Example sentences of "i [verb] a little time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a little time ‘ fishing ’ these to the back and either tying off , or sewing in . |
| 2 | ‘ Can I have a little time to think it over ? ’ |
| 3 | I very nearly took you then and there , standing up , in a cold dark cave … after that I needed a little time to sort through my feelings , sabiha tieghi … ’ |
| 4 | I took a little time off in Rome to do some shopping . |
| 5 | It was fortunate that I had a little time to accustom myself to being in such a place and to the thought of seeing my father . |
| 6 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 7 | But before I talk in more detail about how we hope to raise this money let me spend a little time explaining why I feel that this appeal is so vital to children everywhere . |