Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] a little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this end the CPL has won a little victory in its efforts to ensure that the cat is not put out with the milk bottles . |
| 2 | And one church has prepared a little presentation or mind-stretching , heart-stretching thought of church and community . |
| 3 | He has done a little bit of manipulation here and there but overall it will not boost the economy . |
| 4 | DENNIS SKINNER , the Bolsover MP who has terrorised generations of ministers from his place below the gangway , has made a little bit of history this week . |
| 5 | So the law has to play a little con-trick . |
| 6 | Instead , he has produced a little Bill which has no friends and which the House will not find — |
| 7 | ‘ It 's fine in the Ryder Cup , although that has got a little bit out of hand when nerves are stretched like the note of a piano . |
| 8 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 9 | About eighty per cent of the users are students , and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books . |
| 10 | But we also remember how that was n't sustained , and the cynical political fix of the Tories a few months later , that for the moment has coped with the government 's political crisis , and temporarily has bought a little time for a few pits . |
| 11 | As for British Steel 's monolith , at least it still stands to give a little reassurance against Teesside 's depression and unemployment ; it may be recalled that Teesside steel made North-Eastern strength . |
| 12 | To obtain a first class , one needs to do a little thinking . |
| 13 | You can feel the brake and then you pick up the feel of the tyre and it starts moving a little bit . |
| 14 | Hugh Hefner has devoted a little bit of Playboy to his new bride , Kimberley . |
| 15 | He has pinned a little square of material onto both his knees so that when he drives , the fabric of his best trousers will not rub against the steering wheel . |
| 16 | She has found a little place in the country . |
| 17 | And , indeed , as befits someone who 's hovering on the edge of idolatry , even her vocabulary has gone a little pagan ‘ Till dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the Gods who all things know ’ , and then what I think is a brilliant touch on Milton 's part , the very next line says to us ‘ Though others envy what they can not give ’ . |
| 18 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 19 | A TOWN hall wants to add a little dash to the opening of Cleveland 's first university . |
| 20 | Okay this is where it starts to get a little bit complicated . |
| 21 | Violet has mostly dug up her patch and planted vegetables in it , but she has left a little strip of grass , about three foot long , which she mows with a lawn mower she bought at a jumble sale for two pounds . |
| 22 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 23 | Erm where it has lost a little bit of the quality of the lighting is round the base . |
| 24 | The first one was community and I know , erm that Catherine was n't very happy about the community side of things and I 've looked at the the pamphlet things and it needs updating a little bit so I took the fact that the Royal Quay 's were down at our doorstep and contacted Linda who was extremely helpful and she 's put together erm , a package of things along with me , I went down last week and the first week the ninth is going to be explaining to the classes what we 're going to be doing , each form teacher will be able to do that and the sixteen and the twenty third there are visits down to the Royal Quay 's Education Centre erm for which |
| 25 | You see , especially here , that sort of erm white metal bit , the er brushed chrome sort of finish on that tends to get a little bit lost in this white background . |
| 26 | The third one up here , the small one , is a little bit sort of lost because it 's against er , this sort of cavity light here so that one tends to get a little bit lost . |
| 27 | Apparently she likes it in Hochhauser and intends to take a little holiday here — as we have already paid her fare from London . ’ |
| 28 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
| 29 | Here 's where it pays to borrow a little inspiration . |
| 30 | ‘ That means going a little way into the mountains and I do n't see how you could get lost on a mountain road . |