my book
14 " I do n't think it makes much difference where we do a bit of scratching , " he said .
15 Yes it 's when you see British Telecom repainting all their vans with this silly new logo that you get a bit twitchy do n't you ?
16 You give her a piece of cake and you get a bit of lip !
17 ‘ Right now , I 'm going to fill the big bowl with nice hot water and you are going to have a scrub and I want every bit of you to be clean , mind , including your hair . ’
18 Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , explained : ‘ Quite a few historians have written about this building but it seems a bit odd that none of them knew the exact date it opened .
19 up until then I still was n't too worried , but I think then it started to dawn on me that this was n't going to be much fun and I felt a bit scared .
20 I mean you ca n't claw the money the back if you get a bit short in five or ten years time .
21 She gives me a little smile and I feel a bit better .
22 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 .
23 " I think Uncle rather hoped I 'd live in the two rooms at the back but they smell a bit too powerfully of monkey and parrot so I 've moved up into his flat .
24 ‘ I thought 14 years was a fair spell but I felt a bit sad and it will be hard to let go but I am preparing myself for that .
25 There 's this blummin huge bridge so I stop a bit and look over the edge .
26 Each day we covered a set area and we marked the bit we 'd covered with sticks .
27 There was no violation of the code because they had a bit of fun out there on the field .
28 I had made Lucy take off her anorak so she looked a bit less like an urban guerrilla , even though the T-shirt she was wearing underneath — ‘ Rats Have Rights ’ — was a bit of a giveaway , or maybe I was just paranoid .
29 Personally I could n't even understand the titles , but Kenneth is a tenacious ( not to say obsessive ) man once he gets the bit between his teeth .
30 You see exactly what you want to see when your in love and you ignore the bits you do n't like
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