Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this plea has worn a bit thin . |
| 2 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 3 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 4 | So that 's the background of why I 'm giving this as long retired er tax inspector the mean , my own department has got a bit mean . |
| 5 | I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ . |
| 6 | Ken 's got a bit more to do then ? |
| 7 | I admit , the figure 's gone a bit , but then it started going when I was still twenty-five . |
| 8 | Mind 's gone a bit , I suppose . |
| 9 | But he 's worked hard to adapt to the pace of things in England and because of that , his skill has suffered a bit . |
| 10 | Tom Regan having said a bit about that , I will not say too much more . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The boy 's had a bit of a whippin' , like . |
| 13 | Anyway , everyone knows that training shoes have gone a bit crazy in the past few years . |
| 14 | so one council 's got a bit of paper and it ties up with the other one when you come here but if you do n't , if you have n't paid before you could n't tell them you were leaving |
| 15 | The movie business has turned a bit more reticent about the art world since Glimcher 's folly . |
| 16 | The British banger has taken a bit of a grilling today . |
| 17 | ‘ Aleena 's got a bit of a cough , ’ she said . |
| 18 | No I think er the that Forest have put a bit of a press on them . |
| 19 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |
| 20 | She was n't disappointed at all , she told herself severely — it was just that her pride had taken a bit of a blow . |
| 21 | Most people agreed that things had gone a bit far when he told the Church , in 1982 , to ‘ Face north-west whenever possible . ’ |
| 22 | Over that time , things had got a bit more relaxed between them . |
| 23 | Things had got a bit out of proportion . |
| 24 | That Rimmer character 's changed a bit . |
| 25 | Things have changed a bit . |
| 26 | After a period of time you 'll feel that things have improved a bit in that area ( we hope ! ) , so flick through the book again and start trying to work at another area . |
| 27 | It appears that my letter concerning Macca for Rangers has caused a bit of a rumpus . |
| 28 | Beating Oldham 1–0 on 30 August had taken a bit of heat off Wilkinson , but another away defeat could well have led to calls for his resignation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |