Example sentences of "do [vb infin] a [adj] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , have , having that criticism gentlemen , for which I apologize , I , I , I think it is a most useful , but I do think a little bit of future , holding on might be helpful . |
| 2 | that do explain a little bit about Abbey Life products and also have a copy of as well erm they might find that of help before I give them a call . |
| 3 | So I have that advantage , that er , I do know a little bit about you . |
| 4 | Mind you , I did buy a fair bit of vegetables . |
| 5 | Erm they really do look a little bit drab , a little bit grey . |
| 6 | Now we did have a little bit of that , I would say er leave it leave it till you 've got the other stuff pretty well sorted out . |
| 7 | ‘ And all we shall have to do is to stick together and confess that this dreadful accident did happen a little bit earlier and we all felt devastated but there was a full house and we all felt we owed it to the public that the show should go on . |
| 8 | Conventional cloches , while they should last several years if stored carefully , do require a fair bit of storage space . |
| 9 | Moving on to Mr Curtis , I do n't want to dwell and re re er restate the the difference I had with Mr Curtis this morning , but again he did start a little bit of a red herring running by talking about the major commitment for retailing facilities , er there is a major commitment for retailing facilities in Greater York , er a degree of all provision . |
| 10 | It does lack a little bit of sharpness this one . |
| 11 | I think a bit more contrast added to it would help it does lack a little bit of contrast . |
| 12 | Erm yeah I , I , it 's the idea 's there but I think it does lack a little bit of impact . |
| 13 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 14 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 15 | Yeah , he does play a little bit . |