Example sentences of "have [verb] up a bit " in BNC.
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| 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 | ( It has gone up a bit since then , but not back to the post-1945 level . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even if the work has piled up a bit , you would n't really want to chicken out , would you ? |
| 6 | Life has perked up a bit since The Grange was sold and we moved to Brighton . |
| 7 | No a bit bigger seems to me if we 'd moved up a bit we would have had a bit more room . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But perhaps you 'll have to grow up a bit more before you realise that . ’ |
| 11 | He must have put up a bit of a struggle , but they were a persuasive bunch , those women , and the two nans in alliance were practically irresistible . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll just have to get up a bit earlier , that 's all . ’ |
| 13 | seems to have come up a bit . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've picked up a bit , ’ Emily said , ‘ but the law takes a kind of mind . |
| 15 | No well er I , I expect you 've caught up a bit now have n't you ? |
| 16 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 17 | d' ya know it 's funny , on a Wednesday when I go , when they 've gone home and I 've tidied up a bit |
| 18 | Then everybody wanted it and she had to give up a bit of buttermaking she also did to cope with the demand . |
| 19 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 20 | Well with the others , it used to have to brake , if it were going too fast , you had to brake up a bit . |
| 21 | But City have picked up a bit with a draw at Chelsea and a comfortable win against Crystal Palace , and with the suspended Morley replaced by Oldfield , who knows where the goal is , they will be confident today . |
| 22 | Well I 'm glad to say the boar have cleaned up a bit since wallowing in the glorious mud of Abberley . |