Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] a little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this end the CPL has won a little victory in its efforts to ensure that the cat is not put out with the milk bottles . |
| 2 | And one church has prepared a little presentation or mind-stretching , heart-stretching thought of church and community . |
| 3 | He has done a little bit of manipulation here and there but overall it will not boost the economy . |
| 4 | DENNIS SKINNER , the Bolsover MP who has terrorised generations of ministers from his place below the gangway , has made a little bit of history this week . |
| 5 | Instead , he has produced a little Bill which has no friends and which the House will not find — |
| 6 | ‘ It 's fine in the Ryder Cup , although that has got a little bit out of hand when nerves are stretched like the note of a piano . |
| 7 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 8 | About eighty per cent of the users are students , and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books . |
| 9 | Hugh Hefner has devoted a little bit of Playboy to his new bride , Kimberley . |
| 10 | He has pinned a little square of material onto both his knees so that when he drives , the fabric of his best trousers will not rub against the steering wheel . |
| 11 | She has found a little place in the country . |
| 12 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |
| 13 | Violet has mostly dug up her patch and planted vegetables in it , but she has left a little strip of grass , about three foot long , which she mows with a lawn mower she bought at a jumble sale for two pounds . |
| 14 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 15 | Erm where it has lost a little bit of the quality of the lighting is round the base . |
| 16 | I was told I 'd got a little girl , then I heard her crying . |
| 17 | Yeah At one time we could n't get Jessy to talk , he 'd got a little girl with er and |
| 18 | So I worked down here and nights up there preparing it and all round this , this place was coat hooks and that , where they all hung their things and I had to knock them down , you know what I mean , and fix me own benches up and er I 'd got a little treadle lather and er sufficient for me to start . |
| 19 | But he he 'd got a little mission er on the side of the at , , I 've I went with him so I saw it . |
| 20 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 21 | And you 'd got a little bit of plaster you , you could show the court the next morning , he was going to prison . |
| 22 | But they 'd had a little drink in Germany , and did n't know where to head ! |
| 23 | If you 'd , if you 'd had a little bit yourself you would n't , you would n't have smelt it . |
| 24 | We 'd had a little car before he got there . |
| 25 | Cos they 'd brought a little dog to be walked . |
| 26 | Des Little the signing from Swansea has been rested because er Frank Clarke felt he 'd lost a little bit of confidence in Forest 's poor start to the season . |
| 27 | I thought , I 'd like him to think that I 'd improved a little bit . |
| 28 | I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself |
| 29 | And we used to have a little card , when we went to church we 'd got put a little star , in the squares , and if we did n't go we got a good hiding . |
| 30 | The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter . |