Example sentences of "bit [adj] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm driving along and there was somebody coming round and it was a bit narrow and so I hung back and let him come through |
| 2 | Laurel Queen took her career score to 17 from 45 outings in the claimer , trainer Jack Berry shrugging : ‘ She is not bad in this sort of company , but is a bit moody and never the same two days in a row . ’ |
| 3 | Are n't people like yourselves being a little bit presumptuous and perhaps even arrogant in feeling that you can help people solve their problems in the rest of the world . |
| 4 | He seems to be a bit strange and possibly mildly depressed . |
| 5 | He seems to be a bit strange and possibly mildly depressed . |
| 6 | You know , one of the effects are a little bit tranquil but anyway , the other thing which erm , everyone really enjoyed , er , cos I know you would remember this er , Dougie , is your first kiss |
| 7 | But it paid off in the end ; here was the pretty little Girl-Human walking over to talk to them , smiling up at them — Inchbad always noticed the fair , smooth skins of humans , whereas giantesses were apt to be a bit coarse and occasionally had incipient beards . |
| 8 | The 29-year-old British number one will have butterflies in his stomach when he goes on court but says : ‘ You never play well unless you are a bit nervous but generally I 've reacted well to the Davis Cup and I enjoy it . |
| 9 | And even then you 're a bit dubious and then you say well I 'm gon na wait and see about this . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yes it is , it 's , it , it will be a bit frightening but like , I 've , I 've waited this long you know , so er anything they 're throwing up at me wo n't , wo n't be wo n't daunt me in any way because I 've been , like I went to a charity shield this season with Liverpool and they were playing Manchester United , there were sixty thousand there , and er I 'd have done anything just to get on there . |
| 12 | The judge reckoned it was a bit savage but nevertheless awarded it second prize . |
| 13 | We did n't like them coming in the police station , they used to come into our parade room where our men were having food , and you can imagine them coming in a bit lousy and so on . |
| 14 | Danger — AAW always makes it clear what 's going on , but splitting a command into two by asking ‘ with what ? ’ might have worked a little bit better but then again , you ca n't have it all can you ? |
| 15 | But actually I 'm com quite quite pleased with my body at the moment , my legs are still a bit skinny but apart from that I 'm doing okay I think ? |
| 16 | It was much , much easier to be mischievous , to be slightly bad ; and while , of course , being very good was an infinity , an eternity , away from being very bad , being a bit bad was very similar to being a bit good and unfortunately offered more opportunities for fun . |
| 17 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 18 | Erm they 're as you can see , still a bit awkward but much easier to use than these . |
| 19 | A bit spartan but there it is . |
| 20 | Yeah sh , only the last two years she 's gone a bit blind or otherwise she could do anything could n't she ? |
| 21 | This was partly because it is easier to train a bird to come back to you if it 's hungry — not starving , you understand , but a bit peckish and more interested in food than it might otherwise be . |
| 22 | It was in the February 1992 issue and it looked a bit complicated but so do most things before you actually have a go . |
| 23 | It all sounds a bit complicated and slightly confusing , but the system has evolved over many years and it works . |
| 24 | If this all sounds a bit old-fashioned and too good to be true , you have only to look at the happy faces of these children who thoroughly enjoy spending their weekends mucking out , cleaning tack and grooming , while waiting their turn to ride . |
| 25 | When he was a bit older and more rational , William wondered if his interest in the darkest periods of human history was an attempt to exorcise these terrors of his childhood ; to look at the worst of them , coldly and analytically , and not be afraid . |
| 26 | A bit misty but again starting to lift . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ The people coming to the party were a bit daft and probably would have picked it up and done some damage with it . ’ |
| 28 | She was a bit troublesome and still is to some teachers . |
| 29 | Oh yes , they were a bit pleased but straight away they started getting , you know Alex was getting tired so we were getting can I get it out , can I get this out , can I get that and it were half open and I was frightened of losing the bits so I gave him one and he said no he did n't want that one he wanted the other one , so I give him another one and then I nearly gave him a clout . |
| 30 | And er yo you get the impression that it 's late in the day , the sky 's a bit stormy and maybe it 's time to be thinking about er getting home and er I get the impression that that person climbing over the stile is sort of on his way home after having a super day out walking in the the Yorkshire Dales or somewhere like that . |