Example sentences of "[vb infin] a little [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | At the end of each week , which we suggest is a Saturday , you will need a little extra time to review your progress , and work out your weight loss for that week . |
2 | The photo may appear a little one-sided but these two chairs cover 100 per cent of my fishing requirements . |
3 | But when working with others she may appear a little inflexible . |
4 | When a young lad , well as a young lad you were n't allowed to be cos you 're not going to be in there son , and as I was er saying until I , until I left school I was more or less at work between school and bedtime you see , but er the majority of lads used to do a , do a little part-time job in those days |
5 | With Digital Equipment Corp closing its proprietary VAX manufacturing plant in Galway , Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSoft unit will today bring a little good news to the Republic of Ireland , when it announces the establishment of a software development centre outside Dublin . |
6 | With Digital Equipment Corp closing its proprietary VAX manufacturing plant in Galway — see page three — Unix supplier Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSoft satellite will this week bring a little good news to the Republic of Ireland , when it announces on Tuesday the establishment of a software development centre outside Dublin . |
7 | ‘ It may feel a little uncomfortable , ’ she had said , ‘ but once we all feel confident about what we 're doing , we 'll let you loose on Nathan , which should complete the sequence . ’ |
8 | She 'd feel a little sorry for the little girl if she blacked out in the race and fell under all those hooves . |
9 | You might feel a little guilty about taking someone else 's cherries , but you might also take one or two from the side and hope that the rightful owner would n't notice . |
10 | Thank you , i do you feel a little uneasy at changing operational requirements based on er an assessment of a threat in nineteen ninety two , ninety three , which I presume would have to remain valid until two thousand and twenty . |
11 | He did feel a little hot , but the schoolroom was stifling , so it was hardly surprising . |
12 | ‘ He 's enough to make anyone feel a little insecure . ’ |
13 | And TV cameras homing in on incidents referees have missed can only make the officials feel a little incompetent . |
14 | Dorian liked him , but why did he feel a little afraid of him ? |
15 | She is a lovely person , it would be hard to feel jealous of her , but I do feel a little envious if I stop to think about it . |
16 | HERE IN THE STORE is where you should feel a little scared , except it still seems like a game , and the hardware lining the walls , to the uninitiated , still like toys . |
17 | By 1875 politics in the Czech countryside was conducted in more sophisticated terms , and those who expected national salvation from supposed kinsmen of ‘ people 's emperors ’ , ancient or modern , would probably feel a little embarrassed to admit it . |
18 | Without wasting time , she managed to close the door , having noticed that he 'd removed his foot the minute he 'd become a little uncomfortable . |
19 | Later it may become a little dusky and mottled . |
20 | And after the third glass I 'd become a little boisterous , aggressive even . |
21 | They did look a little absurd though , with Morrissey 's quiff looming in enormous proportions and Marr 's face speedily reclining behind a blossoming mop of fringe . |
22 | The subjects can look a little ridiculous to us too , the old-fashioned costumes , the strange practice of sunbathing standing up ! |
23 | Even though it may look a little rough on the screen , when it prints out it will all be reproduced correctly through the magic of PostScript . |
24 | Another contributor to the RD 's demise could well have been its unconventional appearance ; that space-aged body , looking like a rounded-off , stretched-out Thunderbird or a squashed Explorer , allied to Gibson 's time-honoured headstock , does look a little uncomfortable . |
25 | Now , it may look a little nasty but do n't worry it simplifies very easily . |
26 | But it would look a little odd if we were to start an official inquiry into his origins and background now . |
27 | But he did look a little overheated , so why did n't he at least unbutton it ? |
28 | Fixing a three-hole mixer with pop-up waste may look a little complicated , but if you follow through in a sequence of operations it 's not too difficult . |
29 | There are places around the binding where shrinkage has caused the finish to crack , making it look a little untidy . |
30 | Er looking at the rest of the P and L , you will see that we have split out a profit on sale of fixed assets which is our Lakeside erm Capelat and the Capco shares er which is why the corporate expenses for this other income has turned a way round , it 's gon na be negative nowadays , so we thought it 'd look a little silly saying other income less expenses . |