Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secure the long bullrush leaves around the pond , sticking on with a little fondant . |
| 2 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 3 | Basically , I just sit down with a little Pignose amp and a tape recorder and play all night . ’ |
| 4 | Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another . |
| 5 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 6 | Then there is the decay of the tree which sometimes holds on to a little bit of life well past when it should die completely . |
| 7 | Cut the rich fruit cake in half diagonally and place one half on top of the other to form a triangle , sandwiching on with a little apricot glaze . |
| 8 | He never wrote entirely admiring reviews : ‘ It 's the essence of a book never to be perfect , ’ he said , ‘ so its writer must expect to come in for a little criticism . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ No hitches so far , and he 's even come up with a little bonus on the side . |
| 10 | Harrods probably has one they send out in a little green van . |
| 11 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 12 | We were looking down into a little valley like a green cup in the hills . |
| 13 | When the clock struck , the preacher came down from a little room behind the platform , followed by ten or a dozen men who looked like prosperous City merchants . |
| 14 | There was another one came in with a little bit of a strain yesterday morning , so what 've done this morning , we 've just had a collective training session and we 've told them to report at quarter to eleven in the morning . |
| 15 | She woke up with a little start , wiping the corner of her mouth with her hand . |
| 16 | I crept off down a little path through curling bracken . |
| 17 | Position this on the drum , fixing on with a little water . |
| 18 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 19 | Finally , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum , securing on with a little glue or royal icing . |
| 20 | Finally , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum , securing on with a little glue or royal icing . |
| 21 | Finally , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum , securing on with a little spare royal icing . |
| 22 | Finally , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum , securing on with a little glue or royal icing . |
| 23 | Sniff , run down with a little milk for them . ’ |
| 24 | Then , late in the evening , my new friend turned up with a little white pill for each of us . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The , the way the hills get lighter as you go through until we get right to the back and you finish up with a little bit of erm very light cloud beyond the hills in the distance . |
| 27 | ‘ I shall miss you all and often think of the baby , growing up into a little girl . |
| 28 | When you wind your way around the picturesque Lincoln Half-marathon course , look out for a little chap dressed in green who 'll be running backwards . |
| 29 | So that 's why I 'm going around with a little machine and a microphone on |
| 30 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |