Example sentences of "[adv] in a little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As each person dies , he does so in a little skirmish of the platoon that is parallel to , and reflects , one of the four major disastrous battles of the war — Dunkirk , Dieppe , Alamein and Arnhem — which is shown in tinted black-and-white footage , some of which we shot and some of it archive material . |
| 2 | ‘ It says so in a little book I got from Our Lady 's Bookshop . |
| 3 | ‘ James is coming down in a little while , Christina . |
| 4 | Clifford has now brought a collection of his aphorisms together in a little book entitled ‘ One Hundred Aphorisms ’ . |
| 5 | A little walled garden , with a few pollarded lime trees in it , and one or two urns and busts , and a solitary policeman tucked away in a little sentry-box inside the gateway . |
| 6 | Her voice tailed away in a little shrug of the shoulders that was like a shudder . |
| 7 | She wanted to eat her cake and have it , put Georg away in a little box for the future , when she 'd finished having a good time . |
| 8 | like in a little square , I 've got a load of them in there , I 'll just use that one of them |
| 9 | And I 'll show you a bit more in a little while . |
| 10 | Accordingly , we wrap it up in a little computer procedure , label it DEVELOPMENT , and prepare to embed it in a larger program labelled EVOLUTION . |
| 11 | " To bed , " she said decisively , " I 'll have some tea sent up in a little while . " |
| 12 | Coming up in a little while we 'll be talking greyhounds , but for now we 'll go back to football and deal with the local classified results with all the local leagues . |
| 13 | As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry . |
| 14 | or they came by something where somebody turned up in a little van that was n't a Post Office van and I had to sign . |
| 15 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll be back in a little while , ’ Claire said . |
| 17 | I 'll be back in a little while |
| 18 | He 'll be around in a little while . |
| 19 | Yeah , but people can do it even in a little way |
| 20 | She is the widow of a life peer but is referred to throughout as ‘ Lady Julie ’ — the author indulging here in a little Pom-teasing . |
| 21 | He seemed to regard the New Testament as a stormy sea in which he was tossed about in a little boat as he explored . |
| 22 | Oh yeah , walk down there in a little while . |
| 23 | We smuggled it across in a little plane from Blackpool . ’ |
| 24 | You know he 's going into the country so I 'm to go too and I 'll live nearby in a little room or a shed , for I 'm going to put my life in order , I 'm crazed with living in London and in the pubs and getting drunk every day , no wonder I could n't write poetry , for I could n't think . |
| 25 | Does your abdomen bulge forward in a little pot shape ? |
| 26 | As for the gossip , though , DisInformation was eavesdropping recently in a little wine bar it knows somewhere in the heart of the South 's Thatcherland . |
| 27 | Whole ones need only be fried lightly in a little butter and served hot with a wedge of lemon . |
| 28 | Erm place called Tarleton actually in a little village . |