Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [art] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mademoiselle Rossignol , it 's very kind of you to spare me a little of your time … ’ |
| 2 | The band has already shown it can knock out pop tunes a cover of Nancy Sinatra 's Kinky Love , for instance but the audience had to be prepared to indulge them a little . |
| 3 | I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The Madine 's , Johnston 's and Brown 's all took their baptism in competition like this , and we 're always hoping to discover someone a little special . ’ |
| 5 | After all , there 's always tomorrow to try something a little more energetic . |
| 6 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 7 | Maybe she was simply a bargirl , a cashier , an all-purpose heft-dispenser … and maybe I had already got to know her a little too well . |
| 8 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |
| 9 | But Estabrook had grown to trust him a little , even so . |
| 10 | ‘ And I 'd advise you to reserve judgement on him till you get to know him a little better ! ’ |
| 11 | Too few filmmakers have recognized that the argument for a British cinema could only begin when they showed a readiness to listen to people 's dreams and nightmares , and play them back to audiences in exciting narratives that would enable those watching to know themselves a little better , and to feel a widening sense of possibility in the way they shaped their lives . |
| 12 | Do you know , Tony , this game is beginning to annoy me a little . |
| 13 | I hope it will be possible for all questionnaires to be returned by 30th September 1985 at the latest , but if in practice this is likely to cause problems , I shall of course be happy to receive them a little later . |
| 14 | Shelley decided to tease her a little . |
| 15 | She decided to tease him a little . |
| 16 | Other men 's wives try to help them a little . |
| 17 | We all like to award ourselves a little extra something if we give up smoking or lose half a stone , so why not allow the child who is doing something difficult an incentive ? |
| 18 | She had to light a cigarette to calm herself a little . |
| 19 | He was seen with a pretty young woman , was able to paw her a little without having the effort or commitment of doing more and had also enjoyed himself complaining about his wife . |
| 20 | This had served to console her a little and relieve the vicarious shame that her parents inspired in her : they were so silly . |
| 21 | Your goal should be to exert yourself a little more each time until you reach a brisk pace and you feel comfortable with it . |
| 22 | ‘ I should like you to disturb me a little longer . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You will have guessed the first , ’ he resumed , masticating the thick coils of smoke , ‘ namely that I wished to inculcate you a little further in the understanding of my true nature , a little further but not too far — keep 'em guessing is my motto . |
| 24 | To make the implanting cut in the stock stem , drag a little soil away from the stem to give you a little more room in which to work , wipe away any mud splash with a wet rag and nick a T-shaped cut , ideally about an inch ( 2.5cm ) or so above soil surface level . |
| 25 | Every so often it will flap again to give itself a little more power and lift . |
| 26 | My fiancé and I ant to do something a little different for our wedding reception next summer . |
| 27 | Invitations in small presents If you want to do something a little unusual , buy children 's drawing or reading books and write the invitation on the inside cover . |
| 28 | It 's only when you think you might want to do something a little more complex and powerful with the information you 're storing that things become more jargonised and complex , and having a help system that is not context sensitive is of little assistance . |
| 29 | JEWKES : I 'll leave you to give her a little wholesome advice while I step to give some orders about the family . |
| 30 | My Japanese friends wonder at my passion , because he is not very well known and not very successful , though when he visited Paris with his fellow sumotori he was at once called ‘ the Japanese Alain Delon ’ — to my mind , an insult to my hero , but for a while that kind of adulation seemed to give him a little of the confidence he needed , and on his return to Japan he delighted me by winning an unusually high number of contests . |