Example sentences of "[adv] [art] bit [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 It 's just a bit of student fun .
32 I still wear little make-up , just a bit of lipstick and mascara and perhaps some eyeshadow .
33 Look how that flower is just a bit of wire hovering over her hat
34 Just a bit of wire .
35 He reported that Marlon Brando refused to play scenes with him during the shooting of Mutiny on the Bounty , although it 's never been quite clear if this story is n't perhaps just a bit of blarney from the Irish hellraiser .
36 Just a bit of stomach I feel like being kicked in the stomach by a like a horse but that 's about it .
37 Sorry that 's just a bit of advice
38 Just a bit of sugar in
39 All that space , all that pomp , for just a bit of food .
40 Yeah it 's just a bit of pain .
41 Mirth is close to creativity for to see the absurd in something is to twist reality around in a way creative thought is fashioned — a good jest is a delight and should be regarded as much more than just a bit of frivolity .
42 " There 's just a bit of enamel off it , and Mr Grover said …
43 I said oh do n't worry about it , it 's just a bit of confusion about
44 There was nothing around them , just a bit of scrub in the distance .
45 I ca n't remember , or was it just a bit of ground ?
46 If you 're really in favour of something , you vote for it twice but if you 're just a bit in favour of it you vote once .
47 There 's always a little bit of bottom down and there 's always a bit of top up , regardless .
48 It so happened that erm Tom tha who I was working with , see he was on Shift er Shift F and er there was always a bit of rivalry between the various shifts as er , as to erm , you know , who did the better job and all this sort of thing
49 Coming back to look at this erm er , as I say , very attractive building , again , and you can see there 's still a bit of work there .
50 The next message would spill over into the financial pages , though there is still a bit of theology — verses 4 to 8 .
51 Still a bit of diarrhoea in the mornings .
52 They were up there admiring the sunset but I wanted to stop while there was still a bit of light .
53 ‘ I 'm still a bit of novice where scrummaging is concerned .
54 They 'd left the plates lying around and the wine bottles on the floor , and there was still a bit of wine left in one of them .
55 There 's still a bit of repair work going on on the M forty , that 's between junctions one and one A between Denham and the M twenty five , with the outside lane closed in both directions .
56 You will need to set aside a bit of time to review the events of the last eight weeks .
57 But Bill 86 , admittedly , is mostly a bit of fine-tuning .
58 Significantly he added : ‘ There is also a bit of bottle in this team .
59 Erm we 've also , there 's also a bit of homework in there , do you remember that was given out erm one of the early sessions , and you will be expected to have erm thought quite a lot about that and to have worked through that .
60 Everything else is a bonus , but it 's also a bit like hunting round the first circuit safely in the Grand National — you know it 's the next circuit that matters . ’
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