Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had earned myself a little more time to think . |
| 2 | All right , so she 'd used him a little , but this was all way out of proportion . |
| 3 | She saw him go to the bar and order a tray of Cokes and crisps for the children , and by the time he came back to her table carrying two mugs of coffee she had composed herself a little . |
| 4 | They 'd heard her a little at rehearsal , but not properly , not consistently , and not without interruption and background noise . |
| 5 | He 'd thought her a little too old for his own purposes , but always assumed she was there for the taking . |
| 6 | It had left her a little awe-stricken and she made a move to look at it again as it lay on her dressing-table . |
| 7 | Their contents had usually turned out to be machine parts but there had been a couple of times when he had found something a little more palatable — once a case of French Burgundy , on another occasion a case of German hock . |
| 8 | He had teased her a little , as usual . |
| 9 | If he was going to interrupt , he had left it a little late . |