Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | I crept off down a little path through curling bracken . |
| 2 | Dazed , I looked down at a little girl with wide , solemn eyes . |
| 3 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 4 | She woke up with a little start , wiping the corner of her mouth with her hand . |
| 5 | The , the way the hills get lighter as you go through until we get right to the back and you finish up with a little bit of erm very light cloud beyond the hills in the distance . |
| 6 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 7 | She lay back with a little thud and for a few minutes they were both silent . |
| 8 | ‘ Will you come back with a little rum in about ten minutes … ? ’ |
| 9 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 10 | John agreed this , which is why we finished up with a little model set showing the chimney behind the wall , down which a miniature Voord could be thrown . ’ |
| 11 | We fell out for a little while but I mean , playing loud but I mean upstairs is fine . |
| 12 | We went off to a little restaurant she knew near Leicester Square . |
| 13 | Harrods probably has one they send out in a little green van . |
| 14 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
| 15 | It started out as a little ripple in the sea then it became an enormous wave it rose into the air then smashed against the breaker , the breaker broke into two . |
| 16 | Julie holds the doll up high ‘ to get all the water from inside her ’ and is fascinated to watch it stream out from a little hole in the doll 's big toe . |
| 17 | He comes up with a little piece of advice on how to make that picture , or the colouring , or the mounting better . |
| 18 | He comes back with a little piece of paper in his hand waving it , peace in our time . |
| 19 | Before he came along we 'd mess around with songs like ‘ Build Me Up Buttercup ’ , with me fiddling around on a little clavinet that we 'd found knocking around somewhere and Steve singing . |