Example sentences of "[adv prt] a bit [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | United gave everything they 'd got … they matched the big boys in effort and endeavour … down a bit on speed and power but that 's what you 'd expect … |
| 2 | In the next court Geoffrey Turton was performing with his head , pushing the ball down a bit of drainpipe . |
| 3 | The outlet into the Meloch was obvious once we had slashed down a bit of undergrowth , and so was the confluence with the Dee , but where , under the sizeable area euphemistically called the drive , was the tunnel ? |
| 4 | And then it eased up a bit at dinner time and then it started again about two o'clock . |
| 5 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 6 | William 's best plan now would be to get himself established in a job , save up a bit of money , then get married and move into his own little house . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't doubt but what Alfred 'll rig up a bit of shelter . |
| 8 | She insists on tacking up a bit of tinsel and so on and I see she 's done the same for you . |
| 9 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 10 | As though trying to use up a bit of space , the garage ( for a single car ) was situated a hundred yards from the house , up a separate track . |
| 11 | Then I picked up a bit of naan bread and mopped up my curry sauce . |
| 12 | We say well pick up a bit of experience here |
| 13 | All he had to do was stroll down to Underwoods and pick up a bit of dynercaprol and potassium chloride . |
| 14 | Are you thinking about putting up a bit of holly this year ? |
| 15 | You know what these publishers are like : they 'll do anything to whip up a bit of interest in a book . |
| 16 | Maybe do it again , order up a bit of nosh and champagne . |
| 17 | her husband died she 'd picked out a bit of land all this and I borrowed this and one thing and another , so well they never found a penny ! |
| 18 | Yes that thing that trickles out a bit of water . |
| 19 | The stages were so enormous — about 60 feet across — that you had to poke out a bit of noise just to make yourself heard . |
| 20 | SUCH has been the scale of reopenings ( not to mention survivals ) of lines and stations in the 1980s that to put matters in perspective it is necessary to go back a bit in history . |
| 21 | " To make sense of it all , I must go back a bit in history , " he said . |