Example sentences of "was a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a little work to do , fetching and carrying about the kitchens , for which he would get ten shillings a week . |
| 2 | And the third was a little glass key , wrought into fantastic fragile shape , and glittering with all the colours of the rainbow . |
| 3 | I was a little way ahead before they moved off . |
| 4 | There was a little silence between them , then they moved on . |
| 5 | There was a little silence . |
| 6 | There was a little silence . |
| 7 | He was a little way behind her when she knocked on the study door . |
| 8 | There was a little colour in his face and a brightness in his eye . |
| 9 | The damaged one was still working , although it was a little way out of alignment . |
| 10 | There was a little silence , but I knew he was pent up . |
| 11 | She was a little way from Alexei , and when he saw her riding off the offworlder reined around after her . |
| 12 | There was a little silence , then the sound of movement in the bed as she sat up . |
| 13 | The uncle had apparently come to the school gates at the end of school and when the girl was a little way on her way home had caught up with her and taken her to his house . |
| 14 | There was a little silence . |
| 15 | There was a little silence . |
| 16 | There was a little silence . |
| 17 | All they 'd needed was a little luck , and he had refused to help . |
| 18 | There was a little silence . |
| 19 | There was a little silence . |
| 20 | There was a little silence . |
| 21 | There was a little silence . |
| 22 | So we went and had and there was a little space , you know normal bit bigger than average and a little hooked thing and it opened up and down came some steps and we went up with trepidation I must say . |
| 23 | This month sees publication of How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion when He was a Little Boy ( Hodder & Stoughton , £4.95 ) and the seventh film , Asterix and the Big Fight , opened yesterday in the West End . |
| 24 | I was a little bit of a skinhead myself for a while . |
| 25 | It was a little Mini van that he ran around in saying it was for the band but really he had it because he thought it was ‘ a good shagging mobile ’ with just enough space in the back for ‘ entertaining ’ . |
| 26 | The counter in the shop was a little kiosk with a till which stood slightly higher than the rest of the room . |
| 27 | They were all big men , topping six feet , but Charlie Hatton was a little fellow with a brown face and very brilliant sharp eyes . |
| 28 | It was a triumph of modern science , and the new patron could not have been more impressed — although being seven months pregnant herself she was a little bit squeamish at the sight of the giant ten-inch needles used in the procedure . |
| 29 | There was a little humming and hah-ing and ‘ Now , gentlemen-ing ’ from McGurk . |
| 30 | Sir William said yesterday : ‘ My father was a good amateur ornithologist and my mother was a little bit of a botanist . |