Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a little way I halted and looked back . |
| 2 | For a few second I was n't sure which side had won . |
| 3 | As a former reporter I devour newsprint with the appetite of a motorised refuse truck , but some of the garbage that has been written about myself and other women MPs deserves instant binning . |
| 4 | Clovis 's reign , Gregory claims , lasted thirty years ; with a little difficulty we can compute the dates of his accession as 481 , the defeat of Syagrius as 486 , the victory over the Alamans as 496 and the king 's death as 511 . |
| 5 | ‘ And she 's a fine shoemaker , she has real talent and with a little help she could go far . |
| 6 | Nilsson added : ‘ With a little luck I 'm sure we can go all the way . |
| 7 | I often hear and read stories of anglers spending weeks on end in search of Fenland zander with very little to show for it and yet with a little thought they could be catching on a regular basis . |
| 8 | With a little knowledge you can make very healthy changes to your diet without having to alter radically your whole way of eating . |
| 9 | At first sight these symbols look very formidable , but with a little practice they can be mastered and understood . |
| 10 | With a little practice you should be able to brew 40 pints of good cheap beer in less than three hours ' work . |
| 11 | But with a little practice you can be near the top of the scale . |
| 12 | Working in this way , with a little practice you will be able to build a complete chart very quickly . |
| 13 | Follow our guidance and with a little practice you will find your notes transformed into a neat , annotated system of stored information that is readily available for retrieval when wanted . |
| 14 | With a little practice it is possible to generate complete sentences instantly by simply calling up a string of stored phonemes . |
| 15 | With a little practice she 'll halve that time ! |
| 16 | With a little effort she managed to be reasonably amiable throughout supper , even refraining from a caustic retort when he complimented her cooking . |
| 17 | The plan started to work within a few day he became shy and nervous of humans even at feeding times . |
| 18 | ‘ In a little way it did , because we did really want to keep it small . |
| 19 | Germany 's World Cup maestro believes that in a former life he popped up as a plant — or an animal . |
| 20 | A PUB landlord was attacked by a former customer he had barred days before , a court heard . |