Example sentences of "have [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I genuinely feel that my feelings towards the FA have stopped a bit of progress for my son . |
| 2 | ‘ I have jumped a bit when a car has backfired or the central heating has rumbled thinking for a moment I was hearing gun fire . |
| 3 | With a career spanning seventeen years and almost as many albums , it 's hard to deny that Motorhead have earned a bit of a breather , but those that feared the sun and the swimming pools of their self-imposed LA exile might dilute the band 's full-on thrust can finally rest easy . |
| 4 | You have won a bit of space if your opponent can not play into it without eventually being captured . |
| 5 | ‘ My mother 's very interested in it , and I have to know a bit about it as a florist . |
| 6 | I have done a bit myself , but possess neither the ability nor the patience to do fine work . |
| 7 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 8 | Mind you they have done a bit more to it since Wiggie 's been there in as much as she 's had a big curtain put across |
| 9 | At Barclays de Zoete Wedd , whose report on the sector is due out this week , analyst Jane Anscombe points out that there are currently some worries on the advertising revenue front , and that some television people have seen a bit of pressure . |
| 10 | I have cheated a bit by not mentioning them until now , but the first mention of women by the union does not actually occur until late January and early February , that is when the strike was already entering its final phase . |
| 11 | Well the others have made a bit , we just took it for granted that she was giving us ten per cent rise , and did n't bother , cos they trusted her , but |
| 12 | You have to walk a bit . |
| 13 | ‘ I have had a bit of an accident and the car you rented to me this morning is now a burnt out shell ! ’ |
| 14 | THORNTONS bosses have had a bit of a chuckle with their Father 's Day range this year . |
| 15 | THORNTONS bosses have had a bit of a chuckle with their Father 's Day range this year . |
| 16 | I have had a bit of ‘ medical ’ excitement myself since I last wrote : first when I overturned a full supermarket trolley on to my leg , bursting a small artery with dramatically bloody results . |
| 17 | I think we have got a bit more confident as the Project has gone on and said to them : well really , you ought not to be buying this . |
| 18 | right that have got a bit of a niche round about five o'clock from bloody Amsterdam and we 're getting shafted . |
| 19 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 20 | I have got a bit about it . |
| 21 | People have talked a bit about their children and er and , and how beautiful they are , supposing you were a fairy god mother and you were at a christening and you had a wand and you could endow one gift , would it be beauty ? , is beauty the most important gift ? , button one for yes and button two for no and I 'd love to go round the world and ask this question , but out of one hundred Scottish women seven of you say yes , but ninety three of you think there is a more important gift than beauty and what that might be we shall talk about another time , but for all thank you now , thank you for watching , good bye |
| 22 | and they did n't do anything for me , so anyhow I 've started taking two , they have helped a bit |
| 23 | Usually we have to look a bit more closely for numbers that will cancel . |
| 24 | As time has progressed I have produced a bit more and I have been prepared to show things that went a bit further back ; I have extended the oeuvre at both ends . |
| 25 | They have become a bit more open-minded now but they like to make changes slowly . |
| 26 | I think I have become a bit more positive . |
| 27 | Well I , I think after this er people have n't appreciated yet that they 've , the grounds have become a bit safer than they were the hooligan element seemed to be taking over , they have er closed circuit television now , at Walsall , so they can get to the hot spot of any trouble and er they erm the ground |
| 28 | ‘ I have to do a bit of planning . |
| 29 | Have to do a bit at a time . |
| 30 | His sales have dipped a bit since Jig , and all the Grafton reissues have rather confused people , but this is new and first-class . |