Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] a bit " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think you 'd better stay a bit longer and Mary and I will take you home . ’
2 God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know
3 Initially she 'd just had a bit of a fever and a very dry throat .
4 She 'd already made a bit of a name for herself , only locally but you know what the Germans are about music , and the district party bosses liked romantic pieces so she became the star turn at their more respectable booze-ups .
5 Then she rode home feeling a bit ashamed that she had n't been as brave as she felt sure a proper Brownie ought to have been in face of danger .
6 ‘ But I am not bitter over how Sam Hammam handled things even though it had all become a bit of a nightmare for me .
7 Daddy was going to rebuild it with his own hands and had already done a bit to it when I was young .
8 Would she like to spend her days with a woman who had already claimed a bit of her heart ?
9 Green insisted the artist had always to scramble a bit to get an ideal vantage position .
10 If Mike had even got a bit on me I said I 'd have bloody killed him !
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