Example sentences of "them a little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Arabs in a tent gave them a little water and then the exhausted men finally stumbled into an outpost of the King 's Dragoon Guards . |
| 2 | It is possible to live with wild animals , if we give them a little space . |
| 3 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 4 | It may take them a little while , but it is important that you contact them to make a housing application and let them know of your needs . |
| 5 | ‘ I think it will take them a little while to catch up again . |
| 6 | It took them a little while to pluck up courage to go along and when they did , they chose the Norfolk Gliding Club at Longstratton near Norwich . |
| 7 | Sometimes they would read our palms , finishing by giving them a little scratch that signified they were available — one scratch twenty douros , two scratches fifty douros and so on up the scale from an ‘ in and out ’ in the toilets or a ‘ short time ’ in a back room to a whole night in the brothel , with champagne and bath . |
| 8 | Twelve tracks of lashing , fiery , passionate pop , each of them a little nugget of punky guitaring , robust melody and shrouded , sensitive lyrics . |
| 9 | If you grow some of the more vulnerable shrubs in an area where they are on the borderline of hardness , give them a little winter protection . |
| 10 | I 've tried to make them a little bit longer . |
| 11 | And matey done them a little bit longer . |
| 12 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 13 | odd fifty P here , and pound here and I always try to give them a little bit . |
| 14 | so that gives them a little bit of introduction for each one |
| 15 | The great thing about the game is that you 're teaching them a little bit of culture |
| 16 | We give them a little trinket box or a ring holder , it 's traditional , ’ she explains , in a charmingly deliberate Scots Italian voice . |
| 17 | Sometimes we give them a little canvas pack , or they will fasten on to their keeper 's neck or earlobe , armpit or face . |
| 18 | Oh well I 'll keep the insurance company er I w er we will send them a little note in that case , saying look , you know , this is the case , it appears to be an innocent lesion she 's just been finely checked over on the eighth of October , do you feel you can now proceed ? |