Example sentences of "[vb past] been a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to his feelings for Madeleine , nurtured since he 'd been a little boy , even were they to be revived , it seemed unlikely Madeleine would respond to him . |
| 2 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 3 | Looking back , he thought he had been a little bit crazy , last night . |
| 4 | She had been a little waif then , in her Yorkshire homespun . |
| 5 | She had been a little brick , Doreen . |
| 6 | There had been a little unrest among the servants , particularly in the kitchen and pantries where Dora was resentful of finding Alexandra counting bottles of damsons and crocks of lard , and thrown totally into disarray by Alexandra 's demanding to be allowed to stir the jam or weigh out ingredients for chutney made from the vast harvest of plums . |
| 7 | As to the restaurant itself , I recall that we had to shuffle and wriggle our way out between the crowded tables , and that the noise had been a little taxing on the nerves . |
| 8 | There had been a little accident and Dr. Bonnard 's medical skills would be used to save life . |
| 9 | Rumours had it also that there had been a little bit of nasty business first . |
| 10 | ‘ If only there had been a little bit more flexibility on the United States side I think it could have been successfully accomplished . ’ |