Example sentences of "[vb pp] a little " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | To this end the CPL has won a little victory in its efforts to ensure that the cat is not put out with the milk bottles . |
| 2 | Our earlier quoted settings , which perhaps could be nudged a little sacrificing fuel burn and noise comfort , produced around 145 knots true air speed at low level , and at height around 155 . |
| 3 | Had n't she earned a little peace and quiet ? |
| 4 | This luxury hotel is located a little way out of town , past Reid 's , on the road to Cãmara de Lobos . |
| 5 | A muzzled ferret has on a number of occasions evicted a little owl . |
| 6 | The powder 's just gone it 's dissolved a little bit but it 's not really doing much on its own . |
| 7 | Er but er I 've managed to fiddle it with the suggested preachers for the November series , which I have come a little bit unstuck about . |
| 8 | I , myself , am considered a little eccentric . |
| 9 | Er but erm the So the railway line erm still carried a little bit of er of freight traffic , but erm it was n't quite abandoned , but even some of the er station buildings were removed erm to er to . |
| 10 | Now , having regained a little strength of her own , she seemed cruelly intent on conquering him . |
| 11 | Well they might be tailored a little bit according to the level , but basically it 's a similar lecture . |
| 12 | I 've done a little work on eidesis myself . |
| 13 | I 'd read the various bits and pieces a couple of times now , looking for something deep and mysterious in it all but not finding anything ; I 'd even done a little research of my own , and discovered through mum that dad had some more of Rory 's papers in his study ; she 'd promised she 'd try and look them out for me . |
| 14 | She had done a little freelance journalism for such magazines as Horse and Hound , The Field and Country Life . |
| 15 | He has done a little bit of manipulation here and there but overall it will not boost the economy . |
| 16 | They have done a little bit of redecorating , such as in the hallway where they put up a pretty floral paper with a wide matching border at dado level , and hung an original time recorder clock , made in Leeds and bought from an antique shop in Leigh-on-Sea . |
| 17 | you know maybe I am the sort of person they 're looking for who 's already done a little bit of surveying erm to join as a dogsbody and then over the two years or four years however long it does take erm you know slowly presumably you just get given more responsibilities . |
| 18 | some and I have done a little bit on AutoCad which is erm making maps and things |
| 19 | ‘ I 've merely done a little time-tailoring , simply removed one of the pleats or flares from the ostensibly straight leg of time . |
| 20 | So the Government supports Percent for Art and I would have hoped that it would have at least done a little bit of er work little bit of homework and I would have hoped that those members that went to the Percent for Art seminar would have stood up and said something positive about what it 's about . |
| 21 | No , well we 've done a little bit . |
| 22 | ‘ Personally , I would liked to have done a little bit better in the Tests . |
| 23 | I done a little job for Tony here . |
| 24 | I 've done a little bit , yeah . |
| 25 | Go and ask Grandpa , oh you 've done a little bit of a poo poo |
| 26 | Conference , I think you can see that we in Grimsby , have done a little bit , we would like to do more , we support the composite , and we support the lady speakers that 've come up here today . |
| 27 | Where he had felt a little pang — outside , horse-held , self-wrapt — now , delighted by the truculence of her conversation , he was ravenous . |
| 28 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 29 | I have n't written in it , I 've only written a little |
| 30 | I had prepared a little note , written in my smallest writing , and I slipped it into the envelope when he was n't looking . |