Example sentences of "[was/were] a bit [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her hands , he had complained laughing , were a bit on the small side but they had learned strength and the skill was there already . |
| 2 | We would n't encourage anything which was risky , and some were a bit near the mark . ’ |
| 3 | He liked a bit of old bluey , and admittedly they were a bit near the mark , but that aside he seemed a nice , quiet , polite man . |
| 4 | We were a bit from the road and then you see a bit higher . |
| 5 | Australia made a good start and we were a bit behind the eighth ball after |
| 6 | In winter most of the farmers wore tabarri , and felt hats made by Borsalino or Panizza , two well-known Italian hat makers ; they were a bit like the sort of hat worn by Al Capone . |
| 7 | Stirling Moss remarked that it had six gears but needed 16 , from which you can gather that it was a bit on the peaky side . |
| 8 | I suppose I was a bit on the short side early on in secondary school . |
| 9 | Operation Cuckoo was a bit on the hairy side to start with . |
| 10 | I was too scared to speak to her because she was a bit on the large side and had a pair of glasses sitting on the tip of her nose and she struck me as a very bossy , short tempered teacher . |
| 11 | ’ His ‘ instant portrait ’ — on the accuracy of which he prided himself enormously — was that the client was most likely a starter , could very well be a married man , children off his hands , time on his hands , going back to his own public school days ( the velvet collar on the overcoat was a giveaway ) and the boys will be boys bit or just realized very late that what he really fancied was a bit of the other and had to wallet to get it . |
| 12 | Yes , there was a bit of the problem there is that erm under the erm Employment Act that erm you ca n't put an Englishman out of work , so erm his points limit was too low . |
| 13 | The thought made her feel slightly better , but she still found herself tentatively letting herself in , relieved in a way that André was a bit under the weather . |
| 14 | Yeah , that was a bit under the belt . |
| 15 | No it 's it 's , she was a bit over the hill for it I 'm afraid . |
| 16 | which I thought was a bit over the top , they said that , you know , where you have pretend foods , you should really have like |
| 17 | ethnic origins , yeah , I thought that was a bit over the top . |
| 18 | Archer Road or ‘ The Street ’ as it was known by all who lived in it , was a bit like the curate 's egg : bits of it were good and bits of it were bad , very bad . |
| 19 | And , as subscribers with decades ' worth of Punch purchasing behind them testify on pages 56–59 , the effect was a bit like the first plunge into an icy pool : shocking at first , but pleasantly bracing once you got used to it . |
| 20 | ‘ It was a bit like the Monty Python parrot sketch . |
| 21 | It was a bit like the pot calling the kettle black . |
| 22 | It was a bit like the rowing boat trying to make headway against the flow of the river near the weir . |
| 23 | It was a bit like the Imaginary Universes Laboratory , thought Gedanken . |
| 24 | Erm they thought it was a bit like the dying froze you know . |
| 25 | ‘ Medicus ’ was a bit behind the times for Cooks , who , building on the work of their founder , had seized on the cycling craze of the 1890s and advertised cycling tours on the Continent which were especially aimed at single women . |
| 26 | There was a bit in the box . |
| 27 | There was a bit in the paper today about er Ratners , in the Samuels outlet selling carriage clocks for three hundred pounds and claiming that they are solid mahogany cases , but as they 're chipboard with a mahogany veneer , and er they 've been had by the Trades Descriptions Act , three , who would pay three hundred pounds for a mahogany one anyway ? |