Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] a little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or we made a little fault with the design . |
| 2 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 3 | ‘ Caroline and I had a little quarrel last evening , signore . ’ |
| 4 | And I had a little silver box for my jewels . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I felt numb from the neck upwards , which is the ideal way to play this game , ’ he said , ‘ and I had a little lesson yesterday from my friend David Jones . ’ |
| 6 | Because I took midwifery and I took a little bit of erm school nursing and general you know , so that I was capable take a district on Anglesey . |
| 7 | I was naked , so I put on sunglasses and a Led Zeppelin record and I did a little Zeppelin dance . ’ |
| 8 | And we we discussed the the difference between anxiety and arousal and how we can turn our anxiety into arousal to ensure performance and I plotted a little graph if you remember . |
| 9 | But we kept you up later last night and you slept a little bit longer . |
| 10 | There was something in his voice that suddenly got through to her , and she felt a little tendril of pleasure unwinding inside . |
| 11 | But she mentioned the stash-for-cash deals , and she kept a little record , and she named names . |
| 12 | And she made a little dint in the ground which filled with some water and became a little pool for the snake to drink out . |
| 13 | Now angry frustration replaced satisfaction , and she experienced a little spurt of apprehension amid the bleak realisation that he had n't been speaking out of generosity after all . |
| 14 | But when she looked at it more closely , the blood rushed from her face and she gave a little gasp of incredulous horror . |
| 15 | His hair , longer than her own , was dripping down his face and neck , and she gave a little smile . |
| 16 | The touch of his lips on hers was gentle , slow , deliberate , and she gave a little sigh of satisfaction . |
| 17 | He told Mrs Heatherton his mother 's maiden name , and she gave a little grimace which in anyone else might have been a smile . |
| 18 | Failing that , and she gave a little giggle , Rosalba 's face was such a picture of attention , at the Assumption . |
| 19 | The implications began to whirl around her head , and she gave a little groan . |
| 20 | Er , but er most early morning and we got a little respite at the end of the day , but we were always welcome when we , when we saw the group returning again . |
| 21 | And we had a little drive to er what was it called Fast Eddy 's . |
| 22 | I met Belinda — the Belinda from Sotheby 's — and we had a little chin-wag before I looked round the exhibition . |
| 23 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 24 | And we talked a little bit earlier about word-processing . |
| 25 | We were married at home , and one of the reasons why is because we bought a very old house about three years ago and on the top floor it has a , a large room which used to be the ballroom , and we did a little research and we found that the last wedding that we know of in the house took place in seventeen fifty eight , when apparently it was very common in Scotland to get married at home , it was more uncommon to go to church . |
| 26 | I really a word , and they had a little chat to us . |
| 27 | and he had a little gun , |
| 28 | But he missed his trick and he came a little bit too far and he knocked me over and I was underneath the front of the van . |
| 29 | oh course , you know , its , unless you think about it , the stuff has to be kept hot twenty four hours a day and he said a little bloke like me , I mean all these |
| 30 | When the constable called , he left his bicycle leaning against the signalbox wall and it screeched a little way along the wall before coming to a rest ; the sound was to remain in Mr Daubney 's memory for reasons that will be revealed . |