Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secure the long bullrush leaves around the pond , sticking on with a little fondant . |
| 2 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 3 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 4 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 5 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 6 | Then there is the decay of the tree which sometimes holds on to a little bit of life well past when it should die completely . |
| 7 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 8 | She wanted to eat her cake and have it , put Georg away in a little box for the future , when she 'd finished having a good time . |
| 9 | Some of the early structure plans were extraordinarily ambitious in their scope : land use plans promised just for a little while to become all-embracing social , economic and ‘ physical ’ documents , with a further clear relationship to transportation matters . |
| 10 | ‘ No hitches so far , and he 's even come up with a little bonus on the side . |
| 11 | Dust lightly with a little icing sugar before serving . |
| 12 | Whole ones need only be fried lightly in a little butter and served hot with a wedge of lemon . |
| 13 | As for the gossip , though , DisInformation was eavesdropping recently in a little wine bar it knows somewhere in the heart of the South 's Thatcherland . |
| 14 | Her voice tailed away in a little shrug of the shoulders that was like a shudder . |
| 15 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 16 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 17 | ‘ It says so in a little book I got from Our Lady 's Bookshop . |
| 18 | When the clock struck , the preacher came down from a little room behind the platform , followed by ten or a dozen men who looked like prosperous City merchants . |
| 19 | The paths of two lives , or three to be exact , came together for a little while and then separated . |
| 20 | There was another one came in with a little bit of a strain yesterday morning , so what 've done this morning , we 've just had a collective training session and we 've told them to report at quarter to eleven in the morning . |
| 21 | The panel came away after a little while ; he put it on the floor in front of him , and wriggled through on his elbows and knees into the darkness beyond . |
| 22 | She woke up with a little start , wiping the corner of her mouth with her hand . |
| 23 | It had to be left long with just a little braid on the top and twisted underneath with a little bit of straw through for the summer . |
| 24 | Most of these seemingly alert young men , acting as sentries for their sleeping comrades , are soaked to the skin and looking forward to a little sleep themselves before the final push against the enemy . |
| 25 | I 'm being uncharitable possibly , but I wonder if Deanes was n't looking forward to a little publicity over Pardy 's case to promote his book ? |
| 26 | I crept off down a little path through curling bracken . |
| 27 | Position this on the drum , fixing on with a little water . |
| 28 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 29 | Finally , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum , securing on with a little glue or royal icing . |
| 30 | Finally , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum , securing on with a little glue or royal icing . |