Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [prep] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'll have to hang about a bit ’ |
| 3 | Trouble is it might have started as a bit of a joke but it 's no joke now — not for me anyway . |
| 4 | well I 'd go along with that but what I was saying was I , I thought you might become more confrontational and if you were then we 'd 've got into a bit of a tennis match there and but then you did n't go down that route , that 's what I 'm saying , you did n't actually go down that cos if you had 've done we 'd 've got nowhere |
| 5 | but erm I think she could 've done with a bit of company . |
| 6 | ‘ Meeting Venus ’ looks like it could have done with a bit of old fashioned fascism itself . |
| 7 | I could have done with a bit of support from you once in a while . |
| 8 | I could have done with a bit of weeping and gnashing of the old teeth . |
| 9 | If he 'd been thrown in as he was , he 'd have sunk for a bit , and then probably come up again . |
| 10 | In practice , however , share prices would have to rise by a bit more to convince holders to convert warrants into shares , since by switching from bonds into equities they would be taking an extra risk . |
| 11 | I think if you had asked Freud what 's the minimum number numerically for one of , for the Bond Freud Crowds , Freud would have thought for a bit and I think he would have said three . |