Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] a [adj] bit " in BNC.
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1 | GENEVIEVE CAUDEN ( STUDENT ) : A bullet just grazed me a little bit . |
2 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
3 | I found myself a nice bit of grass with a backrest against a tree trunk and waited for the show to begin . |
4 | He said : ‘ The van was not there at 6pm but I noticed it a little bit later . |
5 | well any way look , if I made you a thin bit of steel straight across the centre like that |
6 | The head of the family when I first remember them was William Henry Bayles who was Grandmother 's cousin and the father of a lady who taught me a little bit of music . |
7 | What I would like to do now is to reintroduce Phill who addressed us a little bit earlier this morning who 's going to tell us a little bit more about enterprise client server solutions . |
8 | And I had three kings and two queens , which sobered me a little bit . |
9 | We blitzed ourselves a little bit I think you know , back pass we talked about , no back passes , ball gambles and everything , in he goes , two free headers basically . |
10 | She put the onus quite honestly straight back on to parents , er it reminded me a little bit like er of the furore that she created about you know there are so many people being mugged , well is n't it their own fault that they go into dark places . |
11 | A kind choirman gave me a threepenny bit , so my total spending money for the day amounted to tenpence . |
12 | Instead of buying us a present , from erm , my mum bought me a few bits and pieces when they went to France . |
13 | They were er anybody that knows about moleskin , and there very heavy material er and apart from being hard-wearing , I suppose they , in the winter time , they gave them a wee bit of warmth in their legs etcetera . |
14 | And it but the erm the goats apparently were no problem today , they just stayed on and gave them a few bits and pieces you know so that was fair enough . |
15 | When she qualified for Barcelona we gave her a nice bit of sirloin and two turkey drumsticks . ’ |
16 | In my , in my day probably someone did it a little bit off that , different |
17 | Andre Agassi ( above ) , equally well known for his sense of decorum , said : ‘ To be honest , it kind of irritated me a little bit . |
18 | it stopped it dead in its track , yeah , could n't get to rewire it after it though it snapped it a little bit . |