Example sentences of "[adv prt] in a little [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ James is coming down in a little while , Christina . |
| 2 | Accordingly , we wrap it up in a little computer procedure , label it DEVELOPMENT , and prepare to embed it in a larger program labelled EVOLUTION . |
| 3 | " To bed , " she said decisively , " I 'll have some tea sent up in a little while . " |
| 4 | Coming up in a little while we 'll be talking greyhounds , but for now we 'll go back to football and deal with the local classified results with all the local leagues . |
| 5 | As far as I know , there are only two still in existence : one , the U.505 , was captured by an American task force towards the end of the war , towed up the St Lawrence and through the Great Lakes to Chicago where a special cradle was built for it to cross the Lake Shore Drive and then set up in a little house of its own in the Museum of Science and Industry . |
| 6 | or they came by something where somebody turned up in a little van that was n't a Post Office van and I had to sign . |
| 7 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll be back in a little while , ’ Claire said . |
| 9 | I 'll be back in a little while |
| 10 | He 'll be around in a little while . |
| 11 | He seemed to regard the New Testament as a stormy sea in which he was tossed about in a little boat as he explored . |