Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] a bit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 2 | ‘ No , but now you come to mention it , he has been coughing a bit . ’ |
| 3 | Like Terry Venables calling for a pre-match arsenic , the old trouper knows that the best way to disarm your critics is to make ‘ em laugh , but the joke has been wearing a bit thin , and it was with some relief that he swopped his sheepish smile for a satisfied one . |
| 4 | It appears that BA has been doing a bit of grey-importing ! |
| 5 | ‘ It has been happening a bit , ’ said John soothingly . |
| 6 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 7 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 8 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 9 | But er she said she 'd been feeling a bit rough recently . |
| 10 | He must have been staggering a bit out there by the pool . |
| 11 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 12 | It was ours though , and Mrs Logue 's parlour had been getting a bit rough lately . |
| 13 | ‘ He had been acting a bit strangely recently . ’ |
| 14 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 15 | If it had been spinning a bit more , it would of kept on . |
| 16 | He had been feeling a bit better for the last few days : He had repaired the fence between the Britches and Ron Paget 's yard , filled two black plastic sacks with rubbish and had embarked on a vigorous assault upon dead and decaying trees . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been struggling a bit at Everton , especially at home , but we hope that will set us up for the rest of the season . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi . |
| 19 | I 've been loafing a bit for the last few days . |
| 20 | I 've been putting a bit more glue on it . |
| 21 | Moderator I , one two eight six , I wondered whether a word from south of the border might be in order because in recent years in the Church of England we 've been busy discussing the theological foundations and the practical discipline in respect of several matters which fall under the general heading of Christian initiation and indeed we have been experimenting a bit here and there . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps Jacob 's been doing a bit of tidying up . ’ |