Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] a [adj] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you could lighten up a little bit . ’ |
| 2 | Well , we were n't having that , so we stood around , we said ‘ Well , we thought we 'd just wait around a little bit , you know , just in case they might want to say goodbye to us . ’ |
| 3 | He said that the woman in the house had only a table and television , and had spent the night before polishing the table so that it would bring in a wee bit extra to clear her debt . |
| 4 | Earlier on this week all that cloud was coming in from the north-west , now you can see it coming across from the west and as the weekend goes along , it will come in more from the south-west , so it will warm up a little bit . |
| 5 | He , he just might grow up a little bit |
| 6 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |
| 7 | Might be about When we start work we could stay up a little bit later . |
| 8 | Right can you just move back a little bit more so I can actually |
| 9 | Probably that knocked Peter back a little bit , we 'll read on a little bit later but Peter fully abandons Jesus let's face it . |
| 10 | The , the U K pension charge will er er er go up to the extent that pensionable salaries go up , there 's a standard surplus being amortized au fait gently rising pension , I mean there 's obviously there 's an X percent of pensionable salaries is what the will tell you will have to provide and er er not much more at the moment er therefore the charge will go up a little bit but not , not gradually and it 's not much . |
| 11 | Let's go back a little bit . |
| 12 | So therefore your team worker might come down a little bit score just to add on to your Chairman 's skills . |
| 13 | ‘ Maybe we should back off a little bit … ? ’ |
| 14 | I was gon na get out a little bit earlier |
| 15 | Now I know erm following a fairly recent er er er case in the house of lords that the courts are er entitled to rely on what ministers say in debate but perhaps the minister could er spell out a little bit more clearly the apparent discrepancy between what he said in his speech and what is on the face of these orders and indeed why it is that the orders in r relation to banking and financial services , adopts a different phraseology er to that used in the orders relating to insurance and building societies . |
| 16 | Yes you would you just wonder whether Forest back four might just push up a little bit higher and let the ball carry through to the keeper every time . |
| 17 | said could they help out a little bit for teachers you know ? |
| 18 | Well you might find out a little bit later on , an I 'll also have live music on the show from the Old Vic in , Andrew 's gon na be down there with Edward , it 's all to come . |