Example sentences of "may [verb] a little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may hurt a little bit . |
| 2 | Some children will want a cuddle as they will have become very upset ; others may want a little sleep as they will have exhausted themselves . |
| 3 | The trainer , who sent out Generous to win two Classics and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes last year , is looking for a replacement and although Magic Ring may fall a little bit short of that high mark , he is a most interesting contender for the major three-year-old races . |
| 4 | To recognize implications you may need a little knowledge of the topic , so familiarize yourself with the information by reading your notes or textbooks . |
| 5 | Once you 've stopped dieting your periods will return , but you may need a little help if you want to have a baby … ‘ |
| 6 | They may need a little time to think about it , but they 'll try most things once . |
| 7 | But the existing offspring may benefit more , may need a little bit of extra milk , so the existing offspring may try to erm , demand more milk , or at least milk for longer than the mother to supply . |
| 8 | You can adopt an ant for £20 — which some people may consider a little extreme , considering a scorpion will sting you for the same amount . |
| 9 | The important thing is that if you get up at night to have a wee , you beware that you may feel a little bit lightheaded , so you get up slowly , sit on the edge of the bed , you stand up slowly , and when you 're happy you 're off , off you go . |
| 10 | Smallholders in sheltered , low areas in the south-East of Britain , may grow a little maize in the vegetable garden ; otherwise the crop is of little interest to them . |
| 11 | I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life . |
| 12 | A lioness , having caught a gazelle , may not kill it but drag it back alive to her cubs and give it to them so that , crippled though it is , the cubs may have a little practice in how to bring it down . |
| 13 | Dryness produces tickling , leading to a dry , barking cough ; violent cough and may produce a little blood stained mucus . |
| 14 | The main rule is ‘ be nosey ’ — and this may take a little practice if you 're looking at secondhand ( ie other people 's ) homes . |
| 15 | It may take a little practice , there may be a telephone box or a house or two to remove but it 's not as difficult as it sounds . |
| 16 | The man regarded by Peter Swales , at Manchester City , as a little dull , introduced himself at Oakwell by saying : ‘ It may take a little time , but I can assure you that we will get promotion within three years . ’ |
| 17 | It may take a little time to adjust to anything , from strange surroundings to a new mattress . |
| 18 | So it helps first of all when you 're setting up the spreadsheet I suppose you can create one formula then copy it instead of having to edit each one individually , erm but later on you might accidentally or maybe deliberately in some cases overtype a cell and er if you have to put it back again and what you probably do is copy it from the adjacent cell and then you have to study the formula to try and understand it , and then edit it if it was n't the copyable formula and , er it may take a little time to edit it but it could take you a lot longer to understand it . |
| 19 | If there is some improvement , persist for another month or two — the Candida is slowly dying of starvation , and it may take a little while to finish it off entirely . |
| 20 | It may take a little while for the bowel motions to become settled into a regular pattern . |
| 21 | However , it may take a little planning at first . |
| 22 | And if they recommend that , that may mean a little bit of trip , down to either Nottingham or perhaps even Derby , |
| 23 | Dysentery like diarrhoea with awful tenesmus ; they may pass a little blood or green slime . |
| 24 | So I ask you to be open minded they may seem a little bit off the wall to start with , but everything that we do is done for a purpose to achieve er what we 're wanting to achieve and what I do want to achieve is by the end of tomorrow is to have given you a system . |
| 25 | Well it may save a little time . |
| 26 | During the second six months he can , and may get a little work ; but until at least a year after the end of pupillage he will probably have to live on his parents or spouse . |
| 27 | As we may have to wait even until the summer , tempers may get a little tetchy , as last night 's closing session proved . |
| 28 | He wrote it for the young men who were dying in the war , but the words may offer a little comfort . |