Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] bit [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have won a bit of space if your opponent can not play into it without eventually being captured . |
| 2 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 3 | You will find that this can not be pulled out in error ( who has not picked a bit of wool out only to find that it was the marker ! ) and it can either be pulled up tight later as a permanent marker or pulled out and used again . |
| 4 | Erm , actually on reflection , having seen the bit of disaster that occurred because erm unfortunately Freda did n't get the phone call until early Christmas day morning off her daughter , to say that instead of them coming up to here to see them that something had happened in London , could they go down to her , so she was prepared to do us a half an hour at half past one and then she was going to drive to London ! |
| 5 | Who can honestly say they have never done a bit of work off-the-books or used the services of somebody who was doing so ? |
| 6 | Oh I 've done a bit of drawing . |
| 7 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 8 | At Barclays de Zoete Wedd , whose report on the sector is due out this week , analyst Jane Anscombe points out that there are currently some worries on the advertising revenue front , and that some television people have seen a bit of pressure . |
| 9 | The business has even made a bit of money this year . |
| 10 | It has n't made a bit of difference |
| 11 | Cos I think he would have made a bit of difference up front there wi er er cos they would have the defence |
| 12 | ‘ I say , darling , you 've got the bit of plaster off my finger . ’ |
| 13 | Good God , yes I know it 's been very , very heavy here too , there were certain areas over here certainly needed a bit of rain , but now there 's certainly did n't need it at all |
| 14 | She must be ill — perhaps she 's still got a bit of fever . ’ |
| 15 | Half a tick — I 've got a bit of bumph somewhere with the drill in case of air raids . ’ |
| 16 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 17 | You may if you 've got a be , if you 've got a bit of knowledge of it . |
| 18 | got a bit of shopping and did various other things erm |
| 19 | I have n't got to smoke pot , but I do and I think that 's more security than anything , knowing that you 've got a bit of pot which you can put down and you can say : ‘ Oh , I do n't want none of that today , I 'm not in the mood for it . ’ |
| 20 | Well if they 're not left continually on their own they 've got a bit of company have n't they ? |
| 21 | Got a bit of interference there |
| 22 | Look their burgers are looking it 's got a bit of fat on there . |
| 23 | You 've got a bit of colour back now . |
| 24 | Width is n't too important , as long as you 've got a bit of elbow room : we made ours so that it finished at around one metre wide . |
| 25 | And they they you know if you 've got a bit of style and and maturity about you that will go down well . |
| 26 | She ai n't got a bit of style has she ? |
| 27 | It 's alright , got a bit of water . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've probably got a bit of cold coming on . |
| 29 | He 's got a bit of cold that 's all . |
| 30 | Probably er you know people 's probably got a bit of money so they do n't need to break in to anybody . |