Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I suppose I must have appeared a bit untrustworthy , thought Caspar , what with working for the Gruagach and everything . |
| 2 | Perhaps I should have put a bit more water into my late night whisky ? |
| 3 | Looking back , there have been occasions when I might have had a bit more foresight , particularly when this chap rang me from Newcastle one day raving about this brilliant young footballer he wanted me to look after . |
| 4 | I 'll have to work a bit harder to make up for lost time when I get there . |
| 5 | ‘ We will be playing posh venues , nearly all theatres around Britain , so I 'll have to look a bit posh . ’ |
| 6 | Perhaps I could have had a bit of a chat to him . ’ |
| 7 | I sound like Piers , she thought suddenly , when a few months ago I would have giggled a bit at a remark like that . |
| 8 | But erm on the other hand we do actually have empty spaces in our old people 's homes , so whilst you will have people who may have to move a bit , we 're not actually reducing the number of occupied beds in the whole old person 's home sector |
| 9 | Some of you may have seen a bit of these before or similar ones , but it does n't matter , because it 's worth looking at again . |
| 10 | Erm also as far as the husband 's back trouble was concerned , I f I felt that perhaps you should 've got a bit more information about the fact that he was going for tests next week at the hospital . |
| 11 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 12 | I can see that this would have given you a problem finding a rhyme for ‘ by ’ , but you should have tried a bit harder . |
| 13 | Well she must have paid a bit off . |
| 14 | She should have done a bit more than that actually . |
| 15 | you do n't know the full story , she might have had a bit of a |
| 16 | ‘ Look son , you 'll have to act a bit more positively . |
| 17 | I want you for the West End after your six weeks in the sticks , and you 'll have to have a bit of bosom . ’ |
| 18 | She 'd have looked a bit different , I can tell , from what she was like lying up there with her hair all cut off . " |
| 19 | Erm you asked about the cottage and the amounts , yeah there was you could have asked a bit more perhaps about the tax there but otherwise you 're very good . |
| 20 | that you could have done a bit more last year |
| 21 | Or , possibly , she would have done a bit of both . |
| 22 | We may have to work a bit on Europe after a recent P.G.A . |
| 23 | We scored an away goal and then two at home , and I feel perhaps we should have done a bit better . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ We scored an away goal and two at home and I feel we should have done a bit better . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought we might have looked a bit stiff 'cos it was n't our usual type of audience . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Of course we might have to deduct a bit to replace my trolleys . ’ |
| 27 | No a bit bigger seems to me if we 'd moved up a bit we would have had a bit more room . |
| 28 | Having trouble with both these pens today , I left them in the car last night , I think they must have got a bit cold . |
| 29 | I wish they 'd have gone a bit faster . |
| 30 | You know , like they 'd have to put a bit of a twist in it I suppose . |