Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time I was becoming a little dissatisfied with the imprinting set-up that had become the stock in trade of my lab over the past few years , and I planned to try using an alternative form of learning in the chick . |
| 2 | The spreadsheet currently looks a little fussy by showing durations to six decimal places . |
| 3 | This is not a great Springbok side , indeed sometimes it looks a little short of being good . |
| 4 | Even the worst criminal has a little good in him . |
| 5 | Merton has a previously undreamed of knack of the one-minute , long-winded trainspotter diatribe . |
| 6 | Gomez 's slight smile was that of a man who believed that politeness demanded he act a little embarrassed at doing his job . |
| 7 | I have always felt a little uncomfortable about the interim stage . |
| 8 | I might have felt a little downcast at that point , only the evening had made me feel more encouraged about my prospects with her than I 'd felt for some time . |
| 9 | We closed rapidly and I opened fire at about 800 yards sighting a little high at first to allow for the distance and then dropping my bead to centre on the machine . |
| 10 | His force was ambushed a little short of its objective and he was killed by the French and their Indian allies . |
| 11 | They both glanced down at her cotton jersey skirt and matching aqua-blue blouse , and Belinda saw , as he must have seen , that the outfit was looking a little tired at this stage in the day . |
| 12 | Having settled Rachel in a corner and piled our luggage round her and left you , Mig , on guard , I struggled back against the refugees and climbed the gangway again to find Tim looking a little bewildered in the midst of a seething mass of humanity but remarkably calm , and soon we were back on the small boat . |
| 13 | She 'd feel a little sorry for the little girl if she blacked out in the race and fell under all those hooves . |
| 14 | You might feel a little guilty about taking someone else 's cherries , but you might also take one or two from the side and hope that the rightful owner would n't notice . |
| 15 | Thank you , i do you feel a little uneasy at changing operational requirements based on er an assessment of a threat in nineteen ninety two , ninety three , which I presume would have to remain valid until two thousand and twenty . |
| 16 | Dorian liked him , but why did he feel a little afraid of him ? |
| 17 | The sleeves of the cotte were grown a little short on him , but that was no great damage . |
| 18 | If you photographed a dead Marine with a poncho over his face and got paid for it , you were some kind of parasite . ’ |
| 19 | The first description seemed a little vague to us , but Bill McMahon , of auctioneers and valuers Outhwaite and Litherland , made an educated guess . |
| 20 | He was , by all accounts , a bit spooky and seemed a little distant from the other guards , perhaps because he was a representative from Tehran . |
| 21 | We continued fishing and although it went quiet for me Rick did have another two cats at 17lb 12oz and 12lb 8oz , but both seemed a little insignificant in the light of previous events . |
| 22 | The College seemed a little unsure of itself . |
| 23 | Big softy or not , it seemed a little foolish to even consider a 1.25″ female with a 6″ male , so I decided to wait until she was rather larger . |
| 24 | But in fact , because I showed no fear , there was no danger , and the cat even seemed a little afraid of me . |
| 25 | In January , Chris Benstead , a freelance percussionist , who has already run a very successful with our trainers , will be with us all day , both to accompany a class ( which I can promise you will be quite an experience ) and to run practical workshops . |
| 26 | Generally comprising a gently undulating to rugged low-lying peneplain , and local valley and hillsides and lower mountain slopes , the terrain includes non-rocky gently undulating land ( similar to the till-covered landscape in Lewis ) , slightly to moderately rocky land with a variety of slopes , and very rocky land with rock pavements or abundant rocky knolls and ridges . |
| 27 | The subjects can look a little ridiculous to us too , the old-fashioned costumes , the strange practice of sunbathing standing up ! |
| 28 | Even though it may look a little rough on the screen , when it prints out it will all be reproduced correctly through the magic of PostScript . |
| 29 | He was a big , dark , heavy man something in the manner of a friendly black bear , going a little thin on top . |
| 30 | You can buy oval frames made from plastic , but they are usually not very well finished and will not do a lot to improve your design , or wood , which in my opinion is always worth paying a little extra for . |