Example sentences of "took a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took a little time off in Rome to do some shopping . |
| 2 | It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer . |
| 3 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 4 | News concerning the development in style took a little time to percolate through to the country ; a sculptor carving a resurrection scene on a 1707 headstone outside the south door of Uffington church , Oxfordshire , continues to depict the gable-lidded coffin . |
| 5 | This took a little time during which I pondered uneasily on the possibility , however remote , of having to recognize the existence of additional progeny , and all that it would entail . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Dorothy had a lot of shopping to do and my daughter took a little time off school to take us around . ‘ |
| 8 | It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep . |
| 9 | It took a little time for employers to depersonalize personal computers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Film superstar Alan Rickman took a little time to settle comfortably into the stage mantle of Shakespeare 's much-wronged prince , as if the echo of his own voice was vying with King Hamlet 's exhortations to do the deed , but this soon gives way to a gentle yet powerful Hamlet . |
| 16 | Then she took a little tin brooch from her pocket . |
| 17 | It took a little while to dispose of the competition . |
| 18 | The Eastern Region took a little while longer to dispose of their section north of Pilsley Colliery , and it was to be winter 1967/8 before the contractors arrived at Heath . |
| 19 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 20 | I 'm sorry we could n't do it the day you arrived , but it took a little bit of organizing . " |
| 21 | Again it took a little while for them to calm down and when they had , Bartlemas , with mock solemnity , handed the envelope to Jacqui . |
| 22 | ‘ Coming back to Sara : she went to post a letter , took a little walk in the rain , heard nothing , saw nothing and said nothing about it because she felt silly — is that it , sir ? ’ |
| 23 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 24 | Because I took midwifery and I took a little bit of erm school nursing and general you know , so that I was capable take a district on Anglesey . |
| 25 | I took a little peep . |
| 26 | Jonathan took a little peep at his watch . |
| 27 | It took a little bit of deft footwork to satisfy themselves that the first firm would not object to Rank using ‘ Carry On ’ in the title . |
| 28 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 29 | His proud father , also called Thomas , said today : ‘ It took a little while for us to realise what he had done . |
| 30 | If it had been a Peter Reid type , someone who battles and fights his way through every game as if his very life depended on it , I might have sat up and took a little bit more notice . |