Example sentences of "they [vb past] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why they got a little house down there |
| 2 | They made a little fuss of Lily . |
| 3 | WHEN Ron Whiting and Julia Todd walked down the aisle at Christ Church , Durham Street , Belfast , they made a little bit of history . |
| 4 | They arrived a little while ago . |
| 5 | They walked a little way into the Trees , where it would be more comfortable to sit on the thick , dry forest floor and eat their food and rest . |
| 6 | They walked a little way in silence . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose we should be flattered that Dinamo Tbilisi felt they needed a little help to get past us . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose we should be flattered that Dinamo Tbilisi felt they needed a little help to get past us . |
| 9 | Eventually they located a little terrier at an animal welfare clinic in Dublin . |
| 10 | They went a little while ago , apart from that they never came on this end |
| 11 | The door was opened fully , and they saw a little dark man with a pointed grey beard and two eyes like black pebbles . |
| 12 | They formed a little row . |
| 13 | Then , as they looked a little bit further and were a bit more adventurous , they found that there were some more interesting molecules such as alcohol . |
| 14 | Yeah , well , er they did a little bit of er pea-picking . |
| 15 | Harvey stared down at his toes and watched them while they did a little dance . |
| 16 | As they spoke a little girl of about two stumbled into the room . |
| 17 | They told me they had a little house not far away from where I lived , and that Dorothy was expecting a baby — twins , the doctor had said . |
| 18 | They had a little laugh together , both eyeing Charles with amused satisfaction . |
| 19 | They had a little baby , a girl . |
| 20 | Husband and wife and three boys , and later on they had a little girl . |
| 21 | Weeks went by and months went by ; in the course of time they had a little son . |
| 22 | They had a little bit higher standard of living . |
| 23 | The items were n't greatly different on scores between they had a little graph . |
| 24 | A lot of them of course went to the quarries , but then they had a little steamer called the Florence Cook and she plied wherever she went and you probably know where she went . |
| 25 | erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ? |
| 26 | they had a little watch house . |
| 27 | I really a word , and they had a little chat to us . |
| 28 | And they had a little |
| 29 | Yeah , but , but I 'm just saying they reckon on this , its like , they had a little chart , its either fair , good or excellent and like all the others there was like vision and wear and stuff and the vision of that erm , durability and vision capabilities were excellent on the , on the erm |
| 30 | They lived frugally off a diet of porridge and lentils and beans and yogurt ; they drank a little beer , making it spin out ; they shared book-buying ; they were both entirely confined to their grants , which did not go far in London , and could not be supplemented with holiday earnings , for these had vanished with the oil crisis . |