Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] a [adj] bit " in BNC.

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1 It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days .
2 With regard to point ( c ) , I had been a teensy bit lazy in the last few maths lessons , not having worked on the set tasks with much enthusiasm at all .
3 erm I 've been a little bit appalled by the levity with which some of our extreme , extremist politicians recently have spoken about abrogating this or that international obligation entered by the country if a general election returns them to power , as if a , a self-respecting state can do that in a state system .
4 There may have been one or two planning applications which have been a little bit difficult to deal with but that 's life surely .
5 She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she 's been a little bit nervous about it .
6 Spokesman Peter Kessler said : ‘ Negotiations are progressing pretty well , but there has been a little bit of foot-dragging on the Serbian side . ’
7 Rumours had it also that there had been a little bit of nasty business first .
8 ‘ If only there had been a little bit more flexibility on the United States side I think it could have been successfully accomplished . ’
9 You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone .
10 League secretary Mike Foster said : ‘ There 's been a little bit of manoeuvring — but there has never been any doubt that it was going to be signed . ’
11 There 's been a little bit of shall we say erm not as good co-operation as there might have been , especially between and recently .
12 Looking back , he thought he had been a little bit crazy , last night .
13 Just a case of reminding there were some problems it 's been a little bit slow because of roadworks on the high street in Banbury as usual because of that water board work that 's continuing .
14 Since you signed it 's been a little bit up and down , some goals conceded , not necessarily down to you , so you must be pleased that things have settled down a bit ?
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