Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this plea has worn a bit thin . |
| 2 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 3 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 4 | So that 's the background of why I 'm giving this as long retired er tax inspector the mean , my own department has got a bit mean . |
| 5 | I admit , the figure 's gone a bit , but then it started going when I was still twenty-five . |
| 6 | Mind 's gone a bit , I suppose . |
| 7 | But he 's worked hard to adapt to the pace of things in England and because of that , his skill has suffered a bit . |
| 8 | The boy 's had a bit of a whippin' , like . |
| 9 | so one council 's got a bit of paper and it ties up with the other one when you come here but if you do n't , if you have n't paid before you could n't tell them you were leaving |
| 10 | The movie business has turned a bit more reticent about the art world since Glimcher 's folly . |
| 11 | The British banger has taken a bit of a grilling today . |
| 12 | No I think er the that Forest have put a bit of a press on them . |
| 13 | Also , with healthy deciduous trees , the leaves all come with great show every Spring and die off in the Autumn — but more come each successive year cos the tree has grown a bit so the foliage is thicker , more complex in structure — until it dies of course . |
| 14 | She was n't disappointed at all , she told herself severely — it was just that her pride had taken a bit of a blow . |
| 15 | That Rimmer character 's changed a bit . |
| 16 | Standing sex has had a bit of a bad press — mainly because it tends to be used for illicit love-making by young couples who have no bedroom to go to . |
| 17 | In recent days that particular visualization has become a bit more sophisticated . |
| 18 | She would be fifty-three or four now and I find it difficult to believe that any woman who had had three children would n't show some curiosity about what happened to them once the glamour of life had worn a bit thin . ’ |
| 19 | I might have guessed you 'd something worked out in the way of revenge , but your timing 's gone a bit wrong . |
| 20 | But after seeing Celtic sensationally overturn a two-goal deficit against Cologne and Stuttgart land in the dock for fielding too many foreigners against Leeds , Francis said : ‘ Their League has suffered a bit from an exodus of top stars to Italy . |
| 21 | ‘ The year has started a bit stronger , so we 're hoping that with the end of the VAT threat for the meanwhile and after two lean years , this will continue . ’ |
| 22 | Dad has gone a bit funny about sex . |
| 23 | ‘ The company has shrunk a bit since the move , ’ says Phil Longden , 33 , an applications programmer with the company since 1986 . |
| 24 | The young woman was the one who seemed to be ‘ making the running , ’ but if the young chap had got a bit carried away , no doubt he would have been hauled up to court . |