Example sentences of "than [art] little [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth Mowbray was baffled by the girl 's refusal to see the matter in its true light and more than a little troubled by what she was beginning to see as something other than a passing infatuation . |
| 2 | In the days immediately following the Crucifixion , Simon Peter must have been , as Anita Mason depicts him , increasingly puzzled — and still more than a little alarmed — to find the world around him still intact . |
| 3 | Drew claimed , with more than a little documented substantiation , to be directly descended from Peregrine White , the first white man to be born in America . |
| 4 | He could n't admit it to Pam , but he was more than a little disturbed by the fact that the Triad enforcer had escaped Springfield 's dragnet , after having almost killed Grant . |
| 5 | Rory put in mildly , though in truth she was more than a little disturbed by what she was hearing . |
| 6 | Speechless , and more than a little shaken , Paige returned to where she had left her things . |
| 7 | By early afternoon Leith owned that she was feeling more than a little drained . |
| 8 | It was a pathetic spectacle and to be honest I must confess to being more than a little annoyed at being trapped in a railway carriage and forced to listen to this poor soul lurching nearer to a grave in the gutter . |
| 9 | Lucy felt embarrassed and more than a little annoyed with her aunt . |
| 10 | He appeared to be very perplexed and more than a little frightened by what he saw in the lavatory window above him . |
| 11 | Since they have been disturbed and more than a little frightened in the process they will vacate the burrow , will very likely feed and then either lie rough on the surface somewhere or go to ground in a completely fresh burrow system . |
| 12 | Startled , and by now more than a little frightened , Patrick headed for Foyles , hoping to lose his followers in the bookshop 's maze of nooks and corners . |
| 13 | Then he wondered if great explorers ever felt as he did — excited , yes , but more than a little frightened too ! |
| 14 | Father Watson had been more than a little frightened by it , and had confided in the nuns that it was more like something produced by some mechanical contrivance , than by a human being . |
| 15 | She wakened as though from some disaster , bewildered , more than a little frightened . |
| 16 | She had been more than a little taken aback by his unexpected appearance in the area and also somewhat intrigued , though she had heard from one of the carmen who frequented the cafe that the young man had recently married . |
| 17 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 18 | The public , as clients , equally base their attitudes to the quality of the services they receive on subjective assessments that are more than a little conditioned by their individual social attitudes . |
| 19 | Thus when the prince outlined to Anne his plan for a secret rendezvous with Joan , she had been more than a little piqued . |
| 20 | I was more than a little put out . |
| 21 | ‘ And I think Ahn may be more than a little put out by the idea . ’ |
| 22 | And as Lewis ( who had already read through the statement ) watched his chief going through the same pages , he felt more than a little encouraged . |
| 23 | The warmth of him against her side was making her feel more and more unsettled , and her answers to his comments were more than a little distracted . |