Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [adv] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for certainties , ’ he frowned , ‘ I am a friar as you see , one who has taken vows of poverty but I am also a little of a philosopher and certainties I do not believe to exist . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I am admittedly a little taken aback , Wilson , ’ Mrs Browning finally said , her eyes lowered and concentrating on the empty cup . |
| 3 | She thought : When not unhappy in love , I am instead a little ridiculous … . |
| 4 | ‘ I am still a little weak , ’ said Minch , ‘ but there is nothing wrong now that wo n't mend soon enough . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm just a little shaken up . ’ |
| 6 | Well let's say I 'm , I 'm just a little suspicious . |
| 7 | And in a way I 'm even a little surprised to hear that your conscience actually bothers you . |
| 8 | I 'm always a little cautious about leadership , because I 'm never absolutely certain what it means . |
| 9 | With a final piece of advice that I should climb the hill opposite La Valdieu the next day , I look my leave of the little group , wondering whether they or I were perhaps a little insane . |
| 10 | I was just a little curious and she seemed to be er |
| 11 | And that is I was just a little concerned that you were possibly considering an additional criterion , as I 've got a note of it here . |
| 12 | I was also a little curious about the place myself , to tell you the truth . |
| 13 | I was therefore a little surprised and very disappointed when he failed his teaching practice . |
| 14 | I was still a little niggled at his not congratulating me on beating his British record . |
| 15 | By the time I had children of my own , I had overcome by fear to a great extent but I was still a little nervous . |
| 16 | However , I was still a little cautious , and waited until , a few months later , she paid a return visit to England . |
| 17 | He thought that I was still a little mad . |
| 18 | When I first saw her again I was surprised to find that I was now a little taller than Daphne but that she had lost almost as much weight as I had . |
| 19 | ‘ You are probably a little biased . ’ |
| 20 | Use a dictionary — almost any English dictionary is adequate for this purpose ; and check all words of which you are even a little unsure . |
| 21 | You are merely a little anxious — perhaps you have a problem on your mind , some emotional conflict ? |
| 22 | You 're perhaps a little nervous of change you have n't got really a desire for adventure or anything too challenging . |
| 23 | OK , so you 're still a little fazed by all this post-whatever US noise-grunge-new-wave-of-alternative-corporate-underground-anarcho-core-punk malarkey . |
| 24 | ‘ Are n't you being just a little simplistic ? ’ she snapped . |
| 25 | But she 's also a little sad . |
| 26 | She 's still a little unsure on those tacks , she 's easing out the mainsheet as she goes round . |
| 27 | It was then , when she thought about it , that she decided that she was just a little fed up with the bossy brute . |
| 28 | She was also a little out of step with her schoolmates . |
| 29 | She took the packet with some fussy excitement , and she was clearly a little relieved when we made it clear that we had no intention of staying or seeking entrance . |
| 30 | She was only a little taller than he . |