Example sentences of "just a little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Just a little while ago you asked if humans ever gave up , ’ he said . |
| 32 | I was awake for just a little while and I could tell — ’ |
| 33 | I think I need to put the immersion on for just a little while . |
| 34 | I 've just had one just a little while back |
| 35 | It would be nice to have just a little swig of the erm of the new grape . |
| 36 | I was just a little kid , living at home and going to school — fifteen , but boy it was real exciting . |
| 37 | Just a little tap , that 's all , you need . |
| 38 | Er there you are it 's just a little dress ring , just a little stone set dress ring , It 's a nice little modern ring though . |
| 39 | Yeah might just a little banker ! |
| 40 | " Just a little present to celebrate your first night . |
| 41 | This is a very small sample of labouring class poetry in the eighteenth century , for as A. J. Sambrook observes with just a little exaggeration : ‘ … since the discovery in 1730 of Stephen Duck … hardly a year had passed without some peasant poet being brought forward and hailed as a ‘ natural genius ’ . ’ |
| 42 | He put his hands to his throat , anything to ease the pain and help him to get just a little air … |
| 43 | He 's , he 's funny but it 's not , cos if Ryan 's , he 's not going to get anywhere , because he 's just a little shit , basically . |
| 44 | I have other varieties of Peckoltia ( p.vermiculata and P.vittata ) and they are in two groups of four and do not show each other a great deal of serious violence , just a little posing and posturing when their territory is encroached . |
| 45 | Mother told me that once when she had gone with them to chapel — and she was only a tot-she had just a little peep around at the rest of the congregation . |
| 46 | Besides , the hyacinth jersey was an older woman 's dress , adding just a little frailty . |
| 47 | It is dry and it is almost aggressively refreshing — great starbursts of lime juice and orange peel and just a little grapeyness , creating a most unusual citrus cocktail for a warm , spring day . |
| 48 | ‘ Just a little mandrake fruit . |
| 49 | It was n't jerky , just a little unsettling , and Maxim might not have been asking so many questions if he 'd been able to sit back and watch the countryside flow past . |
| 50 | So , that morning presented a wonderful opportunity — and just a little compensation perhaps for the huge disappointment Kemp must undoubtedly have experienced over the theft of the Wolvercote Tongue . |
| 51 | Just a little accompaniment . |
| 52 | Er there you are it 's just a little dress ring , just a little stone set dress ring , It 's a nice little modern ring though . |
| 53 | Was it when we started to feel just a little grown-up , and asked people Round To Dinner ? |
| 54 | It 's just a little jacket kind of thing . |
| 55 | And her heart gave just a little kick of worry as she turned to Ted Morgan again . |
| 56 | It 's just a little gel that you put in the palm of your hand use some warm water and lather it up and put the lather over your face . |
| 57 | McLeish repressed the malicious thought that this event might put Francesca 's nose just a little bit out of joint . |
| 58 | Could it be that you are just a little bit jealous of The Great White North — a society , after all , rather less divisive and certainly more prosperous than decaying , decadent Britain ? |
| 59 | For them a build-up of the primary manifestations of commuters ' syndrome — tertiary dandruff and pyorrhoea of the gums — is regarded as being just a little bit natty . |
| 60 | Look how that flower is just a little bit of wire hovering over her hat . ’ |