Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] a bit [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You , you mentioned also a bit once , when I came before , about the erm the , the lock for the cricket ground . |
| 2 | I came here a bit early this evening , and I did n't want to risk any of those clamps or fines or anything . |
| 3 | Erm I suppose got here a bit later you would have had more time to sort this lot out . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's OK , Maggie , I got here a bit late as well , but they were waiting , you did n't run away did you , loves ? |
| 5 | She had no intention of saying anything else ; in fact she had been quite undecided about answering him at all , but he looked just a bit too angry for outright defiance and he was decidedly bigger than she was . |
| 6 | I left just a bit less naive than when I 'd started , and a lot more confused ; in the end I fitted neither with the industrious working-class student body ( which was a large proportion ) nor with the socially confident middle class who did less work but had better cultural camouflage to disguise their deficiencies . |
| 7 | Non-existent until about I should n't think there was an a bus did come to the bottom of Road , I ca n't remember what was , it must have been about nineteen twenty I suppose something like that , it used to go to the bottom of Road and turn round there , but I never er my mother always used to say you 'd ruin the trade , the trade down well I do n't believe it did really er now I think the lack of transport now you 've hit something there , lack of transport there encouraged people to shop in Green rather to go down the town cos you could get anything off Green you know , you just think you 'd ju you , you smiled about the er butcher 's shops , the grocer 's shops , the cake shops , you could get the gents , you could get anything on Green the ironmonger shop , you need n't go anywhere else but , when they started transport er yes I think the buses had quite a bit gradually cos things that , you do n't think get things happening in this country overnight I mean , they grow on you do n't they ? |
| 8 | Had quite a bit recently . |