Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] a little [noun sg] " 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 | Instead , he has produced a little Bill which has no friends and which the House will not find — |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Hugh Hefner has devoted a little bit of Playboy to his new bride , Kimberley . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She has found a little place in the country . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | Erm where it has lost a little bit of the quality of the lighting is round the base . |
| 17 | The powder 's just gone it 's dissolved a little bit but it 's not really doing much on its own . |
| 18 | and he 's made a little sort of bird house |
| 19 | He 's got a little sense ! |
| 20 | She 's got a little girl , Marie has . |
| 21 | And because she 's got a little girl , people think we 're friends or sisters . |
| 22 | He 's got a little kid in one hand and he 's walking out of a burning building . |
| 23 | She could n't leave them any money because all she had was an annuity that would come to an end when she died , but Mister Johnny 's got a little bit that his parents left him and Hepzibah makes some from the poultry , so they should have just enough . |
| 24 | That title is perhaps a not quite as straight as it might be , it 's got a little bit of a kink in it . |
| 25 | Oh it 's got a little bit to go yet |
| 26 | He 's got a little bit of a split lip cos every time he either smiles a lot or bangs it slightly it just opens up . |
| 27 | Well yeah he is , he 's got a little bit anyway |
| 28 | That 's not it 's got a little bit of erm |
| 29 | on that side but it 's got a little bit of black on it , do you reckon that 's anything to do with it ? |
| 30 | Because I still think this is very much discriminating on the , people like Val for example , I know she 's got a little bit of scale two but I still think the reception is such a big responsibility |