Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [art] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm I 'm winding you up a little bit but no I mean there 's a little method in this . |
| 2 | So it covers it up a little bit , but it looks like he 's gone bald . |
| 3 | no the , I 'd , I 'd pursue it just a little bit further , spend a |
| 4 | Could you give me just a little clarification on that |
| 5 | But I was rewriting that to try to get the lines to work and all of those things , and they mess it up a little bit , which annoyed me . |
| 6 | could you firm it up a little bit with him you firm it up with I 'll talk to Scottish Homes |
| 7 | Put it down a little bit we have an asymmetrical . |
| 8 | On the A four two three at Hopcroft 's Holt , there are temporary traffic lights for resurfacing work and er that might slow you down a little bit . |
| 9 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |
| 10 | He showed me where the little oil level was . |
| 11 | Ann Smith , who was at junior school in Haltwhistle , Northumberland , remembers : ‘ I know I felt really sad but the thought of a Coronation cheered me up a little bit until I found out it would not be held until the following year . |
| 12 | Right I 'll just draw it up a little bit tighter , is that tighter for you ? |
| 13 | Another 36% liked it quite a lot , but almost as many men enjoyed it only a little , not very much or not at all ( 7% of our sample say they ca n't remember how they felt ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Tell us just a little bit more about what she does , ’ Matilda said . |
| 15 | ‘ That slowed me up a little bit . |
| 16 | I 'll believe he loved me just a little at least , thought Fenella , sitting quite still on her horse and looking about her . |
| 17 | Well we 'll just have it up a little bit else you ca n't hear what they 're saying . |
| 18 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 19 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 20 | But like , he even said it , he said to me when I was drunk and I , and it pissed me off a little bit actually cos like , he goes to me you know like I I was saying about it and he goes erm well she was the one who wanted it all casual and everything , and I said oh yeah . |
| 21 | Of course I called her Mum , but it took me quite a little while to accept her as my mother . |
| 22 | So in order to speed it up a little bit we might need need to heat it up . |
| 23 | And if we can just er just go back just for for one minute , just to draw a bit of before you were captured , er and whatnot , could you tell us just a little bit about the living conditions that you had when you were actually at the front . |
| 24 | You just lay it over a little bit more , it slides and it scrubs off that much more speed . ’ |
| 25 | Well it put me off a little bit |
| 26 | ‘ I am genuinely delighted we were able to repay them just a little bit . |
| 27 | You 'll have to have it up a little bit or the same thing 'll happen at |
| 28 | We 're going to have to heat it up a little bit . |
| 29 | I 'm just rubbing it out a little bit to give me a bit more space |
| 30 | I 'll just put it back a little bit there . |