Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where you can see a little red light , neon , going in one corner and a reflecting light in the opposite corner . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , Harri , you can either sit back and let him do the digging or you can do a little investigation yourself . ’ |
| 3 | Or you can add a little food to the unstocked tank , and by regularly testing for nitrites , monitor the gradual increase of the bacteria as they ‘ feed ’ on the wastes and multiply . |
| 4 | Or you could put a little gunnysack full of food on a big boom , and you could control their speed by the way you would swing it . ’ |
| 5 | A further idea is to make a saw out of cardboard so , when the child arrives , he or she can do a little jig with the saw or , possibly better , you could put strings on the saw and have the saw doing the jig . |
| 6 | He continued , " they are coming in here shortly and there will be papa , mama and a daughter ; we will go to the Savoy Grill where we will have a little meal " . |
| 7 | I suggested , and then went on to say that I might find a little job . |
| 8 | Today I decided that I would organize a little party tomorrow night . |
| 9 | ‘ I think , ’ said the tourist , ‘ that I would like a little rest now . |
| 10 | I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life . |
| 11 | I see that I must do a little bargaining on my own behalf . |
| 12 | I find now that I can take a little comfort for acting beyond my authority and without Don Bennett 's knowledge of what I was doing . |
| 13 | After all , everything was sown and the harvest was still some weeks away , so I could afford a little time off . |
| 14 | In one instance a nursery teacher felt that she should praise a little boy every time he spoke to her . |
| 15 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 16 | The important thing is that if you get up at night to have a wee , you beware that you may feel a little bit lightheaded , so you get up slowly , sit on the edge of the bed , you stand up slowly , and when you 're happy you 're off , off you go . |
| 17 | It is a thing that you can have a little bit more of , or a little bit less of . |
| 18 | It seems to me that you should leave a little time for romance . ’ |
| 19 | So those are all if you like the background , the things that do change but the fundamentals that stay the same are the design and the delivery and although we 'll look a little bit although we 've er I have to say with the numbers we 've got here today it will only be a little bit about things like question and visual aids and because of the time factor if you think about it if we 've twelve people to make four presentations or we 've eight people to make four presentations time is a little bit different and with with twelve we do n't perhaps have the luxury of time that we would with eight people which is what the course was originally designed for . |
| 20 | We 've done our duty so we can have a little treat . ’ |
| 21 | Knowing that he would speak a little pidgin English , I said to him , ‘ You trust me , yes ? |
| 22 | He murmured discreetly that he would like a little word with her privately . |
| 23 | The way we 're going to do this , I 'll kick it off , I 'll be standing in here , and , and I 'll do a little act , okay ? |
| 24 | Not so for Locke , you will recall that so f the way Locke sets it up is a legitimate civil society is first established by a social contract and that creates a community , a body politic , which has a capacity to act , and I 'll put a little question mark over that shortly , erm and that community then as a separate act sets up a government which , because it has set it up as a trust , erm it can change or dismiss pretty well at will . |
| 25 | And I might have a little bit . |
| 26 | ‘ You and I should have a little chat . ’ |
| 27 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 28 | Now now if I can say a little bit about the building to you . |
| 29 | Th er er s drop-leaf tables are marvellous cos you get to the end of the side of your packing you see and you might have a gap just about the right size so in you put the wrapper you put the table in and you might have a little gap like left so you get the this the you get the er ironing board and put that in there . |
| 30 | Well , keep awake for the few minutes and you might derive a little comfort from knowing what scientists can and ( more important ) can not do . |