Example sentences of "she [was/were] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Tremayne did all she could , but she were a bit too possessive . |
| 2 | Mind you , I think she were a bit frugal with truth when she said that first lad she 'd gone with and she got pregnant . |
| 3 | Now , she were a bit upset cos I bought her dinner and that , and she were were n't too happy cos I paid her bus fare . |
| 4 | She was a bit careless at adding drops — a kind of baker 's dozen approach - but she knew the answer would be salt and she identified the right one . |
| 5 | She was a bit shaken up last night . |
| 6 | She was a bit frightened of this place now . |
| 7 | Other times she made me promise to keep them for ever , to remember her by , and say a prayer She was a bit vague who it was I was to pray to . |
| 8 | How big , I do n't know , she was a bit vague about that — no reason why she should know — but at least thousands of litres , she says . |
| 9 | She was a bit evasive on this point . |
| 10 | She was a bit heavy-handed and we kangaroo-hopped for ten miles to a garage . |
| 11 | I think she was a bit soft , you know . |
| 12 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 13 | ‘ She was a bit inclined to make a sissy of me , ’ Bailey once noted . |
| 14 | I think she was a bit of all those things . |
| 15 | George knew that she was a bit nonplussed at his eagerness for her to have her own social life . |
| 16 | She 'd hated the submarine journey across the North Sea , especially as she was a bit claustrophobic , but stepping over the side into that ridiculous little rubber boat was terrifying . |
| 17 | She was a bit heavy-handed and we kangaroo-hopped for ten miles to a garage . |
| 18 | But she had to leave because she was a bit highly strung ; and of course you know Virginia herself was . |
| 19 | Now she came to think of it , she was a bit worried about Scarlet . |
| 20 | Perhaps she was a bit like that as a child , Dexter sometimes wondered , always eating the pastry round the outside of a tart before she gobbled up the fruit-crammed centre . |
| 21 | Saw her last night and she was a bit blown . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd have thought she was a bit old for you , Stanley , ’ she said . |
| 23 | First she was blind and then when she was a bit older they fitted her with a glass eye . |
| 24 | She was a bit too old for licking bowls , was n't she ? |
| 25 | She was a bit troublesome and still is to some teachers . |
| 26 | She was a bit troublesome to me to begin with but I soon cottoned on to the fact that it was n't her but the girl she was sitting next to within the class . |
| 27 | He could see her give a mental thumbs-up : although she was a bit young , Georgina Would Do . |
| 28 | At first she was a bit shocked by the primitive conditions . |
| 29 | She was a bit shaky but she got the children 's breakfast and cleared up Bob 's . |
| 30 | She was a bit surprised about the wine — told me I 'd be better off spending the money on haricot beans and lentils . |