Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a little time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a little time ‘ fishing ’ these to the back and either tying off , or sewing in . |
| 2 | ‘ Can I have a little time to think it over ? ’ |
| 3 | I very nearly took you then and there , standing up , in a cold dark cave … after that I needed a little time to sort through my feelings , sabiha tieghi … ’ |
| 4 | I took a little time off in Rome to do some shopping . |
| 5 | It was fortunate that I had a little time to accustom myself to being in such a place and to the thought of seeing my father . |
| 6 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 7 | But before I talk in more detail about how we hope to raise this money let me spend a little time explaining why I feel that this appeal is so vital to children everywhere . |
| 8 | May I please ask you to give a little time to thinking how best you personally can assist the Society to raise enough funds before the end of this year to complete our Development Plan for 1988 ? |
| 9 | I think of all those using this channel : – people who gave generously , of their good money ; people who gave their physical strength ; people who gave limitless time ( even their annual leave from work ) ; people who managed a little time after work ; people who baked ; people who prayed ; the member who supplied the entire plant stall ; people who counted ; the little girl who devised an amusing quiz as her ‘ channel ’ ; people who served , and often withstood the cold winds of George Street ; people who used their artistic talents for communication ; people who lovingly restored the Church afterwards ; our engineer , who invented a ‘ chair-lift ’ for us , and then , literally , put his shoulder to the wheel – and the bright spark who had fired him with the notion ; and finally and uniquely , the couple in Trinity , part of whose house is always given over to storing books so that this channel may be kept open . |
| 10 | When she first joined the company , packing vitamins and herbal medicines three years ago , she took a little time to get used to the work . |
| 11 | If you take a little time to pack , your luggage should arrive in one piece with crumple-free contents . |
| 12 | I am only suggesting that you take a little time off , shall we say , until you are quite well again ? " |
| 13 | When William had gone , she thought of all the things she had planned to do as soon as she had a little time to herself . |
| 14 | Alternatively , if you require a little time , a booking can be held on ‘ Option ’ for 24 hours during which time you must make the booking ‘ firm ’ otherwise the booking will automatically be released . |
| 15 | But we have a little time left . |
| 16 | ‘ We have a little time before my concert . |
| 17 | There was a long pause , the kind of pause that winners always display as they create a little time to savour their victory . |
| 18 | With Serafin back in Oxford and Mrs Padmore hard at work on the tapes he has a little time on his hands . |
| 19 | It takes a little time to sec that you 're not moving forward any more , either because you do n't know how or because there is n't anywhere to move forward to . |
| 20 | Once a nectary has been drained , it takes a little time to refill . |
| 21 | I imagine they walked in silence for some way after that ; putting a new idea into someone 's imagination , even if that imagination belongs to the cleverest young Fellow of the very grandest college , is like turning on the television — it takes a little time for the set to warm up . |
| 22 | It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer . |
| 23 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 24 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 25 | It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep . |
| 26 | It took a little time for employers to depersonalize personal computers . |
| 27 | Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume . |
| 28 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 29 | After leaving the Navy , it took a little time to become used to a normal bed again , as the hammock had proved to be such an ideal sleeping arrangement . |
| 30 | It took a little time , but er , eventually he got it , and now I 'm delighted to say he 's one of the most organised managers on earth . |