Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | America has attacked the bit of the Bank expressly designed to promote private enterprise in the developing countries . |
| 2 | The reduction of the horse 's anxiety through movement and calm handling , not only solved the bit problem for that day but also prevented the horse from establishing an undesirable form of behaviour to present on other occasions when it felt anxious . |
| 3 | Although the SSC , like most things , could probably have been designed a bit better and made to cost a bit less , physics dictates its overall scale . |
| 4 | You have won a bit of space if your opponent can not play into it without eventually being captured . |
| 5 | With a career spanning seventeen years and almost as many albums , it 's hard to deny that Motorhead have earned a bit of a breather , but those that feared the sun and the swimming pools of their self-imposed LA exile might dilute the band 's full-on thrust can finally rest easy . |
| 6 | I think a medical problem different say for instance for myself I got an awful bash on the nose playing badminton and they thought it was broken , however it mended and I wished it had broken because its mended a bit , but I do not believe in spending money on cosmetic surgery because I think if you make the best of what you have and think of all the people were mutilated by disease |
| 7 | Would she like to spend her days with a woman who had already claimed a bit of her heart ? |
| 8 | The crop is harvested a bit green to avoid the seed being cast , and made like hay . |
| 9 | I should think two years , you know , when the restrictions got lifted a bit , so it got better , yeah . |
| 10 | had come a bit loose |
| 11 | He said oh I 've come a bit too early have I ? |
| 12 | The Irish management team of manager Noel Murphy , captain Phil Danaher and coach Ciaran Fitzgerald will slip into New Zealand hoping the All Blacks will be so concerned with their tilts at the World XV , the Australians in the Bledisloe Cup and the South Africans on their August tour that they might just be caught a bit unawares when Ireland arrive . |
| 13 | Right well just that er it 's been resolved a bit since I handled it cos er got this meeting set up which I do n't know whether , whether you need to come , it 's on the second of February |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It has always looked a bit ramshackle , with its claustrophobic nets , which were gas-lit until the 1960s . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought we might have looked a bit stiff 'cos it was n't our usual type of audience . ’ |
| 18 | Old Jim had looked a bit got down , he thought ; I 'll cheer them up , and we 'll all have a drink . |
| 19 | She 'd have looked a bit different , I can tell , from what she was like lying up there with her hair all cut off . " |
| 20 | I had to admit that the young men leaving that room all looked a bit shattered and one almost reeled out , holding his mouth with both hands . |
| 21 | Looked a bit like Darth Vader without the cloak . |
| 22 | We made that up for the boys , but if you prefer … ’ neighed Mr Crumwallis , congratulating himself on insisting on something that at least looked a bit special . |
| 23 | Most of the Leeds fans we passed going down the M40 looked a bit unsure of the sight — it 's not every match day you see three guys in Leeds clobber driving a green porsche with their Leeds scarf in the back window . |
| 24 | The striker , perhaps because he was braced for the offside whistle ( it had looked a bit that way ) , was less than decisive and allowed Michael Watt to save at his feet . |
| 25 | Looked a bit erm , senile did n't he ? |
| 26 | Nick had his sunglasses on , he must have looked a bit touched . |
| 27 | Well I do n't know it 's just what we liked at the time you know , we liked anything that was considered a bit way out then , you know |
| 28 | ‘ It 's considered a bit austere by some . ’ |
| 29 | Less than twenty years ago , Australian wine was considered a bit of a joke . |
| 30 | Our matches with local rivals like Miserden ( Slad Exiles ) , Painswick , Bisley , Birdlip and Cranham usually carried a bit of added competitiveness . |