Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] a little " in BNC.

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1 John Watkins University Press I think there 's a copy in the library erm , you may want to have a little look at it , but so what we 're going do is we incorporate both these two hypothesis into a model supply response okay .
2 Perhaps we should try showing a little tolerance towards each other .
3 Just like to , we should have had a little bit of discussion there but we 're moving quickly .
4 We must have touched a little spot there I think Stan .
5 He must have made a little joke .
6 I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself
7 Then you 'll enjoy seeing a little bit more of it . ’
8 Not Tristan though , who might like to flirt a little and might not run too fast should he be himself pursued but who was certainly no beast of prey .
9 I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime .
10 We 'll have to do a little detective work on it .
11 We 'll have to do a little pas de deux here and turn the car around .
12 Another example of that for instance , and this is something we 'll , we 'll have to wait a full explanation of this we 'll have to wait a little bit later itself .
13 He was about to return the compliment by suggesting that she might have lost a little weight when she leaned across and helped herself to another jam tart .
14 Danger — AAW always makes it clear what 's going on , but splitting a command into two by asking ‘ with what ? ’ might have worked a little bit better but then again , you ca n't have it all can you ?
15 At the same time she 'd need to ring a little hand-bell .
16 I 'd like to put a little business down his way .
17 I 'd like to say a little bit about this table .
18 ‘ Well , I — I 'd like to wait a little while , I suppose . ’
19 Sit down , my dear , I 'd like to have a little chat with you .
20 I 'd like to have a little talk with you . ’
21 A lot of people in those streets ( they were very poor , but they were very proud ) and on the steps leading up to the house , they 'd have laid a little piece of lino , three pieces or two .
22 Which could be a bit nasty , you know and then she 'd say buy a little bag for me , a chick , a chick , a chick , a chickita
23 The rules for this are complicated , but you can claim various reliefs , so you may have to pay a little or nothing , particularly if you sell within three years .
24 So in the long run I think his objectivity may have helped a little bit .
25 There are lots of planting opportunities left for the season : I would like to try a little herbary , for example , and go for a bigger emphasis on autumn colour .
26 The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter .
27 ‘ I am capable of cooking for myself , ’ he assured her stiffly , and she knew she would have to do a little begging to keep him from another burst of anger .
28 Not that she would have allowed a little thing like lack of transport to get in her way — in her current mood she would have hired a private helicopter if necessary to get her to her destination .
29 I think Jimi would have changed a little bit , though , because he was always into change .
30 And yet , I 'm quite sure that as they got nearer and nearer to Bethlehem their feelings would have changed a little bit .
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