Example sentences of "[adv] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was , Brian noticed , suddenly a little like the old Celia , outgoing , in command . |
| 2 | You will do it carefully ? ’ he added , his tone sounding suddenly a little dangerous , and Maggie stopped as she reached the door . |
| 3 | Was it her imagination or did he seem suddenly a little ill at ease ? |
| 4 | And , while she was suddenly a little mesmerised to see a return of that charm , ‘ You mentioned to my secretary yesterday that you were hoping to see something of my country , ’ he reminded her . |
| 5 | the winning mole then shot off leaving the other one apparently a little dazed . |
| 6 | Rose , on the other hand , seemed to prefer the company of the dancing girls , especially a little Milwaukee German-speaking dancer called Gerda . |
| 7 | You are merely a little anxious — perhaps you have a problem on your mind , some emotional conflict ? |
| 8 | Although Lawrence 's relationship with Feisal was close , the film does not portray its hero as homosexual , merely a little strange . |
| 9 | This is not merely a little churlish ; it also explains why the cumulative effect of their evidence makes less — impact than it should , because it disguises the fact that the unholy alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis now for two decades — since the thalidomide tragedy . |
| 10 | He was worshipped then for his talent and untimely death — perhaps a little as Eliot was to be worshipped , in the 1940s and '50s , for his saintly abstention from the world . |
| 11 | A stranger to the district , coming over a brow of the hill , would have stopped astonished and perhaps a little peeved to see Ploughman 's Lane lying beneath him . |
| 12 | ‘ A most interesting programme , my Dear , but perhaps a little too much . |
| 13 | ‘ So for institutions equity investment in hotels is perhaps a little too speculative . ’ |
| 14 | But it is perhaps a little too wild for a Canadian weekend . |
| 15 | I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen . |
| 16 | Ecstatic scenes greeted Gordon Richards as Pinza was led to the unsaddling enclosure , and although to some he seemed oddly unmoved , he wrote subsequently that ‘ my mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed … the reception which the crowd gave me was something out of this world . ’ |
| 17 | My mind was in a turmoil , and my brain perhaps a little numbed . |
| 18 | Perhaps a little too active but he did achieve his goal ! |
| 19 | Reynolds , perhaps a little taken aback by all the dramatic military talk , explained that it was Meese , not themselves , who would talk to him . |
| 20 | A man of simplicity and goodness , as I have said earlier , David Thomson took many of the remarks made by disgruntled locals too seriously , and so was perhaps a little harsh on the Anglo-Irish , or Ascendancy . |
| 21 | I only managed to see the second programme when still perhaps a little punch-drunk from over-exposure to Bournonville at the Copenhagen festival , but I relished the four examples of choreography by Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch , particularly when they showed off Baryshnikov . |
| 22 | Tawney , on the occasion of the celebrations of the District 's twenty-first anniversary in June 1934 , perceptively recognised that the District ‘ … was only at the beginning of their task … ’ but was perhaps a little wide of the mark in claiming that the ‘ … |
| 23 | These substantial , and obviously expensive works are perhaps a little surprising , as cloth making in the Chalford area had been declining . |
| 24 | The second candidate — that latent inhibition training might establish stimulus-no event association — is perhaps a little more complex in that this hypothesis requires the addition of a supplementary mechanism to explain why pre-exposure should retard inhibitory as well as excitatory conditioning . |
| 25 | But I see I am becoming preoccupied with these memories and this is perhaps a little foolish . |
| 26 | If anything , Ambassador is perhaps a little too strong for a three-day event horse … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Well , ’ he continued , ‘ you 'll have one more , but perhaps a little later and I will insist upon it . |
| 28 | All this stuff about polyneuritis was handy , thought Henry , but perhaps a little too neat . |
| 29 | He sounded curt , businesslike. perhaps a little too businesslike , he thought . |
| 30 | About the same age , perhaps a little older . |