Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] a bit " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The parade converges on Place St Maur des Fosses to hear a few words from the local Euro-MP , because the EC has stumped up a bit of money to make it a European clowns ' convention this year . |
| 2 | The wind has picked up a bit , and there is a light snow falling . |
| 3 | But now it 's not increasing as quickly , its gradient has come down a bit . |
| 4 | I was going to say that , I mean if we do do that why do n't we move to a position when , I know it 's not finalized yet , the P As do the twenty six fives , and we try and adapt Sarah to do the whole s the whole of the four sub teams , ma maybe the threshold has to come down a bit , but but at least we 've got some sort of parity of working throughout |
| 5 | ‘ That river has risen quite a bit since earlier on , ’ murmured Charlie . |
| 6 | I think this has got quite a bit of vodka in it . ’ |
| 7 | She 's still got the voice but the politeness has slipped away a bit . ’ |
| 8 | ( It has gone up a bit since then , but not back to the post-1945 level . ) |
| 9 | ‘ Biochemistry , I see Mrs Hayman 's cholesterol has gone down a bit — Lizzie 's chest X-ray — haematology , Betty 's haemoglobin 's not too good — oh , the Hazell family 's tissue-typing results — ’ She gazed at them shaking her head sadly . |
| 10 | Finally Northern Ireland shows that there has been decline in output over the preceding four months and the only region t t to say that erm it 's fair to say that North Northern Ireland has been a weak region throughout er the recession erm and although in this survey optimism has climbed up a bit so it 's close to the U K average , it 's nevertheless a part of the U K which has really been behaving er rather differently from the rest of the economy reflecting its sort of , i its particular problems and the fact that it 's not part of the mainland economy . |
| 11 | Even if the work has piled up a bit , you would n't really want to chicken out , would you ? |
| 12 | Life has perked up a bit since The Grange was sold and we moved to Brighton . |
| 13 | ‘ The high school I was at was among the first to have a tiny in-school radio station , news , views , interviews and a touch of music , and consequently we 'd attracted quite a bit of somewhat condescending attention from real stations around town . |
| 14 | After they 'd cooled off a bit , you 'd have to go and water them . |
| 15 | her husband died she 'd picked out a bit of land all this and I borrowed this and one thing and another , so well they never found a penny ! |
| 16 | ‘ He 'd rolled around a bit with Angela Brickell , ’ I said , ‘ and that 's where we come to the biggest Against . ’ |
| 17 | No a bit bigger seems to me if we 'd moved up a bit we would have had a bit more room . |
| 18 | But it was that 's what it that 's where er you know , there was he had been quite successful in this lawsuit you know , he 'd made quite a bit of money . |
| 19 | When Chris Oakey decided to create a set of life size figures for his A Level Art project , his teachers feared he 'd bitten off a bit more than he could chew . |
| 20 | And er quarter to eight er quarter to nine in the morning , all the commuters are running around half asleep , wish they 'd got up a bit earlier but they did n't . |
| 21 | And er when you 'd got on a bit you delivered the baby but the midwife was there to see you did n't make any mistakes and , and really to t teach you to do it . |
| 22 | Erm , I think possibly again , if you 'd got down a bit lower this sort of little rise in the ground there , that er that 's a , it 's erm what do you call it ? |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd spent quite a bit of time then visiting district nurses and accident and emergency departments which gave me a real insight into the health service and an understanding of the commitment there was around , ’ Cruickshank said . |
| 24 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 25 | So he r he disappeared from view and the man 'd quietened down a bit . |
| 26 | I should 've tidied up a bit — that would 've made Mr Jackson think I 'm grown up enough to look after myself , but it 's too late now . |
| 27 | A number of changes will have occurred : it will have lost ten to fifteen per cent of its weight through loss of water ; the cell structures in the meat will have broken down ; the proteins will have changed into individual amino acids ( developing the flavour ) ; the muscle filaments — yes , the noble carcass is no more than a collection of muscles , bone and fat — will have broken down a bit and become more tender . |
| 28 | Yeah , I think you 'll have to go round a bit . |
| 29 | I think we 're gon na have to come home a bit early next Tuesday to make pan pancakes . |
| 30 | Daddy 'll have to come home a bit early to have it done . |