Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That river has risen quite a bit since earlier on , ’ murmured Charlie . |
| 2 | I think this has got quite a bit of vodka in it . ’ |
| 3 | She 's still got the voice but the politeness has slipped away a bit . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I think we 're gon na have to come home a bit early next Tuesday to make pan pancakes . |
| 9 | Daddy 'll have to come home a bit early to have it done . |
| 10 | Yeah , you 'll have to come home a bit er , a bit er |
| 11 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 12 | I 've had the opportunity to observe other social strata recently having spent quite a bit of time in London . |
| 13 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 14 | And I think that for me , having learnt quite a bit about these differences , I find what I want to do now is go forward to see how we can build some sort of unity and on what basis and whether in fact that is required . |
| 15 | It must 've taken quite a bit of courage for the girls to have kept their babies . |
| 16 | Things seemed to have changed quite a bit since Johnny 's time . |
| 17 | You see we had heard quite a bit about him — the locals boggle at the way in which he does n't dodge his taxes . |
| 18 | We 've heard quite a bit of it tonight . |
| 19 | Well , sometime Wednesday you go , you really go through it cos you you 're not you 're not halfway through but you 're still but you 've done quite a bit . |
| 20 | As we feel that they missed a fair bit out what they 've written is very good but erm they 've missed quite a bit out |
| 21 | He had grown quite a bit , both upwards and outwards and , as I shook hands with him , I reflected that it would not be long before he won a professional tournament . |
| 22 | I think we 've , we 've said quite a bit about erm previously about the symbolism of , of a wedding , if |
| 23 | Er well I think I 've said quite a bit about it . |
| 24 | Mind you the , the erm , the wages had risen quite a bit during the time . |
| 25 | We 've got just a bit of sun . |
| 26 | I 've got quite a bit at home . |
| 27 | I waited an hour for you to come , and , from the look of it , I 've got quite a bit to catch up on . |
| 28 | Oh yeah , you 've got quite a bit of time , number seven . |
| 29 | So we 've got quite a bit off this one |
| 30 | They are a I mean , quite honestly these courses are these things erm they 're not gon na do them you know , they 're not just sort of fairy things you 've got quite a bit of erm thinking to do and and so on and they 're pretty exhausting ! |