Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a little [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we went and had and there was a little space , you know normal bit bigger than average and a little hooked thing and it opened up and down came some steps and we went up with trepidation I must say . |
| 2 | He offered the umbrella to him and then followed suit , both were presently arranged , expectant and a little flushed , now standing on the far side . |
| 3 | It was the first private space Lucien had ever occupied and , until he got used to it , made him feel edgy and a little frightened . |
| 4 | The barracks known as Allenby — though not to the locals — ; were pre-1939 Wehrmacht buildings , very solid and spacious but a little worn by now . |
| 5 | She felt tired and a little fed up . |
| 6 | He looked tired and a little drawn , and she could swear he had lost weight , too . |
| 7 | He was intrigued and a little disturbed by George 's attitude . |
| 8 | He appeared to be very perplexed and more than a little frightened by what he saw in the lavatory window above him . |
| 9 | Since they have been disturbed and more than a little frightened in the process they will vacate the burrow , will very likely feed and then either lie rough on the surface somewhere or go to ground in a completely fresh burrow system . |
| 10 | Startled , and by now more than a little frightened , Patrick headed for Foyles , hoping to lose his followers in the bookshop 's maze of nooks and corners . |
| 11 | Then he wondered if great explorers ever felt as he did — excited , yes , but more than a little frightened too ! |
| 12 | The Jeanneau family seems to have more than a little to do with the founding of a number of yacht building companies in France other than that which currently bears its name . |
| 13 | The opportunity to do so did not arise until Racedown was offered to them six years later , by which time Wordsworth could contemplate a life whose course , since his Norfolk visit , had done much to shape his political and poetic character , and had left him with more than a little to repent . |
| 14 | Anything less than a Neff could leave you feeling more than a little deflated . |
| 15 | Drew claimed , with more than a little documented substantiation , to be directly descended from Peregrine White , the first white man to be born in America . |
| 16 | By early afternoon Leith owned that she was feeling more than a little drained . |
| 17 | Lucy felt embarrassed and more than a little annoyed with her aunt . |
| 18 | Speechless , and more than a little shaken , Paige returned to where she had left her things . |
| 19 | Elizabeth Mowbray was baffled by the girl 's refusal to see the matter in its true light and more than a little troubled by what she was beginning to see as something other than a passing infatuation . |
| 20 | In the days immediately following the Crucifixion , Simon Peter must have been , as Anita Mason depicts him , increasingly puzzled — and still more than a little alarmed — to find the world around him still intact . |
| 21 | And as Lewis ( who had already read through the statement ) watched his chief going through the same pages , he felt more than a little encouraged . |
| 22 | The public , as clients , equally base their attitudes to the quality of the services they receive on subjective assessments that are more than a little conditioned by their individual social attitudes . |
| 23 | ‘ And I think Ahn may be more than a little put out by the idea . ’ |
| 24 | The warmth of him against her side was making her feel more and more unsettled , and her answers to his comments were more than a little distracted . |
| 25 | He was sent over to make an arms deal with the British government and being a military man he was extremely loyal and a little blinkered . |
| 26 | Robinson was surprised and a little alarmed at such an untypical gesture . |
| 27 | Here he was surprised and a little frightened to find that he was being carried further out to sea . |
| 28 | When I told him that Howard Moss — whom I never met but whose poetry I greatly admired — had already published several of my poems , Dana appeared surprised and a little put out . |
| 29 | The All Black mean machine , battle-hardened if a little bruised from its Bledisloe Cup exertions , cut a clean swathe through South African provincial rugby . |
| 30 | Emmie felt awed and a little lost and lonely , not because Alice was going away , but because nothing she could dream about her any more could be more splendid than the truth . |