Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [pers pn] [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | I do n't , know when you see me just now I was washing the car and I missed a bit . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | It was in the February 1992 issue and it looked a bit complicated but so do most things before you actually have a go . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's real cold against my skin and I jump a bit , but I reckon it looks really good . |
| 8 | See , Mum and I looked a bit up in my book |
| 9 | You give her a piece of cake and you get a bit of lip ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She gives me a little smile and I feel a bit better . |
| 13 | " 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | And on the Dixon fight , the British , European and Commonwealth champion said : ‘ I gave him a taste but he got a bit feisty by trying to hit me back and I took him out . |
| 16 | The luck began to run the other way and we made a bit of a fortune that six months . |
| 17 | It was , of course , hilarious in itself but then I got this bit of smoked salmon ( coloured red of course ! ) and draped it across her upper lip and it looked a bit like a moustache . |
| 18 | We only saw the adult shearwaters at sea and they looked a bit like a small Manx shearwater , but with a brownish tinge to the upper parts . |
| 19 | You kept this powder in a little linen bag and you sprinkled a bit now and then in their bait . ’ |