Example sentences of "[pron] have a [adj] bit " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yeah we have a little bit of new material , we always get every year you 'll get about you know eight or ten good new songs that people write and the one good thing about the people who write for us is that the songs sound like they 're they 're old songs which is ideal you know . |
| 32 | Let me have a little bit . |
| 33 | And when my father spoke about He got a holi they got a holiday from the school , that day , because the teacher came to see this old body going out the glen that 's body and they walked out , so it 'd be two miles out and then maybe another three miles up the er Glen Shee kirk here , so they had a good bit to carry him . |
| 34 | They worked hard for any money they got er but basically this was the idea that they could earn more money than say a joiner or a plumber or whatever , and therefore they had a wee bit of pride in themselves . |
| 35 | They had a little bit higher standard of living . |
| 36 | But it makes sense to me to have a little bit of help . |
| 37 | If it 's gon na plague him and give him trouble let's get it sorted out this year , even if it means that he has a little bit of temporary deafness for a little while , you know ? |
| 38 | He has a little bit of a scratchiness in one of his eyes |
| 39 | I mean that 's the rules of debate , but I thought I 'd make that particular point because it has a little bit of poetic licence er in that . |
| 40 | When , a long time ago now , Stephen had tried to call him Dad or Father and drop the babyish name , he had shouted that Stephen was all he had in the world and could n't he have a little bit of kindness and call him by the one name that meant something ? |
| 41 | ‘ It had a slow bit in the middle . |
| 42 | Yeah but this this this dog will only drink it if it had a little bit of lemonade in . |
| 43 | He had a little bit of money his father had left him . |
| 44 | I think he had a little bit of ill health and my immediate superior took over as Traffic Superintendent and he was there throughout the war and when I came out he was my boss and er you see and er and then in nineteen forty eight was made Transport Manager , because as you say we had to split from Electric Supply and he carried on until erm nineteen seventy two and erm , we had government reorganization and erm they did away with people like the Town Clerk and Transport Manager and erm erm was retired , early retirement , the same as the Town Clerk and erm they brought in a General Manager from away and brought in more staff with him and that was came in and er so I then applied for the position , which was going , there was , there was Traffic Superintendent was going er Chief Administration Officer , Chief Engineer and erm er Bodywork Maintenance Superintendent . |
| 45 | Yeah mm well he had a little bit of of er what shall we say slang if that 's the word . |
| 46 | up our road and very first house , number one , he had a big bit of garden |
| 47 | Britton looking battle-weary after a match in which he was left as Thistle 's lone attacker , a task which he confessed he had never experienced before , admitted he had a fair bit of work to do as a result . |