Example sentences of "[prep] a little " in BNC.
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| 31 | After a little while he and his magnates added titles 63 [ for 66 ? ] to 78 . |
| 32 | " Yes , I have plans , " Sara admitted after a little hesitation , but she did not elaborate on them . |
| 33 | He used to come into the shop after a little while and he 'd go back in the kitchen again and he 'd come back again later on . |
| 34 | After a little consideration he decided to talk to Phil Jordan . |
| 35 | after a little while . |
| 36 | I mean you must , if you 're looking after a little girl , you must in the end , unless you 've low and detest children , or unless you 're out purely and simply for the money , I mean how can you |
| 37 | I , you know I do n't mind , I enjoy handicraft but I find I 'm out Monday playing darts , I 'm out Tuesday doing handicraft and I look after a little boy who 's got Cerebral Palsy four mornings a week and comes three in the afternoon and it 's quite a lot . |
| 38 | You would n't call it the best buildup you ever seen and after a little bit of scrappy play which Pisa failed to get the ball away , it fell inviting on the edge of the area , and he struck it with all the confidence and aplomb a a player who 's been planting 'em in the back of the net all season . |
| 39 | You only , I , after a little while I began to get bored . |
| 40 | All for the privilege of a little pussybumping ! |
| 41 | In the novel itself we meet the Russian people , the folk , only once , and then as inflictors of suffering , in Raskolnikov 's half-dream ( which is also half-memory ) of a little mare being tortured and finally clubbed to death by drunken peasants . |
| 42 | But one day at the club when he trotted out this phrase during some heated discussion in the midst of a little group of members ( all of them persons of some consequence ) , Nicholas Stavrogin who was standing to one side alone and unnoticed , suddenly went up to Mr Gaganov and , taking him unexpectedly and firmly with two fingers by the nose , managed to drag him two or three steps across the room . |
| 43 | Direct from the Chichester Festival Theatre , Ian Judge 's elegant production of A Little Night Music comes into the Piccadilly Theatre in preview from 6 Oct , opening on 11 Oct . |
| 44 | One of them , drawn from metropolitan Dublin , laced the scandal with a smile and simply blamed the Svengalian influence of Dr Kavanagh ; the other , more parochial , gives the impression of a little country funeral spinning quietly but inexorably out of control . |
| 45 | He dismissed conducting as a phoney profession , responsible for turning players into mindless dependents , powerless without the hypnotic beat of a little white stick in front of them . |
| 46 | In 1961 , however , Macmillan 's Conservative Government was forced to confront the underlying weaknesses of British economic performance , and , as the Cabinet debated various strategies , the Prime Minister noted the emergence of ‘ a rather interesting and quite deep divergence of view between Ministers , really corresponding to whether they had old Whig , Liberal , laissez-faire traditions , or Tory opinions , paternalists and not afraid of a little dirigism . |
| 47 | Hafpor said he knew of a little hotel , and would we like to go there ? |
| 48 | They 're pictures of a little girl . |
| 49 | He rejected the idea of a Little End Room museum , not least because ‘ a museum is preciously like a mausoleum ’ . |
| 50 | Nevertheless , the film deploys sounds and images with intense effect as it explores the inner experience of a little girl closed off from the world , for whom her family is a cage tightened around her and preventing her from communicating with the world . |
| 51 | All salami are raw meat , usually pork but sometimes with the addition of a little beef . |
| 52 | To send her two young sons , Mathieu and Laurent , to sleep , Cécile de Brunhoff told them the story of a little elephant who left the forest to discover the town and learn the ways of men , before returning to his own idyllic land of the elephants to be crowned king . |
| 53 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 54 | I was thinking of a little black cat gazing up at me with dim eyes ; Rozanov of I know not what — possibly Ulrike Meinhof . |
| 55 | Perhaps under this banner Mr Mitterrand will , before he leaves the stage , contrive to unite his children — and , with the help of a little tinkering with the voting system and the constitution , defy the augury of satirical novelists and opinion pollsters alike . |
| 56 | I certainly share Mr Walden 's hopes that David Mellor , whose new Cabinet post includes responsibility for broadcasting , will not allow his judgment to be swayed by those who , no doubt feeling the strain of the election campaign , now relish the prospect of a little BBC-bashing to relieve their feelings in the run-up to the renewal of the Corporation 's Charter . |
| 57 | His straw boater was new and his plus-fours neat , but there was something of the air of a little boy about him . |
| 58 | The granule is dissolved in forty , thirty , twenty , fifteen or eight tablespoons of water with the addition of a little alcohol to preserve it ; 10% is a good guide for solutions designed to last up to two months . |
| 59 | On the opposite side of the piazza from the church , beyond the row of elegant short pillars and the less fetching white domes erected to stop the Milanese from parking on the pavements , is Palazzo Trivulzio , a sixteenth-century building that has been remodelled and is in need of a little loving care . |
| 60 | An expert pharmacologist may not be subject to the authority of the government in matters of the safety of drugs , an inhabitant of a little village by a river may not be subject to its authority in matters of navigation and conservation of the river by the banks of which he has spent all his life . |