Example sentences of "a bit [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 2 | Many people reckon we are all a bit loony spending all our spare time going round the non-League grounds of the M/SV but I can think of one really good reason for doing it . |
| 3 | As the B-1R is , after all , designed to be racked , it looks a bit daft sitting on top of the 4x10 , even if it does allow you to whack all the necessary connections together in about thirty seconds flat . |
| 4 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 5 | I welcome the right and learned Gentleman to the Dispatch Box — I did not think that he was going to answer this question as he looked a bit tired sitting on the Bench there . |
| 6 | What Bet and Alec thought of a packed house replete with Manc ravers is anyone 's guess but we are told that this event , which was a joint Most Excellent and A Bit Ginger promotion , had the Mancunian cognoscenti rocking over the most famous beermats in Britain . |
| 7 | It was a bit cheaper living here in an older neighbourhood than in the heart of the city , so she had n't had to tap into what she 'd earned as companion to Anna Sabatini . |
| 8 | He had always been a bit that way had Rufus , manifestly to be seen to be doing all right for himself , successful , forging ahead , accompanied by the best-looking girl possible . |
| 9 | And some of Sir Emmanuel 's guests were a bit that way , too . |
| 10 | And erm you work out whether your preference is very strongly this way or a bit this way or a bit that way . |
| 11 | ‘ No , love , you should have said he was a bit that way . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mr got his handkerchief in his top pocket , you see , my father always used to only he 's standing a bit that way . |
| 14 | I 'm a bit that way about garden gnomes . |
| 15 | Can we shift this table a bit that way or other way . |
| 16 | a bit that way . |
| 17 | I like a book token cos I always feel a bit guilty buying books you know , cos I 've got so many |
| 18 | But he was in the middle of a restaurant he said and I ca n't , think he felt a bit awkward speaking |
| 19 | Video ram like most memory , is usually organised in 8-bit wide words , or bytes , but interpreted in a bit oriented manner . |
| 20 | OR there 's Gazza ( Paul Gascoigne ) when you grab him by the testicles and say ‘ Can you speak in a bit lower voice ? ’ |
| 21 | It 's a bit pointless writing in them . |
| 22 | Well golf clubs erm I mean it 's a bit limited advertising in a in a market er on this particular thing to look at . |
| 23 | It 's a bit dubious voting for people that you |
| 24 | It 's a bit dark mum ! |
| 25 | That 's a bit anti-social mummy ! |
| 26 | In and out in an hour , a bit healthy exercise , and the folk of Coll avenged ! ’ |
| 27 | Sounds a bit rough dad ! |
| 28 | Sue Monk of the National Council for One Parent Families , said : ‘ These comments are a bit rich coming from a woman with a wealthy husband and no money worries . ’ |
| 29 | This might seem a bit rich coming from a man who has spent most of his career luxuriating in material wealth as one of the US 's most enduring entertainers . |
| 30 | And you 've done them a bit all green have n't you , why do n't you do some of erm |