Example sentences of "a bit [adj] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | The growth spurt in boys and girls often begins with the hands and feet , which is why they sometimes look a bit clumsy and act rather awkwardly , until the rest of the body catches up . |
2 | He was a bit stunned and rushed home to raise the alarm . |
3 | So if you did n't get serial correlation and you estimated a model like this you 'd be a bit curious and wonder why right . |
4 | ‘ He looked a bit scruffy and trudged about . |
5 | Hilda Crumble — The family cook , she 's a bit thick and does n't know much about anything . |
6 | I thought it sounded a bit slushy and did n't really relate to it . |
7 | There is nothing wrong with being a bit conservative and building up financial resources , and not just jumping straight in . |
8 | ‘ We 've had some quite interesting encounters between men and women who are a bit confused but have n't lost their desires . |
9 | That night , Jim was a bit happier and did n't think about the previous worries . |
10 | He wrote to his mother : ‘ I am not a bit excited and do n't realize it in the least . ’ |
11 | By which time the sexual revolution was also wearing a bit thin and became more to do with increasing women 's availability to men than the sexual autonomy and control over our own bodies we had all been promised . |