Example sentences of "[conj] every bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one stride he was against her and he caught her to him so savagely that every bit of breath seemed to leave her body . |
| 2 | Her mouth was everywhere , biting me and sucking my mouth and kissing me , and her fingers pinched and stroked her legs coiled round my legs until every bit of me was throbbing and burning and twitching and I was only conscious of never wanting it to stop . |
| 3 | Alfa Proteo , better looking than the SZ and every bit as likely to make production |
| 4 | Aged 34 , Mr Gates is bright , opinionated , decisive and every bit as sure of himself as one would expect from a man who was a billionaire by the age of 30 . |
| 5 | It is completely ‘ straight ’ and tempos strike one as just right ; Stokowski is steadier than Reiner both in the scherzo and the finale , and every bit as intense , if not more so , in the opening Largo . |
| 6 | And every bit as good . ’ |
| 7 | He identifies these as ‘ material divisions which are every bit as ‘ real ’ and every bit as pertinent as those which arise out of the relations between classes ' ( Saunders , 1984 : 207 ) . |
| 8 | She had a tension about her like a strung bow , and every bit as lethal , and she had a piercing beauty — why had he never marked it , he who had known her nearly three years ? that made his heart contract as he looked at her . |
| 9 | Well the difference was like moving from purgatory into heaven really , because er in the Nissan hut I had one tap of cold water , that 's all , every bit of water had to be heated on a gas stove , and every bit of water for a bath had to be heated in an old fashioned er boiler in which you lit the fire under and of course when you came here we had a ni an electric cooker , er straight away |
| 10 | He can record memorable rounds , personal triumphs and every bit of his progress in this bound journal mind he does n't cheat . |
| 11 | But then Stuart meets a little girl who is fully human but every bit as short as Stuart , and his heart is lost to her . |
| 12 | It is said that on this view the writers mechanically wrote what God said , and the readers do not need to think , because every bit of truth is presented on a plate . |
| 13 | because every bit of encouragement you |
| 14 | His wife , Magda , who worked hard at looking like a gipsy , was a deep-voiced lady who only did the washing up when every bit of crockery and cutler had been used . |
| 15 | Fran smoothed her notes out on the table , willing her hands to stay still when every bit of her was shaking . |