Example sentences of "[vb infin] a little [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please let us know a little bit about you , your personal circumstances , how you scored and what course , job or career you are now following . |
| 2 | So I have that advantage , that er , I do know a little bit about you . |
| 3 | Do some children need a little freedom from their over anxious/ambitious parents ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She said you 'd need a little break after all this bother . ’ |
| 6 | And occasionally if I was really flush , I 'd buy a little cake for another tuppence you see . |
| 7 | So after a while the wolf became bored , and decided to go and catch a little pig for his supper . |
| 8 | Supporters of the reforms ( by no means all of whom are Tories ) argue that the new curriculum will introduce a little rigour into the soppy world of sand pits and colouring books . |
| 9 | It does lack a little bit of sharpness this one . |
| 10 | I think a bit more contrast added to it would help it does lack a little bit of contrast . |
| 11 | Erm yeah I , I , it 's the idea 's there but I think it does lack a little bit of impact . |
| 12 | Next came an accusation , which Niki reports as follows , with Dennis saying , ‘ If you pay somebody such an amazing amount of money , you can surely expect a little friendship in exchange . ’ |
| 13 | With all this child sex abuse going on , why show a little girl in such a sexy , provocative way ? |
| 14 | ‘ No good going for a soldier if you ca n't show a little decision of your own . ’ |
| 15 | And of course , as I 'm the Editor and set up the rules for these features , I can cheat a little bit over costs … |
| 16 | Even the Five Nations Championship might appear a little limp after the events of the autumn , so what chance has club rugby of hanging on to any of the converts in the meantime ? |
| 17 | I see that I must do a little bargaining on my own behalf . |
| 18 | A further idea is to make a saw out of cardboard so , when the child arrives , he or she can do a little jig with the saw or , possibly better , you could put strings on the saw and have the saw doing the jig . |
| 19 | Perhaps we should do a little bit of matchmaking , ’ she suggested . |
| 20 | Five million , or if , five million , we might do a little bit of reinsuring on that one , do n't quote me . |
| 21 | and also I can do a little bit of a fiddle |
| 22 | Shall we do a little list on the computer , write it up ? |
| 23 | But then they got their own van and they did most of them , er but then again they they a called on us and said Can you come and do a little job for us ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ If each of them can just improve a little bit in 10 ways , the team will improve in a hundred ways and that 's not asking a lot of them . ’ |
| 26 | This might give a little pause to those who dogmatically believe that poverty is a direct consequence of ‘ overpopulation ’ . |
| 27 | Erm I will give a little bit of history of dates , and what things were altered and when in a bit . |
| 28 | Now let's give a little bit of er of information . |
| 29 | He did give a little shove to a defender who was shielding Wallace from the ball as it was running thru to Coton , but Coton could nt hold it anyway so IMO it did nt affect the ‘ goal ’ . |
| 30 | He watched her blush , and imagined he could actually feel a little glow of heat on his own skin , radiating off her warmth . |