Example sentences of "was [adv] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , she told herself firmly , this time the sea was merely a bit choppy . |
| 2 | In any case , my father was obviously a bit of an embarrassment to his brother : Harold Swan pressed home the point that my father might have a fit during a performance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was perhaps a bit thicker than she would have liked , but the weight was about right . |
| 5 | but I said that you know eighteen might be a push but I would n't be surprised if we got twelve or fourteen at that time of course we had n't actually had any education events cos the one that we scheduled has been cancelled so I was perhaps a bit naive about how many people actually turn out to these things |
| 6 | Nigel was only a bit of a bastard and far too squeamish to stoop to murder . |
| 7 | There was only a bit of spare paper left and some of it had got streaks of cheese-grease on , so I went over to the newsagent 's stall and bought an exercise book for 35p . |
| 8 | ‘ It was only a bit of a game , Auntie Dilys . |
| 9 | cos she was only a bit then . |
| 10 | and she was only a bit older ? |
| 11 | Franca decided that Alison had probably been drinking on the plane and was already a bit tipsy . |
| 12 | The children had brought in a number of dead barn owls , so there was already a bit interest . |
| 13 | He was momentarily a bit taken aback . |
| 14 | Kinderszenen I felt was somehow a bit disappointing compared to the studied and elegiac reading of Schubert 's great B flat Sonata . |
| 15 | Basically it grew out of the idea that what the West represented , and the English middle class best of all , was something to emulate , look up to , admire — all the rest was just a bit rude and best if it politely disappeared . |
| 16 | He was coaxing me to walk a bit further without having to carry me , by promising that it was just a bit further . |
| 17 | It was just a bit sad the way it all ended . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Although George Graham is not condoning what I 've done , he knows it was just a bit of over-exhuberance and a bit of silliness . |
| 19 | No harm in him , he was just a bit of an eejit . |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose the newspaper which started it would say that it was just a bit of fun . |
| 21 | I thought I was just a bit hyper , like everyone else . |
| 22 | ‘ I was just a bit taken aback , that 's all . |
| 23 | I was just a bit stoned at the time and it all poured out … . |
| 24 | I was just a bit jealous , I suppose . |
| 25 | His brother often slept in and it was just a bit more noticeable this morning . |
| 26 | So I was just a bit of sport . |
| 27 | My mother sent it from London and it was just a bit too big . |
| 28 | ‘ It was just a bit of crack , but curiously enough it gave me my first taste of playing in public , something I had not yet done back home . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ It was just a bit of fun , ’ says Brannen . |
| 30 | I was just a bit too short of time on , on Friday to That 's about all I need . |