Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [be] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't help feeling , ’ says Howard , sticking his head forward ruefully , ‘ now I know who you are , that I 've been a bit outspoken in some of my remarks about the system . ’ |
| 2 | In answer to Merrill 's questioning face , he went on , ‘ I think I once told you that I 'd been a bit — wild . |
| 3 | All right , so she 'd been a bit odd since Ryan had left . |
| 4 | The mock election has been organised by Mr Ian Gerrard , a history master , chairman of the Literary and Debating Society and returning officer , who confessed that it had been a bit of a ‘ sleazy ’ campaign . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've been a bit below par this evening , ’ she apologised . |
| 6 | If we had , if we 'd been a bit more rigorous with our criteria , our group would have got smaller . |
| 7 | But he does , he lives in the churchyard , and he has done on and off , as you say , for a few years , and he 's been a bit of a most of the time he 's perfectly all right because he keeps himself to himself . |
| 8 | She 'd got thing in her in her er yeah what 's what it is up she damaged it ooh some years ago and it 's been a bit weak since like , you know but sh it was only a few weeks ago we got some computer big computer , with big discs and she twisted her hand in in pulling one out , you know it 's I do n't how , the fell or something and she went to cash it or whatever and of course we 're riding the motorbike for the like you have to change gear it 's only a small seater , your bike 's open |
| 9 | He still jumped well , but if it had been a bit softer he would have been up there . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ A train pulled in just 15 seconds after the blast if it had been a bit earlier then the casualties would have been a hell of a lot worse , ’ said eye-witness Andy Anderson , a Financial Times journalist . |
| 11 | Er , see if it had been a bit more local it would n't |
| 12 | There was no doubt , however , that Mr Lee could have made the situation a little easier for himself , and his staff , if he had been a bit more open with the press . |
| 13 | ‘ But he 's been a bit grumpy about the reappearance of Ross in my life , and the fact that I 'm having to live with my mother-in-law . ’ |
| 14 | I 've had this shrub for a few years now but it has been a bit reluctant to bloom . |
| 15 | But I mean i i certainly if you go through the , the early bits erm I mean i i i if you take well okay the , the organization bit to begin with , but then hitting the landlords politically er you know y you 're , you 're checking their accounts , you 're imposing their fines when they 've been a bit naughty , you 're letting contributions erm you 're crowning them and going through the streets , you 're locking them up , you 're banishing some of them , you might be executing some of them but i it 's , it 's only specifically where they 've offended against your , your view of the moral economy , where they , where they 've sort of been naughty in terms of |
| 16 | I just assumed they were trying to cut back as they had been a bit too lavish . |
| 17 | ‘ Though he had been a bit more interested in driving recently . |