Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] be [art] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't like it when they 're sitting on the floor in front of the counter with their legs like that and they 're sitting there and you 're looking at the video and you think , well , I ca n't get that because that was made in nineteen-eighty-six and they might think I 'm a bit weedy , so I better get something that was made recently . |
| 2 | ‘ I got out of breath drying myself after a bath and I realised I was a bit overweight , ’ said Mervin , who now tips the scales at just over eight stones ! |
| 3 | I , I mean I was a bit disappointed yesterday cos it was a good do |
| 4 | say she 's a bit depressed and say |
| 5 | And is it the same size ground as the match when there was twenty five thousand in you say you were a bit bothered about it in fact ? |
| 6 | You know like , you would know he 's a bit fruity like the way he talks |
| 7 | I ca n't not with Sal , I 'm alright with Phil but I do n't know he 's a bit intimidating . |
| 8 | ‘ I expect it 's a bit strange , ’ she said , ‘ all that Chapel and being seen and not heard . |
| 9 | Has he been a bit short with you ? ’ |
| 10 | Neighbours say the council are now repairing their walls , but say it 's a bit late now : |
| 11 | So I say it 's a bit bit al bit silly in n it really ! |
| 12 | People say he was a bit of a joker . ’ |
| 13 | ’ Well John Major says I 'm a bit of a bastard , and I 've been spending the first part of this conference checking my birth certificate ’ . |
| 14 | She noticed I was a bit green from the sickness . |
| 15 | She says she 's a bit of a philistine and does n't know much about rowing , but hopes to find out . |
| 16 | ‘ I just hope we are a bit more successful in this Test than the last two we have played in . |
| 17 | Jim Pike says he 's a bit worried about the snakes and spiders |
| 18 | He says it 's a bit far to come but he thinks they pay expenses , so it 's nice . |
| 19 | He says it 's a bit like a dating agency without the romance , farmers with orphaned lambs are put in touch with farmers with Ewes which have lost their offspring . |
| 20 | He says it 's a bit windy . |
| 21 | Ben Matthews of Oxford cycos says it 's a bit like ice hockey , not like polo . |
| 22 | He had always felt he was a bit of an expert on Gwen Evans . |
| 23 | As a teenager growing up in Liverpool in the Fifties it still makes me feel it 's a bit naff to spend too much time on your appearance . |
| 24 | should do it 's a bit sloppy in the notation convention . |
| 25 | ‘ No , love , you should have said he was a bit that way . |
| 26 | Jen might think she 's a bit tarty but she plays a tarty bit in it does n't she ? |
| 27 | mm , you seemed to of , I mean you were a bit disappointed there were less , not so many visually impaired people were there , but they , they were sort of casting the net with council |
| 28 | Major quietly or to you quietly in some back room and said , Look I 'm a bit bothered about this . |
| 29 | ‘ But you must see I 'm a bit on edge . |
| 30 | But from what I 'eard she 's a bit of a thing little more than half his age . |