Example sentences of "do [vb infin] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , have , having that criticism gentlemen , for which I apologize , I , I , I think it is a most useful , but I do think a little bit of future , holding on might be helpful . |
| 2 | I do want a little break really and truly , but I , would do it if there was nobody else . |
| 3 | that do explain a little bit about Abbey Life products and also have a copy of as well erm they might find that of help before I give them a call . |
| 4 | So I have that advantage , that er , I do know a little bit about you . |
| 5 | SUMMERCHILD : Actually , I do feel a little as if I were coming face to face with my past in some kind of way . |
| 6 | He did give a little shove to a defender who was shielding Wallace from the ball as it was running thru to Coton , but Coton could nt hold it anyway so IMO it did nt affect the ‘ goal ’ . |
| 7 | I do remember a little girl called Lucy , a classmate of mine then . |
| 8 | I did work a little while at first with the girl who had the job . |
| 9 | Erm they really do look a little bit drab , a little bit grey . |
| 10 | The effects on the body do take a little while to show themselves and sometimes there will be periods when you seem to take three steps forward and two backward . |
| 11 | Now we did have a little bit of that , I would say er leave it leave it till you 've got the other stuff pretty well sorted out . |
| 12 | Mind you , we did have a little exotica in our small North Harrow branch [ apart from Molly , Betty etc. at the Christmas party ] ; there was Swiss Knorr 's French Onion soup for the daring housewife , and if a customer really wanted to impress her dinner guests , then we had small tins of pâté de fois gras . |
| 13 | ‘ And all we shall have to do is to stick together and confess that this dreadful accident did happen a little bit earlier and we all felt devastated but there was a full house and we all felt we owed it to the public that the show should go on . |
| 14 | The malai army doctors really did hold a little surgery for our children . |
| 15 | They 've given her something and she , she had to put this stuff on her hair , had to take a trip to the hairdresser and he said to the hairdresser comb my hair first and then put this stuff on and wait for a fortnight and it did come a little lighter , but it was n't much |
| 16 | Moving on to Mr Curtis , I do n't want to dwell and re re er restate the the difference I had with Mr Curtis this morning , but again he did start a little bit of a red herring running by talking about the major commitment for retailing facilities , er there is a major commitment for retailing facilities in Greater York , er a degree of all provision . |
| 17 | And they do represent a little slice of history … |
| 18 | ‘ Tommy does need a little love , ’ said Mrs Channing . |
| 19 | It does lack a little bit of sharpness this one . |
| 20 | I think a bit more contrast added to it would help it does lack a little bit of contrast . |
| 21 | Erm yeah I , I , it 's the idea 's there but I think it does lack a little bit of impact . |
| 22 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 23 | What you describe does sound a little bit like a chicken and egg situation from the point of view that I think you were saying that erm many teachers are ill-equipped , actually , to teach erm physics , perhaps , and chemistry , whereas they are a little bit better able to get across fundamental ideas in biology , and in a sense because of this they are going to produce another generation who perhaps have very ill-founded ideas of these basic sciences and so on and so forth , and somehow one 's got to cut into this cycle and actually improve it , improve the output somehow . |
| 24 | But in addition to great patience it does demand a little advance planning ; the business of adding the already garlic-flavoured and cooked but cooled wine to the cheese and eggs and putting the whole mixture together into the cooking pot is important . |
| 25 | During my time at the Centre , the strict vegan , detoxifying diet was recommended for three months as a minimum ; only after that should one go to the ‘ stay well diet ’ which does allow a little fish and eggs . |
| 26 | Yeah , he does play a little bit . |
| 27 | And since for the successful confection and storage of many , although not all , potted meats and fish , clarified butter is a necessary adjunct , it seems only fair to warn readers that the process does involve a little bother , although a trifling one compared to the services rendered by a supply of this highly satisfactory sealing , mixing , and incidentally , frying ingredient . |