Example sentences of "a [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Their first set was all up-tempo , driving stuff , from Sonny Rollins 's Tenor Madness to Harold Arlen 's My Shining Hour , and they acquitted themselves well enough alongside the visitor , although the rhythm section were a little at-odds with each other stylistically . |
| 32 | A social worker , who said to me , inside every , every , what she say so inside er , every juvenile delinquent , there 's a little Leonardo da Vinci trying to get out . |
| 33 | The parish was tiny , hardly anyone lived in it , the church was small and easy to fill ; congregations select ; a little Sunday school but run by a lady ; some undergraduates ; hardly anyone to visit ; the proximity of Edward Wynn and Milner-White and Wilfred Knox and his father . |
| 34 | I 've been arranging a little get-together . |
| 35 | A little SAS practice can pay dividends ( always up-to-time sentences of course ) . |
| 36 | Alan came home as a Little Lord Fauntleroy , and we had a new baby brother , Geoff . |
| 37 | A little Fulham girl who he said was quite promising came in with a friend or two to dance with her . |
| 38 | A little I D bracelet . |
| 39 | The diet is , of course , low fat but I have introduced some foods previously forbidden , such as the occasional egg , a little salmon , mackerel or tuna ( in brine ) and occasionally even a little ice cream . |
| 40 | I DO not want us to be a little England , impoverished , devoid of influence , sour in isolation , languishing either on the sidelines of Europe or of history . |
| 41 | This shows BT is determined to be a world class company not a Little England business . |
| 42 | One month later I did visit the Embassy , a little Russia behind a wrought-iron gate and walls once used to confine Cossack prisoners . |
| 43 | A little sheep 's blood , perhaps … chicken , even fish would do . |
| 44 | Rose , on the other hand , seemed to prefer the company of the dancing girls , especially a little Milwaukee German-speaking dancer called Gerda . |
| 45 | His looming presence utterly cowed Rickie who whined something about only wanting to play Ellen a little night music , and that he had not meant any harm , and what was a guy supposed to be doing on this boat anyway ? |
| 46 | The painting by H.T. Wells RA depicts HEADBURY QUARRY a little west of Dancing Ledge but the view of Tilly Whim early in 19th century would have been much the same . |
| 47 | Lewis Offshore has a fabricated yard for the oil industry at Arnish Point , a little south of the town . |
| 48 | Stephen made his way down and crossed the Hilderbridge road a little south of Chesney . |
| 49 | He explained that he was training to be a teacher in Bechar , a large town a little north of where I had begun walking . |
| 50 | The Second Austro-Hungarian Army ( Bö-Ermolli ) held the front between Dubno and a point a little north of the Tarnopol-Lemberg railway . |
| 51 | There are some 300 such places in south-west France , the finest of them a little north of here , in Gas cony , and they were built largely to a rectangular pattern of intersecting streets with a sometimes very generous town square in the centre . |
| 52 | The current afternoon start on Sundays does at least give the players a little weekend leeway and one morning to mow the lawn , lie in , or say hello to the wife . |
| 53 | If she wanted , she could do a little daytime television work in one of the London studios . |
| 54 | We had soft music — a little Mozart and surprise of surprises , James Last — and words — now long forgotten — and a sort of fantasy journey . |
| 55 | They founded a little Punjab through whose gates they left in the morning and returned in the evening , glad to be back among their own kind . |
| 56 | A little D reg . |
| 57 | A little Stewart Turner engine er two or three about five horse power or something . |
| 58 | Wearing rubber gloves , pour a little Ronseal Wood Hardener into the lid . |
| 59 | — A little party — just a few friends — we are counting on you — tomorrow |
| 60 | Well I got a little Dundee cake . |