Example sentences of "[verb] it [prep] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 2 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 3 | She bore it with a little smile of amusement that began to enrage me . |
| 4 | The roundness of the pleat is improved by filling it with a little wadding or a tube of curtain buckram . |
| 5 | Let it in a little bit at a time . |
| 6 | The Robemaker had not closed the door , but he had pushed it to a little . |
| 7 | I found a photograph of Paul as a baby in one of the albums I kept in the loft , and after the ceremony I wrote the name of the new catapult on the back of the picture , scrunched it up around a steelie and secured it with a little tape , then went down , out of the loft and the house , into the chill drizzle of a new day . |
| 8 | Well , I have n't seen it in a little box yet . |
| 9 | Her argument was that it had offered the women of rock ‘ much worship with little esteem … choosing their image from among the already available fantasies and maybe undercutting it with a little irony . ’ |
| 10 | Okay now she 's off really quickly on a reach but she 's oversheeted , she 's got too much power there , she 's sheeting the sail in instead of easing it out until it flaps and then just pulling it in a little . |
| 11 | Well that 's , what I do is I use that metal that you can hang it with and just hang it onto a little hook so it 's up and over and out of the way . |
| 12 | The medal was handed to her on a velvet cushion and she bent down and hung it on a little hook with which we had each been provided on arrival . |
| 13 | He returned it with a little bow . |
| 14 | He began to whistle now , accompanying it with a little shuffle of his feet which brought a wide grin from Joe ; then becoming serious for a moment , he said , ‘ You knew , I do appreciate Martin getting leave to come home for my twenty-first . |
| 15 | He acknowledges her humiliation by jumping out of his side of the car , coming round to hers , opening the door for her and waiting ostentatiously for her awkwardly to tuck her legs inside before closing it with a little bow . |
| 16 | and you 'll probably want to keep it for a little while ? |
| 17 | She wanted to turn it into a little sitting-room for herself and she wanted to keep its Chinese theme . |
| 18 | If you have the type of hair that can take it , try to leave hair to dry naturally , without heat , scrunching it with a little mousse . |
| 19 | We took the semi-rigid rubber boat and went south towards Dawson Island , finally beaching it in a little cove of black sand and gravel on the shore of the Brunswick Peninsula just before the dog-leg that took the Strait north-west through miles of narrow channels to the Pacific . |
| 20 | Wanda stole a half-bottle of Latvian double kümmel from her father 's extensive cellar and we took it to a little bridge on the outskirts of the village where we sat and talked , being careful to hide the bottle when anyone passed by but sipping away until we had finished the lot . |
| 21 | She folded the silver square of wrapping paper in half and made it into a little boat . |
| 22 | And then in the , where the bath used to be , in this little bathroom I had the cooker and the washer that 's it , I made it into a little kitchen so |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure that Jim will be able to get her some sort of job but , to begin with , she can treat it like a little holiday , until she sees if she likes it . ’ |
| 24 | Erm , the only time it was really good in my area was when Urban District Council did it with a little chap pushing a barrow and cutting the grass and it all looked absolutely beautiful . |
| 25 | Okay so we can implement it like that in hardware but the major benefit and this was done sort of like sixties sort of sixty nine seventy was to realize that you could put it into a little package like that which of course is a random access memory . |
| 26 | He goes look , I 'll write it down on an envelope , I 'll put it in a little envelope and you look at it before you die , but promise me you wo n't look at it before you die cos if you look at it before you die , it 'll happen to you . |
| 27 | I had it on a little bit of elastic band and I 've , I 've lost it . |
| 28 | Well how can it , because it , it , I think it 's got to go through the thing here , if you see what I mean , it , it , the chop you 'd have to push it through a little bit and then have a , |
| 29 | Take it for a little drive . |
| 30 | I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now . |