Example sentences of "[vb past] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorcas sat and twiddled a bit of wire aimlessly . |
| 2 | Well it was part of their course I think , I , they did n't they paid the full cost of it , they contributed a bit , but I think Colin stood |
| 3 | I picked a fish-louse from it as it lay on the unhooking mat , dabbed a bit of waterproof ointment on a small wound on its flank , then slipped it back into the water . |
| 4 | The covers rustled and her tightly held muscles loosened a bit , only to clench tightly again as he chuckled . |
| 5 | I looked at it mys I changed a bit |
| 6 | Endless cups of coffee helped a bit but what a relief it was to see the first pale streaks of dawn creeping across the sky . |
| 7 | That helped a bit did it ? |
| 8 | Only the two ‘ star ’ dressing rooms had an extension in Clarissa 's theatre , and the Stage Door Keeper grumbled a bit as he climbed the stairs to call her down to his box by the Stage Door . |
| 9 | Whenever Roydale put his nose in front , Fringe found a bit extra , but it seemed there was n't much between them , and with the end of the wood chippings in sight the contest was still undecided . |
| 10 | Well , what I found a bit erm remarkable really , in the book |
| 11 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 12 | She tried her legs next , and they moved a bit within the straps , but her boots prevented her from pulling her legs through the loops . |
| 13 | you see I moved a bit more now but and I I 've still got good hearing er apart from this ear here , this ear , I ca n't hear so well , quite so well , this side , you see so I always have to say excuse me while I , hang on while I turn off the television , you see , and then they have to wait a minute till I turn it off and then what I do is because I have this phone extension put in |
| 14 | and it just moved a bit and I went in again , I looked at the window and they moved again |
| 15 | And you need it fastened a bit higher . |
| 16 | Although it looked quite smart and had a wonderful aroma of apples and pears , there were very few bubbles and it tasted a bit like dry cider or sparkling apple juice . |
| 17 | A wonderful pale gold colour we felt it tasted a bit like a dry sherry . |
| 18 | Surely nobody at home would notice if the bread , just once , tasted a bit different ? |
| 19 | Mind you , this fellow jibbed a bit when they offered him two hundred to knock off a bloke who would n't play along with them , but not for long . |
| 20 | I only caught a bit of it but he said that he turned up for training and was surprised to be called in and told about the deal . |
| 21 | I caught a bit of it on and we sat down and went to sleep . |
| 22 | Everyone got up on stage for the final encore and launched themselves into a shambolic but passionate rendering of ‘ Wild Thing ’ which involved a bit of hot action in the shape of LOX from Kingmaker snogging an alarmed PATRICK from the Kitchens during the chorus . |
| 23 | It was about er the press and unemployment and it was about the way the effects of unemployment were written about in well broadsheet and popular newspapers , it also involved a bit of a study where I gave people some articles to show which had been typed up in a fairly anonymous format and , and got them to rate them in various ways and that was in , let me see , nineteen eighty three long long time ago |
| 24 | He rejected the argument that keeping the facility for steers in Barnard Castle would be costly , saying it only involved a bit of paperwork by one of the officials at the mart . |
| 25 | I 'll tell you what sir , he said , I 'll write it down for … here his eyes narrowed a bit , he hesitated , you can … |
| 26 | Mrs Totteridge staggered a bit . |
| 27 | In the back of one of my homemade guitars I used a bit of thin foam , rolled up tight , to hold a battery in place ; then I had a brainwave to use a piece of this and lay it across the springs , between them and the rear plate . |
| 28 | We used a bit of sign language , and that and ‘ goo' shot ’ was the only communication we had — and all we needed , because we were golfers . |
| 29 | Those were the only times when we used a bit of coal . |
| 30 | OLYMPIC gold medallist Chris Boardman used a bit of pedal power to launch a new Merseyside surgery . |