Example sentences of "out [prep] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | It started out as a little ripple in the sea then it became an enormous wave it rose into the air then smashed against the breaker , the breaker broke into two . |
| 2 | We had a bachelor party on board , who were out for a little merrymaking : an island marriage ball had wooed them from the desk of the counting-house , and having had a taste of the free air of these parts , and being good fellows well met , a few more days of healthful roving have a gleeful appendix to the gaieties of the wedding . |
| 3 | This ranks as one of the few occasions in the past 20 years when I have forked out for a little bottle . |
| 4 | But Eric came back from a working holiday and Peter was out for a little while , was n't he ? |
| 5 | When you wind your way around the picturesque Lincoln Half-marathon course , look out for a little chap dressed in green who 'll be running backwards . |
| 6 | Now this guy is er out for a little afternoon run on his motorbike . |
| 7 | ‘ And what kind of dybbuk informs their victim that they 're slipping out for a little coffee-break or whatever ? ’ |
| 8 | So while he and Stapleton were led out for a little exercise , the Blue Cross carpenter , Alan Key got to work . |
| 9 | We fell out for a little while but I mean , playing loud but I mean upstairs is fine . |
| 10 | what I 'll probably do is take you out for a little while so you can go up and see Annie and all that , next week , not only a |
| 11 | Dyson broke off in mid-explanation , frowning at a piece of copy-paper he had taken out of a little brown envelope marked ‘ J. Dyson Esqre . ’ |
| 12 | Well Charlton had to improve in the second half , and they did ; they got more men into mid-field , and United began to run out of a little bit of steam . |
| 13 | She was poised now over her garden and could see the whole of it , laid out like a little world , from her great height . |
| 14 | Julie holds the doll up high ‘ to get all the water from inside her ’ and is fascinated to watch it stream out from a little hole in the doll 's big toe . |
| 15 | Harrods probably has one they send out in a little green van . |
| 16 | Theresa are we not are we not missing out with this legislation are we not missing out on a little thing called compassion ? |
| 17 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |