Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | That got a bit hard to take . |
| 2 | That goes a bit haywire then . |
| 3 | That looks a bit sticky that one , at the back , does it ? |
| 4 | That looks a bit long . |
| 5 | That looks a bit tidier do n't it ? |
| 6 | Pete has never touched my hair in my life and there was some downstairs in that bathroom downstairs and I thought hey that looks a bit of fun , I 'll have a go at that and erm and I was outside and I took my hair down , I 'd just washed it and I said oh look , you know , I used this hair thickening shampoo do you think it looks thicker , as a joke , and he goes yeah it does actually , yeah it really does . |
| 7 | That helped a bit did it ? |
| 8 | Er I particularly like the land that it 's on there , that adds a bit of interest to it , it 's another view , another sort of point to attract your eye . |
| 9 | Well this looks a bit better . |
| 10 | The way you test that is , Ooh this looks a bit awkward , could I do Ooh yeah I could that . |
| 11 | This adds a bit of fun to the proceedings , but the same questions crop up repetitively , so its quite easy to cheat by remembering the answers after playing for only a short time . |
| 12 | Coming from someone who 'd obviously never been in the right frame of mind magnetically to attach anything but his salary to himself — money Anwar always referred to as ‘ unearned income ’ — this seemed a bit rich . |
| 13 | This seemed a bit of a non-sequitur and Toby smothered a giggle in a cough . |
| 14 | This seemed a bit of a cheek as we had read the scripts together , discussed the lady in painfully familiar detail , and all our opinions had tallied . |
| 15 | This caused a bit of a chuckle from and his wife , as they apparently did most of their courting on a similar looking bench . |
| 16 | This added a bit of life to the Leeds attack . |
| 17 | If all this sounds a bit complicated , it may help to start using just a small amount of the nutrition information . |
| 18 | ‘ All this sounds a bit grim . |
| 19 | yeah , listen to this , this sounds a bit confusing , number two , five , four , Monopoly , Cluedo and others |
| 20 | For the first time companies seem willing to bend a bit , maybe even give up a cherished shibboleth or two . |
| 21 | People with his sort of skills willing to give a bit of time to the Church are in rather short supply . ’ |
| 22 | This takes a bit of practice and does not work well if you hands tend to be on the clammy side ! |
| 23 | Even allowing for the contemporary French intellectual fashion which puts a premium on witty forms of oracular paradox this seems a bit far out . |
| 24 | This seems a bit sad given that footie players ' wives and girlfriends often score high marks on the bimbometer in any case . |
| 25 | This seems a bit of a strange decision . |
| 26 | But with Mohan Lal this went a bit further . |
| 27 | Some people will actually say , if I could add something to the plan that would cost you just a little bit more , which means that if you 're off work through illness , the company , Abbey will pay the premiums for you , would you be prepared to pay a bit more . |
| 28 | ‘ Owen , ’ he said , ‘ does n't this come a bit pat ? ’ |
| 29 | and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff . |
| 30 | This saves a bit of space and avoids giving a whole profile where only one characteristic is actually used . |