Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [art] little time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a little time ‘ fishing ’ these to the back and either tying off , or sewing in . |
| 2 | I very nearly took you then and there , standing up , in a cold dark cave … after that I needed a little time to sort through my feelings , sabiha tieghi … ’ |
| 3 | I took a little time off in Rome to do some shopping . |
| 4 | It was fortunate that I had a little time to accustom myself to being in such a place and to the thought of seeing my father . |
| 5 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 6 | I think of all those using this channel : – people who gave generously , of their good money ; people who gave their physical strength ; people who gave limitless time ( even their annual leave from work ) ; people who managed a little time after work ; people who baked ; people who prayed ; the member who supplied the entire plant stall ; people who counted ; the little girl who devised an amusing quiz as her ‘ channel ’ ; people who served , and often withstood the cold winds of George Street ; people who used their artistic talents for communication ; people who lovingly restored the Church afterwards ; our engineer , who invented a ‘ chair-lift ’ for us , and then , literally , put his shoulder to the wheel – and the bright spark who had fired him with the notion ; and finally and uniquely , the couple in Trinity , part of whose house is always given over to storing books so that this channel may be kept open . |
| 7 | When she first joined the company , packing vitamins and herbal medicines three years ago , she took a little time to get used to the work . |
| 8 | When William had gone , she thought of all the things she had planned to do as soon as she had a little time to herself . |
| 9 | It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer . |
| 10 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 11 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 12 | It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep . |
| 13 | It took a little time for employers to depersonalize personal computers . |
| 14 | Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume . |
| 15 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 16 | After leaving the Navy , it took a little time to become used to a normal bed again , as the hammock had proved to be such an ideal sleeping arrangement . |
| 17 | It took a little time , but er , eventually he got it , and now I 'm delighted to say he 's one of the most organised managers on earth . |