Example sentences of "he [be] a little [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He attributes this to the ‘ I know a little man ’ syndrome , but one gets the feeling that he is a little weary of being other people 's secret . |
| 2 | He is a little afraid of Elizabeth , but he loves to hurt her . |
| 3 | As soon as he is a little older , he develops the urge to feel competent and self-reliant . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's suffering from his wounds and he 's a little tired . |
| 5 | Since men are usually a bit taller than their female partners , it 's easier if the man can stand so that he 's a little lower than his partner . |
| 6 | What I often do is get the drummer to play , and if he 's a little uneven with his touch , I 'll take what he 's played from the tape machine , go through a MIDI trigger device and record onto Creator the notes from his bass drum and snare . |
| 7 | Faced with an actor reading , as Alan Bates did for much of his one-man show at Edinburgh this year , you 're tempted to conclude that he 's a little under-rehearsed . |
| 8 | He 's a little young for political bias . |
| 9 | This time he 's a little older . |
| 10 | He 's a little sceptical about the prospects for straw-based chocolate cake . |
| 11 | He 's a little peculiar , perhaps . |
| 12 | Thinks he 's a little afraid for me that . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's a little excited , ’ said Marco . |
| 14 | He 's a little funny sometimes , but he 's real kind and that . |
| 15 | And he 's he 's a little old man and I think he 's smashing ! |
| 16 | But then he wanted everything , and I think he was a little rough with my inner thigh . |
| 17 | He was a little tired of coaxing her into being friendly . |
| 18 | And caretaker boss Barrow said he was a little disappointed at not taking three points ! |
| 19 | After this he was a little unlucky with injuries and left us at the end of 1935–36 , having served honourably and well . |
| 20 | ‘ I like the walrus best ’ , … ‘ because he was a little sorry for the poor oysters . ’ |
| 21 | He was a little drunk . |
| 22 | Christina suspected he was a little drunk . |
| 23 | If anything , he was a little nervous about his ability to sustain so demanding a role for fifty-two weeks . |
| 24 | And very good at it he was , too , although he was a little over-enthusiastic , especially where young females were concerned . |
| 25 | Manager Ian Branfoot said : ‘ David got a fan around the head and perhaps he was a little over-enthusiastic . |
| 26 | He was a little hesitant at first but soon had told her everything ; how he met the Bookman , his funny habits , his endless knowledge , their pranks , sitting in the sun on reclining chairs and leaping through the shelves . |
| 27 | There was a time when he would n't have noticed it , but these days he was a little touchy about things like that , especially as Fran was now living with a man fourteen years younger . |
| 28 | Therefore , it was not surprising that when I intervened on the hon. Member for Newham , North-East he was a little coy about referring to his party 's record on unemployment . |
| 29 | For I could tell that he was a little rusty , and I wondered if sometimes this affable and agreeable companion was worried because he knew that he was not keeping up with the strides that modern medicine was taking . |
| 30 | In a strange way , Lorton realized , he was a little afraid of William Dougal now . |