Example sentences of "[modal v] have be a [adj] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must 've been a little bit of snow |
| 2 | He must have been a good bit older than her . |
| 3 | Well that must have been a big bit surely . |
| 4 | FOR BEA AND EUGENIE IT MUST HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT BEWILDERING … |
| 5 | ‘ And marriage itself might have been a useful bit of insurance for Gustav : her relatives or guardians would have been less likely to inform on her husband than on some passing stranger who could get his trousers open in Olympic time . ’ |
| 6 | But he added : ‘ I think it might have been a little bit too early . |
| 7 | It was a sort of a , as you grew older mind you , it was i i i it could have been a little bit of a miserable sort of day . |
| 8 | ‘ But somehow she got through and Tony may have been a little bit tired . ’ |