Example sentences of "have [verb] a bit [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I genuinely feel that my feelings towards the FA have stopped a bit of progress for my son . |
| 2 | With a career spanning seventeen years and almost as many albums , it 's hard to deny that Motorhead have earned a bit of a breather , but those that feared the sun and the swimming pools of their self-imposed LA exile might dilute the band 's full-on thrust can finally rest easy . |
| 3 | You have won a bit of space if your opponent can not play into it without eventually being captured . |
| 4 | ‘ My mother 's very interested in it , and I have to know a bit about it as a florist . |
| 5 | I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious . |
| 6 | At Barclays de Zoete Wedd , whose report on the sector is due out this week , analyst Jane Anscombe points out that there are currently some worries on the advertising revenue front , and that some television people have seen a bit of pressure . |
| 7 | I have cheated a bit by not mentioning them until now , but the first mention of women by the union does not actually occur until late January and early February , that is when the strike was already entering its final phase . |
| 8 | ‘ I have had a bit of an accident and the car you rented to me this morning is now a burnt out shell ! ’ |
| 9 | THORNTONS bosses have had a bit of a chuckle with their Father 's Day range this year . |
| 10 | THORNTONS bosses have had a bit of a chuckle with their Father 's Day range this year . |
| 11 | I have had a bit of ‘ medical ’ excitement myself since I last wrote : first when I overturned a full supermarket trolley on to my leg , bursting a small artery with dramatically bloody results . |
| 12 | right that have got a bit of a niche round about five o'clock from bloody Amsterdam and we 're getting shafted . |
| 13 | I have got a bit about it . |
| 14 | People have talked a bit about their children and er and , and how beautiful they are , supposing you were a fairy god mother and you were at a christening and you had a wand and you could endow one gift , would it be beauty ? , is beauty the most important gift ? , button one for yes and button two for no and I 'd love to go round the world and ask this question , but out of one hundred Scottish women seven of you say yes , but ninety three of you think there is a more important gift than beauty and what that might be we shall talk about another time , but for all thank you now , thank you for watching , good bye |
| 15 | ‘ I have to do a bit of planning . |
| 16 | Have to do a bit at a time . |
| 17 | No I think er the that Forest have put a bit of a press on them . |
| 18 | Have to get a bit of dirt anyway . |
| 19 | Especially when you have to have a bit of salad cream on |
| 20 | we , I 've had when we go down , on Thursdays we go to the sports hall sometimes if it 's wet and erm we 're to erm do things the teachers and I er , have tried a bit of basketball but I ai n't got it into |
| 21 | For someone like Nigel who 's got all the tools it it 'd be a a it 's not a job you can come in and just do it cos you have to take a bit off clean it |
| 22 | in my book we have to make a bit like that look . |
| 23 | After a period of time you 'll feel that things have improved a bit in that area ( we hope ! ) , so flick through the book again and start trying to work at another area . |