Example sentences of "given a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clean changes were possible given a little patience , but moving from first to second was reminiscent of shovelling coal — sometime the lever slid into place , sometimes it jarred my whole body . |
| 2 | As a boy I was given a little patch of our garden to cultivate . |
| 3 | Teachers want to have their privacy invaded , provided they are given a little nudge and they feel sure that there is n't going to be any ‘ comeback ’ in their school . |
| 4 | Neither the idea of " one big union " to guarantee the unskilled against blacklegging nor the notion of a closed shop and bargaining strength based on numbers alone was particularly attractive to those groups which felt that , given a little organization , they had sufficient acquired and not easily replaceable skill to bargain for themselves . |
| 5 | For this reason it is wise to keep a few in a bowl during the winter , so that they can be given a little warmth during early spring to encourage premature growth and shade the first flush of water discolouring algae , thus discouraging its growth . |
| 6 | Each time he had given a little shrug , as though to say , ‘ We 'll see ’ , and left it at that . |
| 7 | Erm on the basis that er we were , when we were setting the , the targets , the time was set by the work study personnel erm and then the operator was able to obtain a trial run on the time given er and if at the end of the work , he was satisfied that he had made the target bonus , or near enough , or if he was satisfied that , given a little extra opportunity to go back onto that job should it come back again in the near future , then he would , he would see clearly that he could make at least fifty percent er which was the target bonus , and probably more . |
| 8 | Children of 5 years upwards should do well with this program given a little supervision from an adult or older child . |
| 9 | Instead , we had the bizarre suggestion that prison order was likely to be more easily maintained if , on entering a prison , prisoners were given a little package telling them the consequences of their actions if they stepped out of line . |
| 10 | Like the situation in the Caribbean during slavery , and even in the present , where some ’ slaves ’ are put above the others , given a little bit more by the ’ slave-master ’ , and used to control the other ’ slaves ’ . |
| 11 | But as elsewhere , we are given a little ‘ staff-room ’ to relax in , and are plied with cups of tea and cigarettes at all times , to make us feel at home . |
| 12 | No , I 've got her a box of things , I did a little box up with bits in all some for fifty p and a pound , doing that up and hair bands for her , giving her , given a little box with all little bits and pieces in it |
| 13 | Erm , so I 'm hoping that that will work , it 's it 's down in the diary for him to do that , and and I 've given a little note about what the Adult School is all about . |