Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a bit [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | And it looked as if she had been stabbed with a weapon that had a central rib ; the wound gaped quite a bit in the middle . |
2 | On the higher literary level it rubbished quite a bit of Hardy and much of D.H.Lawrence . |
3 | And that caused quite a bit of resentment , I can tell you — the Americans and the Japanese competing for our future . |
4 | Now maybe the person that ran the book did n't really need to use all that , so at at the end of a a year , say for instance , they 'd quite a bit of money lying on that that black book . |
5 | Each of us consumed quite a bit of time on the complications . |
6 | So you played quite a bit in the classics during training . |
7 | Pouncey was Vercoe 's squeeze , and so he cut loose a bit with the cattle prod . ’ |
8 | In the 1980s I raised quite a bit of money for Sainsbury 's charities . |
9 | And you spent quite a bit of it , that , say on sweets . |
10 | But peter pulled away a bit in the second round ( Thomson 71 ; Thomas 74 ) and he won by four strokes . |
11 | I began to use the mornings of those days when I was on evening watch for these little excursions , and covered quite a bit of territory — Leighton Buzzard , High Wycombe , Buckingham , Dunstable , Newport Pagnell , Woburn , Banbury , Northampton , Aylesbury , Bedford , and even as far as Whipsnade and the Chiltern Hills . |
12 | I knew quite a bit about the war and the suffering of the peoples of Europe . |
13 | It contained quite a bit of information — the position of the police telephones , the infirmaries , the hospitals , fire brigade , fire boxes , and so on . |
14 | oh well , we ca n't very well be whether Julie said she liked boys to go out with her , go , and we provisionally booked , I think it was the last week in February , we got quite a bit on , I said er if I ca n't make it I 'll ring you , but then , oh that was it she rung me up , and she said Lynnie |
15 | ‘ We also did quite a bit of work with Kevin Killen . |
16 | I had it in an Anvil case , and a shipping crate built for it which cost almost as much as the amp did originally , and it got thrown or dropped real badly , did quite a bit of damage to it . |
17 | Mind you , it looks as if they did quite a bit of homework and know kelly is a converted winger … |
18 | Did quite a bit of it |
19 | He had quite a bit on Harvey , a Kennedy Catholic who had been ‘ the good friend ’ of the late Emma Kerr . |
20 | So what , elder children had res had quite a bit of responsibility ? |
21 | ‘ Our final position showed that we had quite a bit of initiative and stamina . |
22 | ‘ We had quite a bit of success . |
23 | She had quite a bit of work done . |
24 | So that 's why I 've been rather , er , you know , had quite a bit of ex experience in the court . |
25 | Fareda , I 'd like to come back to you because you said that you had quite a bit of information from people currently in Kuwait . |
26 | and er it was n't bad , the snow was n't very good to start with but it snowed on the Thursday and then we , you know , we skied quite a bit after that , but poor girl she got sciatica on the Wednesday |