Example sentences of "[adv] [art] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was what Morley 's reportage implied that aroused such ire , especially the bit about bad choices , and crack perhaps not being the worst of them . |
| 2 | For when what goes without saying , especially the bit about translating thoughts into spoken or written signs and then back again , is actually said , it begins to lose its air of obviousness . |
| 3 | I did n't like the sound of any of this — especially the bit about plunging the old head in the cold , clear waters of baptism . |
| 4 | Especially the bit about balance . ’ |
| 5 | when I watch it now I get scared , especially the bit when she goes like that and he goes aargh I get , I get scared . |
| 6 | It 's lovely Steve , especially the bit |
| 7 | So the bit was taken out of his mouth and put back in the proper place , and Wendy continued to calmly trot him around with the other horses ; and Huckleberry kept putting his tongue over the bit again , and again , and again . |
| 8 | Either hydraulic ‘ bladders ’ or hydraulic pistons expand to grip the sides of the well , then retract so the bit can advance . |
| 9 | So the bit of the sea that is near to the moon has more water in it than the bits of the sea which are further away from the moon . |
| 10 | Yet the most unnerving revelation of this book is less the bit that shocked Mr Teicher — his colleagues ' attempts to make him a scapegoat in the Irangate arms-for-hostages scandal — and more his portrayal of the muddle that characterises America 's dealings with this explosive region . |
| 11 | It 's only the bit of to stuffed down my ear hole . |
| 12 | do n't let's , do n't let's try and assume the , all we 're , all we 're trying to do is to gather together the bit that we can put into the pot , and to present it in a logical fashion , to say , if this , then we belief that , and if that , then we believe the other , |
| 13 | ‘ I thought I might go upstream a bit and wash off some of this dirt , ’ she said evenly , fingering her hair distastefully . |
| 14 | It 's amazing how much a bit of good food and healthy exercise can sharpen the mind . |
| 15 | However , at one stage , one of Tony 's roadies — apparently a bit of an electronics whizzkid — wired the guitar to send the signal from one of the sockets to a transformer and into a mixer , while the other went straight to the amp . |
| 16 | 0–2 ticks You are naturally a bit anxious about life — look again at the particular areas you ticked . |
| 17 | Such activity is naturally a bit messy , and those left-over bits of bedding that litter the area around the sett , within the spoil heaps and down the tunnels , are a dead give-away . |
| 18 | I was never the focus of an actual focused ill-wishing , merely a bit part player in Bernard 's drama , but look what happened to me ! |
| 19 | Besides , she told herself firmly , this time the sea was merely a bit choppy . |
| 20 | erm I saw in the newspaper , as I am sure you probably did , last week that the government has just devoted , I think , nine million pounds over the next few years to develop curricula and methods of training teachers in schools , and I think it 's tremendously important that that does n't become merely a bit more science of one form or another . |
| 21 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 22 | We went down a hundred feet , perhaps a bit more . |
| 23 | As to Mr. Cox himself , we obtained very little information that we did not already have , although perhaps a bit more detailed . |
| 24 | Along the inland part of the fissure ordinary Hawaiian-type eruptions will take place , with lava being emitted quietly , and perhaps a bit of fire-fountaining . |
| 25 | He was of about my own age , perhaps a bit older , pleasant looking and cheerful . |
| 26 | About a kilogram , perhaps a bit more . |
| 27 | Of course , ten p.m. on a winter 's night , when one was a lady of leisure expected to be indoors enjoying a meal which someone else had cooked , was perhaps a bit much . |
| 28 | It was perhaps a bit thicker than she would have liked , but the weight was about right . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't really know much about Doctor Reid , ’ I admitted , ‘ except that he seems to have a great sense of humour and is — well , perhaps a bit unconventional . ’ |
| 30 | It seems to me that quite a few of our senior British players have had to put up with more than their fair share of criticism in recent years , when perhaps a bit of encouragement might have been more appropriate . |