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Example sentences of "up a little " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Twenty years ago , in all innocence , the occupant of my house stuck up a little fence , 15ft long , inside his own boundary .
2	Phoebe tried to build up a little guilt about his wife but failed to do so .
3	Perhaps you could lighten up a little bit . ’
4	She would have rustled up a little casserole or coq au vin while he laid the table beautifully .
5	She decided that , should such a horrific eventuality arise , she would cook up a little headache , plead ill health , and dash from the room .
6	You have to get yourself worked up a little bit , or you do n't give your best . ’
7	‘ You tied up a little bit towards the end , ’ said Ron , and that made me feel good .
8	I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it .
9	‘ We grew up a little bit as people , but also as a band .
10	‘ We have a tradition in our home of setting up a little crib and surrounding it with Nativity figures .
11	When Alejandro yelled at Perdita to tack up a little chestnut gelding , she was so nervous she could hardly do up the throat lash or adjust the stirrups .
12	‘ Long-term things are clearing up a little bit , ’ said Shilton , who is also injured .
13	‘ That slowed me up a little bit .
14	She was home but , like him , an exile : together they made up a little principality but it was inside the great metropolis .
15	Celia Hooper 's husband , Denis , had fixed up a little mirror for Peter to examine himself in before he emerged into the church .
16	It is a lot easier these days , so make up a little cocktail of compatible systemic insecticide and fungicide , plus a drip or two of washing-up detergent to achieve a good wetting , in a small bowl , and swish the two leaves of each cutting in the solution so that they get a good wetting and protective coating .
17	Twenty-five minutes later , as he climbed the steps of St Martin's-in-the-Field , he found himself offering up a little prayer , its sentiments not so very different from those of the carols this congregation would presently be singing .
18	you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of
19	Right I 'll just draw it up a little bit tighter , is that tighter for you ?
20	Some of them are pretty useless , but you do pick up a little information from each one .
21	So the people at the front yeah if if you come up a little bit closer .
22	So in order to speed it up a little bit we might need need to heat it up .
23	We 're going to have to heat it up a little bit .
24	Now we 've got a formula , so we build up a little table .
25	As she talked , Annabel picked up a little box from the bedside table ; it was an antique ebony snuffbox , the lid inlaid with a geometric pattern of tortoiseshell and ivory .
26	She picked up a little bag from the table .
27	Er a and he jazzed this up a little bit , and perhaps I think he 's gone a bit over the top on it .
28	and and erm a and build up a little bit of er text on just how good we are , and what we can produce , and how well equipped we are .
29	Might be about When we start work we could stay up a little bit later .
30	It turned out that Cedric was getting rather a lot of meat and I drew up a little chart cutting down the protein and adding extra carbohydrates .