Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] in a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | so it 's all hot on the plate and served straight away you know , luckily erm I managed it but I got in a little bit of a flap I will admit it whereas Shirl 's now got used to that I mean I when we first came we both used to do our own help each other out I used to help out but erm |
| 2 | I stopped in a little restaurant and ordered a hot dog by pointing at a picture of one that hung over the greasy counter . |
| 3 | I walked off the ship , and I slept in a little house near the sea . |
| 4 | So I slept in a little damp attic room which smelt of apples , my head not very far away from the dream-troubled heads of Shelley and his mistress . |
| 5 | Cos her sons had got married and she lived in a little bu flat , bungalow rather . |
| 6 | When he turned his head to look at her , his eyes flat and grey , she added in a little rush , ‘ I did n't feel anything for him . |
| 7 | And I 'm parked on a yellow line , and it 's raining — and I 'm Elinor Browne , with an ‘ E ’ , ’ she concluded in a little rush . |
| 8 | In the summer , he lived in a little house surrounded by sunflowers higher than it was , beside a village with a pale blue pump in the centre , with geese marching around , pigeons gurgling ( they have a different accent on the Continent ) and people sitting on walls gossiping in the evening . |
| 9 | Yet even on the tapes of the talks , considerably less gilded than the memoranda , it let in a little light for a moment . |
| 10 | In order to facilitate a quick arrest under difficult circumstances — ‘ the crowd was jeering and becoming unpleasantly restive ’ — Robert Mark then confesses that he indulged in a little police brutality , by using his strictly non-regulation rubber truncheon to give the offender ‘ a hefty whack on the shin' which apparently broke his leg . |
| 11 | He put in a little stone trough to catch the water from a stream at the back , and bought a fireplace with an iron range oven and grate , especially for Walker Hall . |
| 12 | Tony ate his meals in the kitchen and he slept in a little room at the top of the farmhouse . |
| 13 | It stood in a little square with dying trees around it . |