Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leeds fans started to look a bit more worried … they had 4–5 shots from the edge of the area … fortunately they are so crap not one crossed the line inside the penalty area ! |
| 2 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 3 | Her Majesty 's dogs did make a bit of a dent in the corgi image when one of them bit the Queen 's hand during a fight last year , but like King Charles the second and his spaniels , the Queen is inseparable from her corgis . |
| 4 | Early fertility treatments were mainly mechanical , like fallopian reconstruction , artificial insemination , concentrating sperm which had a low count and then , when things started getting a bit flashy , in vitro fertilisation . ’ |
| 5 | But things started going a bit wrong before she could start . |
| 6 | Most people agreed that things had gone a bit far when he told the Church , in 1982 , to ‘ Face north-west whenever possible . ’ |
| 7 | Over that time , things had got a bit more relaxed between them . |
| 8 | Things had got a bit out of proportion . |
| 9 | but erm there was a bit of jealousy in the la licensees started getting a bit er er |
| 10 | I asked Leppard to write them for me , because I felt that the standard cadenzas had become a bit worn out . ’ |
| 11 | Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall . |
| 12 | I should think two years , you know , when the restrictions got lifted a bit , so it got better , yeah . |