Example sentences of "had [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to work a bit to keep up with him — the path is not as straight as the road ; also I had to be careful not to make a noise . |
| 2 | would see that you had to work a bit |
| 3 | Old Jim had looked a bit got down , he thought ; I 'll cheer them up , and we 'll all have a drink . |
| 4 | The striker , perhaps because he was braced for the offside whistle ( it had looked a bit that way ) , was less than decisive and allowed Michael Watt to save at his feet . |
| 5 | had come a bit loose |
| 6 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 7 | The stolid sexton , James Whiting , had to find a bit more space in her grave to accommodate a certain Mary Humphries ; we know her — she is Thomas the Calvinist 's daughter Mary , née Titford , who had married Stephen Humphries of Devizes in 1752 . |
| 8 | She was restless , still feeling she had made a bit of a fool of herself . |
| 9 | The land used to belong to Lord Linkhaven , up at the Hall ; to the present lord 's great-grandfer , I should say , but he had to sell a bit here and there — and that 's how the two villages came . |
| 10 | Because they had to exercise a bit of faith . |
| 11 | Over that time , things had got a bit more relaxed between them . |
| 12 | Things had got a bit out of proportion . |
| 13 | The young woman was the one who seemed to be ‘ making the running , ’ but if the young chap had got a bit carried away , no doubt he would have been hauled up to court . |
| 14 | For some reason they had not much liked the look of this pub , called the Fir Tree , and though he had slowed a bit as they came to it , they had not stopped . |
| 15 | If he had persevered a bit more , he might have found a landlady whose idea of cooking extended beyond steak-and-kidney pudding and spotted Dick . |
| 16 | In the interim , she had become a bit ‘ bolshie ’ . |
| 17 | I asked Leppard to write them for me , because I felt that the standard cadenzas had become a bit worn out . ’ |
| 18 | Norman had become a bit weary of struggling through the Edinburgh traffic jams from his home in Strathaven each day for 16 months since being asked by Peter Wood , then Managing Director of Financial Services Division , to take over the running of RBIS while a management consultancy exercise was carried out on the company by the Boston Consultancy Group . |
| 19 | ‘ He was n't put on contract because we felt he had to do a bit more to earn one . |
| 20 | She would be fifty-three or four now and I find it difficult to believe that any woman who had had three children would n't show some curiosity about what happened to them once the glamour of life had worn a bit thin . ’ |
| 21 | They were luckier than many middle-aged people in having a pension from his firm , even though it had arrived a bit earlier than he 'd expected or wanted , along with a small amount of redundancy money . |
| 22 | Yes , and then my father , when he had recovered a bit , he came to live with Grandma . |
| 23 | No wonder he had seemed a bit on edge . |
| 24 | She had a sort of velvet cap , from which she had snipped a bit of veiling . |
| 25 | Whereas the Victorians had gone a bit ‘ foreign ’ with some of their house designs , Inglewood was as English as you could get , and looked like a clean , clear-cut , practical version of Cheshire 's most famous half-timbered house , Little Moreton Hall . |
| 26 | In addition to his other troubles , Jackie had gone a bit hard of hearing . |
| 27 | Again Clare wondered if she had gone a bit too far , speaking so negatively about Gran 's novels , and being so emphatically against the trust . |
| 28 | Most people agreed that things had gone a bit far when he told the Church , in 1982 , to ‘ Face north-west whenever possible . ’ |
| 29 | Apparently this chap 's father had been criticised severely after the fall of the Gang of Four , and he had gone a bit berserk . |
| 30 | Renewing the emphasis on the unit 's original raison d'etre created by Lord Rayner , the Prime Minister 's first efficiency adviser — the scrutiny programme of efficiency studies — was necessary , Sir Angus said , as ‘ it had taken a bit of a setback ’ . |