Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] little [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So i it was n't a very easy thing then to get them and as I say you 'd be preparing a fare increase which , perhaps a ha'penny on certain fares and a penny on fares above a certain range and you had to allow for depreciation , or resistance in the public travelling but er as long as you could always bring in a little extra from a fare increase it was worthwhile going forward . |
| 2 | He lived in a little hired house five minutes from the church , on a stipend of £260 a year . |
| 3 | The royal icing used for run-outs or flooding needs to be very slightly runnier in consistency than usual , so mix in a little unbeaten egg white or water , a drop at a time , until you achieve a cream-like consistency . |
| 4 | He was indulging in a little harmless deceit . |
| 5 | The Fluid Foundation comes in a little opaque beige plastic container , and is labelled , in gold lettering , Teint Naturel . |
| 6 | In Ayr , they lived in a little thatched cottage and Bel obtained employment as a washer-woman to support herself and her son , albeit in the dire poverty of her class in that time . |
| 7 | Anna and her mother lived in a little detached house which looked as though it had been sliced off from some larger building . |
| 8 | I move in a little artificial , smiling world away from all the big interests of life . ’ |
| 9 | Children can either take remedies as a powder by crushing the pill between two clean teaspoons , or dissolved in a little clean , fresh water in a glass . |
| 10 | When I took my children to bed at night they would pause to look through a little knee-high window which lit the stairs . |
| 11 | " I know you come over a little shy when I talk about you this way , Chuck , but I do it for a good reason , " continued the senator , lighting a Havana cigar with elaborate care . |
| 12 | They let off a little despondent these mums and toddlers thinking oh the best bit of the day , and they forget , it was n't . |
| 13 | There were a few of the I-am-not-really-dead-but-just-popped-out-for-a-packet-of-fags sort of lines , which all went on a little long for Henry 's taste , and quite a number of death-as-a-viable-alternative-to-life stuff , much of it from the fathers of the early church . |
| 14 | After an eventful journey to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides , off the north-west coast of Scotland , he was joined by his younger brother , aged around 23 , James Keith , who had travelled through France to Paris like a military pied Piper , collecting Jacobites as he went , before embarking on a little 25-ton ship at Le Havre to sail round the west coast of Ireland . |
| 15 | She suspected that the good doctor might be laying it on a little thick , but she would not be put off , and said in her stiffest voice , ‘ Yes , I understand all that , and I am prepared to work hard , ’ and she added for good measure , ‘ You need not worry about followers . |
| 16 | She sits on a little wooden bench , and seems to be engaged in animated conversation with the empty space beside her . |
| 17 | His picture sits on a little wooden cabinet in the lounge , a young man wearing a denim jacket and a hint of a smile . |
| 18 | Perhaps I should try to pick up a little extra at Macready 's tables . |
| 19 | When I detained him by a greeting , he looked up a little puzzled , saying that he thought that we lived in Cornwall Gardens . |
| 20 | Willie looked up a little bewildered and then back down at his script . |
| 21 | He bethought him of his little key and held it up bravely before him , and it put out a little sparkling light that illumined a step at a time , silvery-pale . |
| 22 | They turn out a little patchy , but it does not seem to matter to the fish . |
| 23 | ‘ Are they clean ? ’ one woman asked , picking out a little coloured dress to measure up against her own child . |
| 24 | Yet , before , on their secret dates , Rab had been most punctual — a big smile and hug for her — while she , to have him more keen , had hung back a little late . |
| 25 | He looked around a little bewildered . |