Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] a little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | That 's a I I had to do a little bit of er adaption work on the on the curtain rail put that on . |
2 | And to show we were serious I had to leave a little reminder . ’ |
3 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
4 | I had prepared a little note , written in my smallest writing , and I slipped it into the envelope when he was n't looking . |
5 | There she had arranged a little altar , flowers and candles . |
6 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
7 | She had done a little freelance journalism for such magazines as Horse and Hound , The Field and Country Life . |
8 | She had found a little beach not far from the lodge , but hard enough to reach that she was mostly by herself . |
9 | Already she had put a little distance between them ! |
10 | Er if , if you , if you had , you had to dig a little hole in , in the , in the , by the wall on the , on the pavement like that to hold about sixty four marbles say , and you 'd start off and say , give or give or take give or take as a lawyer , I used to have four marbles , and whoever was taken that was a lawyer of four marbles , I do n't know why . |
11 | She had seen Billy enter the dining rooms in front of her as she returned from the park with Rachel , and the sight of him had sent a little shiver through her body . |
12 | They had erected a little shelter , an old curtain spread across one corner of the balcony and held up by a clothes horse and a chair . |
13 | People ran from the blocks to the lavatories and back with pinched faces and sat in their rooms wishing they had saved a little coal . |
14 | Each time he had given a little shrug , as though to say , ‘ We 'll see ’ , and left it at that . |
15 | Where he had felt a little pang — outside , horse-held , self-wrapt — now , delighted by the truculence of her conversation , he was ravenous . |
16 | He had put a little bronze foundation on his face — a sample from one of the magazines . |
17 | Once he had recovered a little strength he ended his address with a quotation from Archbishop Leighton : " " How small a commotion , small in its beginning , may prove the overturning of the greatest kingdom ! |
18 | After he had walked a little distance , he noticed that the concrete slabs underfoot were glistening damply in the torch light from the constant dripping of moisture seeping through the joints in the roof from the earth above . |