Example sentences of "a bit [adj] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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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 .
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