Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes she would be invited to her sister 's house , but not too often now , because it must be admitted that with the passing of the years Aunt Nessy had come to look a little eccentric . |
| 2 | cleani , co cos I got caught pulling a little girl 's pigtails . |
| 3 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
| 4 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
| 5 | Prepared to suffer a little discomfort to save the life of another person . |
| 6 | prepared to suffer a little discomfort to save the life of another |
| 7 | He had decided to play a little game and risk putting pressure on the person he was convinced had committed the murder — Jim Lancaster , the man who had taken his jacket and trousers to the dry cleaner 's the day after the murder to have some stains removed . |
| 8 | As Dunsire ( 1982 , p. 21 ) has written , ‘ the bargaining network model has been made to look a little shop-soiled … |
| 9 | I do not know if scientists are taught to write precis or if arts students are still made to study a little science . |
| 10 | All tidy and comfortable , though she would have preferred to see a little color about the place . |
| 11 | You 've got to carry a little packet with you because who goes to said please can you put your condom on . |
| 12 | He arrived late yesterday afternoon , it seems , and he has offered to give a little recital to anyone on the island who wishes to attend . |
| 13 | So if you wan na take them home you 've got to pay a little bit of money |
| 14 | And we used to have a little card , when we went to church we 'd got put a little star , in the squares , and if we did n't go we got a good hiding . |
| 15 | So I suppose you 've got to have a little bit of a thick skin . … . ’ |
| 16 | So you 've got to have a little bit of patience in relation to what other road users may do . |
| 17 | An hour you know what me mum is she 's got to have a little |
| 18 | I think you 've got to add a little bit to that . |
| 19 | Yes , but lo , but then we 've so , we 've got to pre-judge a little bit then , as to what illness they 're going to have , and that gets a bit difficult . |
| 20 | we 've had to dig a little bit out |
| 21 | You 're bound to go a little bit too far or not quite far enough . |
| 22 | You might think that laying a simple path through the garden does n't require much thought , but time spent doing a little planning never goes amiss . |
| 23 | The male patient is asked to pass a little urine ( perhaps the equivalent of two tablespoons ) into one glass beaker and then to pass more into a second beaker . |
| 24 | 20–3–1877 Duncan McLugash , Elder , confessed " that having been led to use a little whisky for relieving asthmatic tightening of the chest , he regrets that he incautiously allowed himself to go to excess , whereby he was overcome by it . " |
| 25 | Sarah just wanted to type a little letter . |
| 26 | ‘ Gone to have a little chat with a friend , has she , son ? ’ |
| 27 | For example , Nigel had started to do a little cooking again , and there 's no point trying to prepare a dish without the wit to understand the recipe when one needs it . |
| 28 | With the awards season upon them , J Walter Thompson were being showered with strange-looking trophies in perspex and metal alloy , and were forced to get a little man in to build them more shelves . |
| 29 | When she heard this Vasilissa was even more frightened , but she said , " Oh , my sister , let me in I beg you , for I have been sent to fetch a little fire . " |
| 30 | ‘ Charlie had managed to kindle a little fire of dry grass and was adding twigs one by one and I was squatting beside him . |