Example sentences of "have [verb] down a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now it 's not increasing as quickly , its gradient has come down a bit . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | So he r he disappeared from view and the man 'd quietened down a bit . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I could n't have missed him , but I could have slowed down a bit . |
| 8 | We 'll have to knuckle down a bit wo n't we se Rachel ? |
| 9 | Which means this wind will have to die down a bit before they can return to the mainland . ’ |
| 10 | She might have quietened down a bit by now , but you know what she 's like . ’ |
| 11 | Hopefully he 'll have calmed down a bit ! |
| 12 | But now he 's in his forties he seems to have slowed down a bit . ’ |
| 13 | But I 've come down a bit now . |
| 14 | Rather apprehensively I let the other girls use it , on the strict understanding that when they had finished with it they unplugged it and stowed it away somewhere out of sight of our two gauleiters , hopefully after it had cooled down a bit . |
| 15 | The outlet into the Meloch was obvious once we had slashed down a bit of undergrowth , and so was the confluence with the Dee , but where , under the sizeable area euphemistically called the drive , was the tunnel ? |
| 16 | When they 've cooled down a bit you can put them in your bed , warm it up nice . |
| 17 | Maggie was thankful that her heart had settled down a bit and was not now hammering in her chest like a wild bird . |
| 18 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 19 | I mean when he does his window displays you 've never seen anything like it , you know , so , I think he 's got quite er , he 's quite good at things like that , but erm , we 've tamed down a bit now . |
| 20 | Anyway , when things had calmed down a bit , Kathleen made a quiet suggestion . |
| 21 | Since you signed it 's been a little bit up and down , some goals conceded , not necessarily down to you , so you must be pleased that things have settled down a bit ? |
| 22 | ‘ Only one thing about that pool , ’ Hugh said , depositing Jacqueline wrapped in a damp towel like a warm parcel in his wife 's arms , ‘ the tide 's gone down a bit . |
| 23 | Petrol 's gone down a bit . |
| 24 | I believe I have calmed down a bit but there are still times when I will get booked . ’ |