Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself |
| 2 | He was about to return the compliment by suggesting that she might have lost a little weight when she leaned across and helped herself to another jam tart . |
| 3 | Not that she would have allowed a little thing like lack of transport to get in her way — in her current mood she would have hired a private helicopter if necessary to get her to her destination . |
| 4 | Just like to , we should have had a little bit of discussion there but we 're moving quickly . |
| 5 | We must have touched a little spot there I think Stan . |
| 6 | The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter . |
| 7 | A lot of people in those streets ( they were very poor , but they were very proud ) and on the steps leading up to the house , they 'd have laid a little piece of lino , three pieces or two . |
| 8 | He must have made a little joke . |
| 9 | It would have introduced a little competition among Europe 's monopoly operators next January , by allowing large telephone users to lease circuits from cable-television operators and utilities . |