Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll be here for only a little while and I prefer to stick to formality . ’ |
| 2 | I was awake for just a little while and I could tell — ’ |
| 3 | I think I need to put the immersion on for just a little while . |
| 4 | No no no it 's a well taken goal and and that 's that 's what he was looking for just a little touch on . |
| 5 | And I like the inclusion too , of just a little bit of jewellery , not too much . |
| 6 | Everyone has the gift of life — and for the sake of just a little pain over a week it 's a wonderful opportunity to take . |
| 7 | The variety ‘ Queen Elizabeth ’ is a case in point and is the cause of not a little correspondence . |
| 8 | Daisy Chainsaw try to shock and scare and upset as art terrorists detonating nailbombs in the nursery , subverting our notions of how a little girly and her backing bullies should behave , and fail dismally . |
| 9 | I gave him a smile with perhaps a little cruelty at its edges . |
| 10 | It is certainly not if we keep to rigid serial usages , but with only a little modification we may produce harmonic results which suit well enough . |
| 11 | For instance , on a fast slalom type board , with only a little tail lift , the foot will have to be placed further back than on a wave board where the rocker line resembles a banana . |
| 12 | It was a phrase spontaneously recalled by someone with only a little English . |
| 13 | If the quotation used by the qualitative sociologist is not too far from the heightened dialogue of the literary artist , it follows that , with only a little licence , one may use the work of at least some novelists much as one might use that of fellow ethnographers . |
| 14 | Taking the roll of tools out of my stout and well travelled haversack , I unscrewed the plate with only a little difficulty and put it into the haversack . |
| 15 | But now , with only a little while to go before she must join him in the sitting-room , she was starting to have second thoughts about the wisdom of accepting . |
| 16 | I can now go past a tractor with only a little twinge . |
| 17 | The rain in the west will continue into the evening but most other parts should stay dry , with only a little cloud and mist in the east towards morning . |
| 18 | She set off with only a little food and she had n't gone far when a small boy appeared right in the middle of the road . |
| 19 | It was a normal delivery , with only a little entonox at the end — something I felt really happy about as our daughter had been breech and delivered by caesarean section after a horrid , induced labour . |
| 20 | With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power . |
| 21 | I am sure that with only a little effort of the imagination you can understand how these things can grow , can become set . |
| 22 | Dr Meredith had already been sent for , but his lordship was of the view that my father should be moved out of the sun before the doctor 's arrival ; consequently , a bath-chair arrived and with not a little difficulty , my father was transported into the house . |
| 23 | But it has to be remembered that he was now being treated by many people with extreme deference , mixed , with not a little nervousness , and it is very difficult to behave normally in such circumstances . |
| 24 | ‘ That guy 's putting is uncanny , ’ I said with not a little feeling and not a little envy . |
| 25 | By the end of 1954 Nato , though with not a little reluctance , was agreeing to the new strategy . |
| 26 | WITH JUST A LITTLE THOUGHT AND PLANNING , YOUR GARDEN CAN BE THE PERFECT PLACE TO ENTERTAIN FRIENDS ON WARM EVENINGS . |
| 27 | He lived and played and wrote and toured frenetically for the next couple of years , working night and day — with just a little help from Benzedrine , Methedrine , and anything else that would speed him up or slow him down . |
| 28 | And with a record of ‘ at least 60 per cent repeat business all the year round , including weekends ’ , the have definitely got the hospitality formula right … with just a little help from their friends ! |
| 29 | They would sing Welsh songs together , she would take up the descant , he would make up verses with just a little edge to them . |
| 30 | all , just hardboard like that , with just a little O like that and you , you , you shout a pint of beer and you pushed your money through and then a beer ca came out the other side ! |