Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the wild they attach their canopies by a little silk pad to the plant 's stem , or a leaf : the lid is the obvious substitute for this . |
| 2 | The estate 's extensive grounds offer excellent opportunities for many pleasant walks and include a small lake where guests are permitted to try their hand at a little fishing . |
| 3 | The French boy dismissed his apology with a little motion of his hand . |
| 4 | She lifted her shoulders in a little shrug . |
| 5 | She flushed and lifted her shoulders in a little shrug . |
| 6 | He lifted his shoulders in a little Gallic shrug of helplessness and smiled . |
| 7 | Give me credit for a little intelligence at least . |
| 8 | I was partnering Sandy Lyle against Lee Trevino and Sean Connery and I was shaking so much with nerves , I could n't even balance my ball on a little wooden tee at the first . |
| 9 | However , a year or more later I got a note from Colonel Leslie Glass saying that in a report received from an officer dropped behind the Japanese lines there occurred the statement , ‘ ’ I think I ought to add that I owe my life to a little booklet entitled Rubbing Along in Burmese . ’ |
| 10 | There 's an Antiques Fair this week just along Park End Street , and I 'd got my eye on a little set of drawers , yew-wood veneer . |
| 11 | Cameron looked steadily at him for a while until Stewart turned his head with a little toss and swallowed down his wine . |
| 12 | He shook his head in a little motion of disbelief but he knew there could be no turning back . |
| 13 | To pay the bank daily to do things with it and then to start adding to those costs which a bank charges by using all these sophisticated methods when we can in fact do what most staff want , which is to give them cash in a little brown envelope on a Thursday . |
| 14 | He had them exactly where every actor who ever lived wants his public , watching his every movement , letting him dictate their lives for a little moment . |
| 15 | In 1970 — if you were eighteen and could lay your hands on a little ready money — it was almost de rigueur to travel overland to Greece where , in an idyllic island setting , you could hang out in the coolest way imaginable with amiable drug-dealers and liberated chicks . |
| 16 | And yet , look at all the old buggers that would sell their souls for a little bit of humanity like this one . |
| 17 | And wherever there was a suggestion of a space there would be a craftsman bent over his work : a weaver over his loom , a metal-worker crouched over a dish of grey ash fanning a lump of live charcoal in its midst with a blowpipe , a basket-worker holding what he was making with his toes so as to leave his hands free , a turner doing his turning with a little bow which might have been used to shoot arrows , the man making pegs for the ornate wooden windows . |
| 18 | Rory grinned , stirring his finger through a little patch of moisture on the side of his glass . |
| 19 | So I decide to hold my peace for a little while longer . |
| 20 | This time I decided to have my coffee in a little cafe not far from SIS . |
| 21 | A few weekends ago , about eight enthusiastic machine knitters wended their way towards a little village in the heart of Wiltshire called Urchfont . |
| 22 | ‘ We passed outside the city walls , and after a little walk , entered ; i green garden door , and made our way to a little plain square building , in which were arranged wooden benches , a pulpit and below the pulpit a plain wooden table and chair . |
| 23 | Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp . |
| 24 | Their enemies may well then start to temper their hatred with a little respect . |
| 25 | THE much-maligned men of the Jockey Club have found a ‘ sugar daddy ’ to boost their image with a little cosmetic surgery . |
| 26 | ( A note here to working mums : depriving your sons of a little mothering might just be doing a middle-aged woman a favour in years to come ! ) |
| 27 | But while you are still , if you like , feeling your way round a little bit , that is a very good exercise to undertake . |