Example sentences of "went [prep] a little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marion and her son had an agreeable high tea of poached eggs on toast , tea and cakes , went for a little walk along Old Compton Street and bought some gorgonzola and a pound of cherries before returning to the theatre for the evening show ; he was allowed to watch the first act from the wings before making his way back to Putney on his own . |
| 2 | Anyway , it was a lon , there 's a little restaurant in the road , and it was back of sort of erm Mar , if you wal , you crossed over and if you went through a little slip where it came , you came into this little arcade of shops where o , about in the road next to er |
| 3 | So I went like a little lamb following a mother sheep , back to the same room . |
| 4 | My English travelling companion was game to try the dulse seaweed , which is a speciality in Ballycastle , so I went into a little shop on the seafront . |
| 5 | And while I was waiting for them I I went into a little shop and For some cigarettes , and er me brother y Oh younger brother , we 'd started him up er f he was a plumber . |
| 6 | Just it was a beautiful day , so I said why not stay for an hour , so we got out , out , in , so we , as it is , , you know we just went round a little bit , and it 's very tidy and nice , biscuits . |
| 7 | Oh they w they went to a little cottage in Llaneilian . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I saved two hundred dollars and when summer came , I left the theatre and went to a little village by the sea on Long Island . |
| 9 | The monster that said ‘ Hee-haw ! ’ carried me on its back and we went to a little river . |
| 10 | Of course we went to a little market and naturally we bought a couple of plaited strings of garlic which will go mouldy before we 've finished them . |
| 11 | As they could not afford haute couture they went to a little shop opposite their theatre which was called Mama 's and the owner allowed them to put money aside weekly to buy the dresses they wanted . |
| 12 | We went on a little steam train as well . |
| 13 | . And er when they got er they went on a little whisky , well there were n't much about threepence , do you see ? |