Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adj] bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I have a tiny bit of your glue . |
| 2 | Ca n't I have a tiny bit ? |
| 3 | Oh short of blue , could , could I have a little bit ? |
| 4 | Can I have a little bit ? |
| 5 | Can I have a little bit please ? |
| 6 | I had a tiny bit of a giggle ! |
| 7 | A Buckinghamshire village boy ‘ liked best to go and stay ’ with a farming grandmother , finding a ‘ special quiet ’ and ‘ peace ’ about her ; while a Yorkshire weaver 's son who went to stay with his grandmother for several weeks ‘ during family sickness ’ always kept the bond they made then — ‘ religious , yet loving , although seemingly cold , perhaps I had a special bit of her love , for she corrected me with thrashing me . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I realised that I was in a good position , I had a little bit of work , which fitted in with my family life . |
| 9 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 10 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 11 | I had a little bit to eat . |
| 12 | do you think it 'll be , be really bad if I had a little bit ? |
| 13 | But there again if there ever was a strike or that you 've a wee bit protection . |
| 14 | I tell you what it was , it was Samsung , if you 've a little bit of tape and you end at beginning and you want it , well say you wanted to tape to test a little bit say off telly or |
| 15 | I very much enjoyed the unpretentious vocal quality of Ruth Holton though would like to have felt she had a little bit more in reserve . |
| 16 | You know , it had to be ready cash for all these shops , the probably did their bit when people had money , you know if you had a wee bit extra money . |
| 17 | I would say conditions were a wee bit easier a wee bit you had a wee bit more freedom because they knew they could not replace anybody if they gave the sack . |
| 18 | I think you had a little bit of a soft spot for Poole did n't you , and you 'd have quite liked to have gone there and a little bit perhaps disappointed when you heard that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox ? |
| 19 | On his last day , feeling a little guilty about sending his wife out shopping , he said , ‘ ’ There 's no need to go shopping today , love , I notice you have a nice bit of boiled ham in the fridge , I 'll have that with a few tomatoes . ' ’ |
| 20 | And if just blowing up the tyres means you have a tiny bit more thre er tread on the road and it is a tiny bit . |
| 21 | If you have a little bit , then they make it up wi' Parish Relief . |
| 22 | So you have the towing rope and then you have a little bit of old rope that is weaker than your rope . |
| 23 | That 's Aaron 's I 'm sure he wo n't mind if you have a little bit |
| 24 | Can we have a little bit of hush please ! |
| 25 | Can we have a little bit of a discount ? |
| 26 | We had a little bit of money , we wanted all these things for the baby , but he could n't afford the money . |
| 27 | Yes yo your hands used to be purple an and the brass work on the dredger cos we had , we had a little bit of brass work they all used to turn green and to clean it , used to turn green . |
| 28 | Indeed , McCashin did not rule that out in a recent interview : ‘ We have a nice bit of business in Spain . |
| 29 | Kennedy assassination story we have a little bit more for you . |
| 30 | Yeah we have a little bit of new material , we always get every year you 'll get about you know eight or ten good new songs that people write and the one good thing about the people who write for us is that the songs sound like they 're they 're old songs which is ideal you know . |