Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were heading for a little cluster of figures round something on the beach . |
| 2 | They were shown to a little table , where they would have to sit side by side . |
| 3 | The priests were shepherded into a little knot . |
| 4 | All of the drums were marked with a little skull and crossbones symbol . |
| 5 | They were put into a little room , no more than a cubicle , where there were two kitchen-chairs and a table with a few magazines . |
| 6 | Twenty minutes later they were sitting in a little restaurant drinking retsina . |
| 7 | And we were living in very a abnormal times , and women were snatching at a little bit of happiness they could get , you know this is what it was . |
| 8 | Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above . |
| 9 | Naturally , such matters were kept from a little girl ; there was only the squalling of the new baby upstairs , the coming and going of a starched nurse , the funeral — the black ostrich feathers on the horses ’ heads intrigued Dinah , who felt no grief at all for the occasionally met-with , plaintive lady who had , as they put it , passed away — and the sound of one 's own voice , strong and resonant in the empty room . |
| 10 | ‘ Corsages were kept in a little drop of water , ’ Harry explained , ‘ but you ca n't plunge a bouquet in a drop of water , so I put them over a bowl of water supported by two canes . |
| 11 | The clinic was situated in a little nameless square off Fo Street , wedged in next to the Ministry of Light Industry . |
| 12 | Rory laughed , just as his attention was caught by a little white blossom lying on the road surface in front of them . |
| 13 | He had a bald , egg-shaped top to his head ; it was surrounded by a little fringe of grey hair , soft as a duck 's tail . |
| 14 | Tom Tedder and Corbett Farraday were muttering by the door which led into the main school ; the headmaster , towering yet crumpled , was surrounded by a little group of teachers in the centre of his hall ; and by the door leading to the boarding quarters Mrs Crumwallis was going over the events of the night before with her cook , Mrs Garfitt . |
| 15 | In a famous Victorian poem , the fly was depicted as a little man with ‘ rainbows on his wings , a black and brown gown laced around his waist ’ . |
| 16 | Swayne wore rust-coloured trousers and a matching pullover , his movements were erratic , rapid yet precise , so that Wycliffe was reminded of a little red monkey . |
| 17 | An altercation took place at the entrance to the circuit when the irascible John McDonald sought to block the bus with his car — the idea of drivers striking and being independent of their owners struck him as positively mediaeval — but was resolved by a little gentle persuasion and a show of force by an angry Jacques Laffite . |
| 18 | This wonderful program was written for a little girl called Amy . |
| 19 | After an interval he heard someone coming downstairs , bolts were drawn and the door was opened by a little man with freckles and vestiges of red hair . |
| 20 | At the back it was stained with a little blood , and in the rough texture of the wool I found fragments of tinder from the broken branch . |
| 21 | At that moment both constables ' attention was distracted by a little boy who was overcome with curiosity about the working of a fire-engine . |
| 22 | Once or twice Ruth took Enoch with her and on one occasion the woman on the upper deck was accompanied by a little girl . |
| 23 | Fletcher said : ‘ Phil asked to move away from his position on the boundary because he was hit by a little battery and also had more of those and the odd bottle thrown at him . |
| 24 | I was sitting outside a little café in Avignon enjoying a quiet glass of Pernod when I first saw Emily . |
| 25 | Endill opened his eyes slowly and found he was standing in a little room made entirely of books . |
| 26 | ‘ Come on , ’ he says , like he was talking to a little kid . |
| 27 | He interrupted Michael as if he was talking to a little child . |
| 28 | Yeah that was I mean them , men , men were working like we was talking about a little while ago about head bags |
| 29 | Then , course then they used to hav when the man stood in green , I knew a fella named which we was talking about a little while ago and he had a pair of lady 's stockings which he used to put over his shoes to stop the grain going in and some of these people in the and , they used to have erm , like er string soles with like calico boots and they used to tie them on tight . |
| 30 | One or two of the excellent ones was spent , was spoiled by a little bit of er need to erm edit very carefully introdu introduction of concepts you must be careful not to , if you 've got a couple of hundred words only , but do n't introduce er concepts diversity of design must of been er a phrase picked up from the video itself because it appeared in two or three of them , but it 's no use talking about diversity and divine is it , de design as if , as if it 's a concept which everybody else is going to understand . |