Example sentences of "have [verb] a bit [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that 's the background of why I 'm giving this as long retired er tax inspector the mean , my own department has got a bit mean . |
| 2 | But this plea has worn a bit thin . |
| 3 | It has become a bit tiresome of late . |
| 4 | He has to dress a bit old-fashioned … |
| 5 | Dad has gone a bit funny about sex . |
| 6 | I 'd felt a bit sticky and dirty first thing but it 'd worn off now . |
| 7 | I thought you 'd gone a bit shitty . |
| 8 | Cos nowadays if you if you did something like that folk would say you 'd gone a bit funny . |
| 9 | Heard she 'd gone a bit funny . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I thought we might have looked a bit stiff 'cos it was n't our usual type of audience . ’ |
| 11 | She 'd have looked a bit different , I can tell , from what she was like lying up there with her hair all cut off . " |
| 12 | ‘ We will be playing posh venues , nearly all theatres around Britain , so I 'll have to look a bit posh . ’ |
| 13 | Having trouble with both these pens today , I left them in the car last night , I think they must have got a bit cold . |
| 14 | But yes , I grant you that might have seemed a bit odd to the members if it had n't been explained properly . ’ |
| 15 | Because I suppose I must have appeared a bit untrustworthy , thought Caspar , what with working for the Gruagach and everything . |
| 16 | I thought he must have gone a bit ga-ga but there was no harm so I went up to my room and did my hair a bit . |
| 17 | Things may have gone a bit quiet on Intel Corp 's joint venture with VLSI Technology Inc to develop chips that include iAPX-86 cores for use in handheld devices , but Intel says that the effort is quietly progressing and that early next year it expects to see manufacturers offering small , lightweight hand-held computers based on the new chips ; Intel is currently preparing fully functional samples of the chips for shipment to manufacturers in the second half . |
| 18 | ‘ But they appear to have got a bit lax on ( a ) . ’ |
| 19 | had come a bit loose |
| 20 | And we 've noticed a bit unconscious . |
| 21 | And we 've already discovered in the last six months by discreet calls because of something we 've seen a bit funny in er er in er references that have come back or people have been down right honest and said , Sorry er this guy was last time I spoke with him . |
| 22 | I 've got a bit sticky there . |
| 23 | Norman had become a bit weary of struggling through the Edinburgh traffic jams from his home in Strathaven each day for 16 months since being asked by Peter Wood , then Managing Director of Financial Services Division , to take over the running of RBIS while a management consultancy exercise was carried out on the company by the Boston Consultancy Group . |
| 24 | She would be fifty-three or four now and I find it difficult to believe that any woman who had had three children would n't show some curiosity about what happened to them once the glamour of life had worn a bit thin . ’ |
| 25 | Alison his nose as it was around there , they 've gone a bit bumpy . |
| 26 | I 've gone a bit mad about cleaning as my mother 's coming to stay this summer . |
| 27 | In addition to his other troubles , Jackie had gone a bit hard of hearing . |
| 28 | Apparently this chap 's father had been criticised severely after the fall of the Gang of Four , and he had gone a bit berserk . |
| 29 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 30 | Oh dear , I think he 's got a bit sad ! |