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 |