Example sentences of "[prep] a little [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a little way I halted and looked back . |
| 2 | After a little while they got back to me and says right one 's finally broken down , the seventeen year old , it took them an hour and an half , we 've broke him down he 's admitted he 's done it . |
| 3 | They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed . |
| 4 | Adam did n't immediately realize this , but after a little while he did . |
| 5 | After a little while he and his magnates added titles 63 [ for 66 ? ] to 78 . |
| 6 | After a little while I went on to the drum with Mr Stevens ’ brother , Sid ; and then I got a full man 's money , one and eightpence , a lot o' money to take home then . |
| 7 | You only , I , after a little while I began to get bored . |
| 8 | After a little consideration I decided to take the job on . |
| 9 | After a little consideration he decided to talk to Phil Jordan . |
| 10 | Obviously the curve can face either to the left or the right , and after a little experimentation you will find which sort of curve is easiest for you to create . |
| 11 | He 'd got away with it as a result of a little snooping I did on behalf of the concerned insurance company . |
| 12 | So we got engaged and waved my family off to Australia ; he knew of a little cottage we could buy not far from his boat yard — his boat yard , ’ she said disparagingly with a little snort of disgust . |
| 13 | and the first sort of thing they ever had was just like a little screen it just went blip and that 's it , all they could tell you was there was something in their vicinity , it could n't tell you what direction it was or what height or anything . |
| 14 | For a little while they were silent and Sara 's feeling of contentment had imperceptibly increased . |
| 15 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
| 16 | The lights dim , the music starts , and just for a little while you journey into the past . |
| 17 | For a little while I was afraid I was going to land in the middle of a town , but I mercifully drifted to the edge of this . |
| 18 | I think you need to go and do something else for a little while I said cos if you keep looking over thinking you ca n't do it , have a break and go back to it afterwards you just get really despondent |
| 19 | For a little while it had amused him . |
| 20 | For a little while it was not clear that wave mechanics and matrix mechanics were different expressions of the same basic physical theory , but in fact that proved to be the case . |
| 21 | For a little while she 'd almost managed to forget about Marianne. , She should have known the other woman would n't allow that to remain the case for very long . |
| 22 | But he owed me a favour for a little job I 'd done him and I needed somewhere to stash my passport , emergency cash and one or two other goodies . |
| 23 | Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman . |
| 24 | ‘ Even as a little kid I used to gaze in motorcycle shop windows and wish I had something like this , ’ says hell for leather Jackie , from Marske near Redcar . |
| 25 | As a little compensation I begged Captain King to let us remove either to Bruny , or to Muscle Bay , which would make very little difference when once the wind set in fair , and it was accordingly settled that at daylight we should sail for Muscle Bay . ’ |
| 26 | But Louise was not a coward , even as a little girl I had understood this . |
| 27 | Clovis 's reign , Gregory claims , lasted thirty years ; with a little difficulty we can compute the dates of his accession as 481 , the defeat of Syagrius as 486 , the victory over the Alamans as 496 and the king 's death as 511 . |
| 28 | ‘ And she 's a fine shoemaker , she has real talent and with a little help she could go far . |
| 29 | Nilsson added : ‘ With a little luck I 'm sure we can go all the way . |
| 30 | I often hear and read stories of anglers spending weeks on end in search of Fenland zander with very little to show for it and yet with a little thought they could be catching on a regular basis . |