Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
| 2 | You only have to take a little bit off ai n't enough to go under your nose . |
| 3 | But , you only have to earn a little bit and you lose your benefit . |
| 4 | That 's all you have , that 's only have to have a little bit . |
| 5 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 6 | ‘ I just came to have a little talk to you . |
| 7 | Now we 're just going to 'ave a little hoppin' on the spot " |
| 8 | Yes Well I 'm just going to have a little nibble at the end of that . |
| 9 | Actually , I might just have had a little to do with his death , as it occurred less than a year after the Stoves lost their only child , Esmerelda . |
| 10 | Sarah just wanted to type a little letter . |
| 11 | And if you were silly enough to stand there long enough you 'd soon , your skirt , your trousers you 'd soon start smelling a little bit . |
| 12 | He knew the would just love to arrange a little " accident " with some spanner or brick falling from a building , or , more plausibly still , from some scaffolding . |
| 13 | With the Hillbillies project , I enjoyed doing the record so much that I just wanted to do a little tour . |
| 14 | I just wanted to add a little light to illuminate the darkness of my soul . |
| 15 | That 's the trouble with doing all these films and tellies — you just have to remember a little bit for a short take . |
| 16 | Mr Mayor , I do feel after councillor er er er speech I just have to make a little comment erm people in my ward . |
| 17 | suddenly thought you still got to have a little holdall membership forms in it , have n't you ? |
| 18 | As for British Steel 's monolith , at least it still stands to give a little reassurance against Teesside 's depression and unemployment ; it may be recalled that Teesside steel made North-Eastern strength . |
| 19 | I do not know if scientists are taught to write precis or if arts students are still made to study a little science . |
| 20 | You will still have to do a little detective work first , to make sure that you are cutting into the circuit cable itself and not into a spur . |
| 21 | That 's right , yes it should , erm , these , these are n't completed , but even so the ones that we , we , I have done that too I 've opened out , having performed them , you still need to have a little bit of an idea |
| 22 | In retrospect , I would probably have saved a little bit more , but there it is — I did manage to save a little bit anyway . |
| 23 | The retired Everton Football Club salesman has keenly followed the campaign and thoroughly enjoys finding a little fame at 70 . |
| 24 | You you both have to have a little ride each back to my house because I ca n't I do n't think |
| 25 | School chiefs in Somerset — where the experiment is taking place — also plan to impose a little je ne sais quoi on the kids ' Aussie heroes in Neighbours . |
| 26 | If anything I think women 's education now has to compensate a little erm and provide for those areas in which women start in a way that could be considered a handicap to men . |
| 27 | Erm they really do look a little bit drab , a little bit grey . |
| 28 | The malai army doctors really did hold a little surgery for our children . |
| 29 | And I do n't like provide a little bottles cos little |
| 30 | Well having seen a little bit erm was on the other day and I I mean I I must admit I touch shut up you ! |