Example sentences of "[art] bit [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bit misty but again starting to lift . |
| 2 | Tom found that the rotary-headed Philishave gave the best results : ‘ A bit expensive but well worth the money . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Ashenden said that the line was a bit faint and crackly . ’ |
| 4 | No C , the other one was a bit daft as well , a bit like that |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Of course , Joanna might get a bit depressed if very little farm work came along , but maybe Robert Sheldrake 's gloomy prediction would prove to be wrong . |
| 8 | He seems to be a bit strange and possibly mildly depressed . |
| 9 | He seems to be a bit strange and possibly mildly depressed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Erm they 're as you can see , still a bit awkward but much easier to use than these . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | And even then you 're a bit dubious and then you say well I 'm gon na wait and see about this . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | And , and so then they , they 're a bit miffed that instead of the B one they 're being asked to complete a U B four six one , a U B six seven one . |
| 17 | Maybe a bit vengeful as well . |
| 18 | a bit nasty as well , but they 're just not big |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | uncomfortable a bit uncertain and perhaps even a bit threatened . |
| 21 | That 's a bit close as well is n't it ? |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | She 'd got thing in her in her er yeah what 's what it is up she damaged it ooh some years ago and it 's been a bit weak since like , you know but sh it was only a few weeks ago we got some computer big computer , with big discs and she twisted her hand in in pulling one out , you know it 's I do n't how , the fell or something and she went to cash it or whatever and of course we 're riding the motorbike for the like you have to change gear it 's only a small seater , your bike 's open |
| 24 | The judge reckoned it was a bit savage but nevertheless awarded it second prize . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She was a bit troublesome and still is to some teachers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A bit spartan but there it is . |
| 29 | The cloud is quite a bit thinner than yesterday , but the sequence still shows movement from east to west , which is n't good news when the north sea is cold . |
| 30 | 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 . |