Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] a little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've got , I think you got lost and the reason why you , you were getting yourself erm tied up in the figures and why there was less eye contact was because you were getting a little bit lost with those figures at the top of the page . |
| 2 | So , of course , we were getting a little bit panicky cos what 's worrying me , and it still worries me again we 've put all this time and effort in they may pay us alright , we 've got this twenty , they may pay us a second payment , but are they gon na pay up on the third ? |
| 3 | I think you 're right , we were saying a little bit earlier , that . |
| 4 | And if you were doing a little programme on , on yogurt and they were sort of going at it absolutely straight for the ‘ You watch this and you 're going to do that and you 're going to do the other ’ . |
| 5 | But er they grew up and since I 'm the youngest , obviously they were earning a little bit of money in some way . |
| 6 | Also she was eating a little hay in a half-hearted way . |
| 7 | it sounds as if he was launching a little democrat er campaign for for the District Council Elections in May that 's what it sounded . |
| 8 | Patrick was occupying a little room at the top of Prince 's Lodge with a dormer window set in the roof . |
| 9 | This evening she was wearing a little suit from a woman called Chanel , something that she had drabbled and subdued into an obscurity proper to its country background . |
| 10 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
| 11 | No , she was riding a little bike |
| 12 | ‘ Why do n't the kids all phoo off ? ’ a scrawny , shaven-skulled youth who was lacking a little finger , remarked at the ceiling . |
| 13 | He was doing a little minuet and he starts finding out things about his body . |
| 14 | And I was going like this doing a little dance on the ladder trying to find the next rung and the ladder was doing a little dance on the wall . |
| 15 | She smiled , and did n't care a bit then that when it came to leading Travis up the garden path , she was doing a little garden path trail-blazing herself . |
| 16 | The feeling only lasted a second , but from the way Tanetoa , Belial 's Samoan cook , flinched , some thirty feet away , Bernice guessed that Legion 's voice was doing a little travelling . |
| 17 | This argument was having a little success around the table , when the President of the Society , W. M. Smart , squirmed in the Chair , and exclaimed in an anguished voice : ‘ Then will somebody propose that this paper be rejected irrespective of its contents ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The prosecution do not suggest there is any dishonesty to mislead , but , perhaps in the labelling , Captain Birds Eye was sailing a little close to the wind , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I wondered if that was hurting a little bit . |
| 20 | He found that Deep Level had been carried S.E. on the vein for 30 fathoms beyond the old works and was yielding a little ore . |
| 21 | Deep Level , he found , entered the vein after 120 fathoms , and had been taken south-easterly 30 fathoms beyond the " old works " — and was yielding a little ore . |
| 22 | Even Harvey was feeling a little discomfort now . |