Example sentences of "he [verb] a little [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Phillips straight to Hill and that 's a long ball aimed at Ormanroyd Cooper across to cover and you just saw him grimace a little bit again there as he charged in on Ormanroyd .
2 Why , why you know , I 've even heard him speak a little French ? ’
3 ‘ I have seen him play a little bit more to the net than normally , but I would say that he has much more confidence staying back and playing long rallies .
4 ‘ I 've been too busy to take him out all day , and I do like him to have a little outing . ’
5 Was sleeping with him the price you had to pay for having him throw a little business your way ? ’
6 Well he s all he made a little contract out himself , you know that 's what he did , after he he 'd put these new tables in the mill .
7 He made a little bow and rubbed his hands together .
8 He made a little bow , refusing the invitation to invite .
9 He made a little bow .
10 In the ‘ FURNITURE ’ section he made a little hut out of cardboard and used it as a base for his search .
11 In the pavilion he made a little speech to a few reporters .
12 He made a little face .
13 At her sudden acquiescence , he made a little sound of satisfaction deep in his throat and his embrace tightened , becoming almost painful in its intensity , making it difficult for her to breathe .
14 ‘ Enjoy that , did you ? ’ he drawled a little while later , reappearing with a plate piled high with soft sponge and cream and two glasses that overflowed with bubbling champagne .
15 He goes a little bit further down the road .
16 I tried to discourage him , but in the end he became a little bit of a nuisance , you know ?
17 He got a little overtime and he made it go a long way .
18 But He hummed a little tune , cheery as a plague pit , and — pausing only to extract the life from a passing mayfly , and one-ninth of the lives from a cat cowering under the fish stall ( all cats can see into the octarine ) — Death turned on His heel and set off towards the Broken Drum .
19 When he woke up he found a little stain , which he thought must be a map of Ireland , on the sheet .
20 Wherever Defoe passed a house he found a little rill of running water .
21 ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had .
22 Then he found a little card under his pillow .
23 Yeah , he does , he thinks it 's another just that he has a little drink now and then .
24 If it 's gon na plague him and give him trouble let's get it sorted out this year , even if it means that he has a little bit of temporary deafness for a little while , you know ?
25 He has a little bit of a scratchiness in one of his eyes
26 He has a little scullery down there , where he cooks his mad grub .
27 Deprived — fortunately as it turned out , for otherwise he would have had no spare time at all — of the pleasures of the rugby field , he played a little squash and tennis ( developing his ‘ cannonball serve : that 's all you need , see : they never get it back ’ ) and ‘ chatting up ’ .
28 Grayson played soccer for Parklands High School before going on to Preston College where he played a little rugby in 1989 but never thought of taking up the game .
29 But he missed his trick and he came a little bit too far and he knocked me over and I was underneath the front of the van .
30 He saluted a little man in tight trousers and a yachting cap , standing by a boat pulled up on the bank .
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