Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] a little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't , do n't worry I , do n't tell mother but I had a little accident . |
| 2 | It was pretty good fun , but I felt a little sick from all the rocking . |
| 3 | ‘ I am not quite the Hochhauser rapist I am made out to be , but I expect a little peck , just here , on the cheek . ’ |
| 4 | But I have a little plan as to how he may be brought to account . ’ |
| 5 | But you need a little guidance . |
| 6 | He took a few steps towards her and raised his hand to touch her neck , but she gave a little shake of her head and that set him stumbling backwards . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm so sorry to have kept you , but we had a little emergency ! ’ |
| 8 | Unfortunately that empty but we had a little light entertainment when you first came here er especially the way you rode your bicycles er we , we sincerely hoped that you could fly your aeroplanes a little better than that . |
| 9 | But we have a little time left . |
| 10 | But he went a little way towards pacifying their incensed tour management when adding : ‘ We were beaten and have no complaints . ’ |
| 11 | But He hummed a little tune , cheery as a plague pit , and — pausing only to extract the life from a passing mayfly , and one-ninth of the lives from a cat cowering under the fish stall ( all cats can see into the octarine ) — Death turned on His heel and set off towards the Broken Drum . |
| 12 | A man when he issued say two , two tuppeny tickets , there were two tuppeny tickets but he pushed a little lever and issued two tuppeny tickets which came out almost together , that was a fourpenny fare and that would record once |
| 13 | Ultimately one admires its naturalness , its ability simply to relay the balance and range that Rattle has fashioned from the podium ( or so it seems ) , but it takes a little while . |
| 14 | I 'm sorry we could n't do it the day you arrived , but it took a little bit of organizing . " |