Example sentences of "doing a little [noun] " in BNC.

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1 so I think you could almost enjoy doing a little diagram like that , could n't you ?
2 He was still looking down and still doing a little dance .
3 And I was going like this doing a little dance on the ladder trying to find the next rung and the ladder was doing a little dance on the wall .
4 And I was going like this doing a little dance on the ladder trying to find the next rung and the ladder was doing a little dance on the wall .
5 I 've stayed at my desk until half past seven , writing up the minutes of our meeting at the Treasury — even doing a little preparation for a series of consultations I have to begin tomorrow in connection with the Annual Assessment .
6 He was doing a little minuet and he starts finding out things about his body .
7 ‘ The easiest thing to do would be to piecemeal together a career of some commentating , corporation outings , being a spokesperson , doing a little bit of the tennis politics , doing some coaching for the USTA .
8 If , if you get it if you get it everyone has it I think I 'm doing a little bit what we did last night Excuse me .
9 It 's no use doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that and getting absolutely nowhere , because you 'll get the two finger job .
10 Well we have production course you have made your appointment to see Mr and Mrs who are existing clients of , you will now conduct the first appointment starting with greeting and appropriate sociability which is the first part of step one , through to producing the C C Q and then further copy pages two and four of the attached C C Q in your booklet , so two and four are er we 've got four and two , the personal details and may be the wrong way round there , so it 's advisable to say you complete the first part of it , page two and then the employment details okay , so you doing a little bit of exploring there so if you like you can be doing all of step one and a little bit of step two , buying in this particular role playing .
11 Yeah I , one of the , yeah yeah , I to started off doing a little bit like that but you find things do n't actually sit in categories very well that 's becomes one of the problems .
12 Now we 're doing a little bit of reversion and it is much regret by God for five years I have negotiated budgets with the Labour group against intense opposition to Conservatives and central government to improve the services in Oxfordshire .
13 Add these facts to the evidence displayed in the charts section ( pages 65 to 73 ) at the back of the magazine ) of the variety of interest rates charged by the lenders and it is no wonder that a £100,000 borrower can save the price of a new car simply by doing a little homework .
14 And if you were doing a little programme on , on yogurt and they were sort of going at it absolutely straight for the ‘ You watch this and you 're going to do that and you 're going to do the other ’ .
15 You might think that laying a simple path through the garden does n't require much thought , but time spent doing a little planning never goes amiss .
16 One interpretation must be that voluntary work is viewed as rather less significant , in the sense that some old person doing a little forest conservation is less likely to be as dangerous as the ancient quack prescribing cupping or the antiquated magistrate consigning culprits to the stocks .
17 The feeling only lasted a second , but from the way Tanetoa , Belial 's Samoan cook , flinched , some thirty feet away , Bernice guessed that Legion 's voice was doing a little travelling .
18 She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time .
19 She smiled , and did n't care a bit then that when it came to leading Travis up the garden path , she was doing a little garden path trail-blazing herself .
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