Example sentences of "[adv prt] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might calm you down a bit . ’ |
| 2 | She might have quietened down a bit by now , but you know what she 's like . ’ |
| 3 | Anyway , when things had calmed down a bit , Kathleen made a quiet suggestion . |
| 4 | ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased . |
| 5 | His trousers usually fell down a bit and he was observed to be always hitching them up by peculiar digs with his elbows . |
| 6 | ( I realised I had to cancel them , otherwise I 'd get the balance down a bit , then get clothes fever again . ) |
| 7 | ‘ For Top of the Pops , I make an effort to look glammed up but not too much — the knackered shorts tone the outfit down a bit ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was only six , so the art direction let it down a bit , really . |
| 9 | That slowed things down a bit and on the second day England made some progress through the wickets . |
| 10 | ‘ You do n't win any medals by questioning the Chairman 's judgement , Mark ’ said his personal assistant , advising him to ‘ tone it down a bit ’ in future Dublin plant reports . |
| 11 | ‘ Let me down a bit more ! ’ |
| 12 | Watered it down a bit , mind . |
| 13 | I just thinned it down a bit with this and that . ’ |
| 14 | He stamped up and down a bit , waiting for Miss Harker to return . |
| 15 | I put down a bit less than I had been drinking . |
| 16 | Let it cool down a bit . |
| 17 | I want to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 18 | Rather apprehensively I let the other girls use it , on the strict understanding that when they had finished with it they unplugged it and stowed it away somewhere out of sight of our two gauleiters , hopefully after it had cooled down a bit . |
| 19 | ‘ Down a bit . |
| 20 | Turn the gain down a bit and the reverb up and this translates into old Roy Buchanan — anyone remember Sweet Dreams ? |
| 21 | What do people mean when they say , ‘ Water it down a bit ’ ? |
| 22 | The boys were back in town to finish off their latest album of dinkety-bonk and decided to let their hair down a bit after a little light refreshment in the bar . |
| 23 | I might have to cut the cleaners ' hours down a bit , ’ says Chris . |
| 24 | ‘ Intimidation is his game , and at one stage I had to tell him to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 25 | Wright lost his infamous temper , picked up a booking and Monkou said : ‘ Intimidation is his game and at one stage I had to tell him to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 26 | When one of the police asked him to quieten the party down a bit , Willis hit him in the mouth and screamed , ‘ Get the fuck off my property ! ’ |
| 27 | Maybe he could settle down a bit now , quit high school , travel — and write . |
| 28 | The outlet into the Meloch was obvious once we had slashed down a bit of undergrowth , and so was the confluence with the Dee , but where , under the sizeable area euphemistically called the drive , was the tunnel ? |
| 29 | As manager Brian Clough returned from a week 's holiday in Majorca , his assistant Ron Fenton explained : ‘ We want Roy to slow down a bit . |
| 30 | So I gave up on the idea of girls until I was about fifteen , when I suppose my hormones calmed down a bit . |