Example sentences of "[prep] a little " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving . |
| 2 | ‘ We passed outside the city walls , and after a little walk , entered ; i green garden door , and made our way to a little plain square building , in which were arranged wooden benches , a pulpit and below the pulpit a plain wooden table and chair . |
| 3 | After a little consideration I decided to take the job on . |
| 4 | You can actually feel that there is a grimy , slimy layer that disappears after a little rubbing leaving a soft slightly oily feel to the skin . |
| 5 | After a little while , Walter said , ‘ Tell me , have you ever thought of marrying again ? ’ |
| 6 | I joined in , and I ran after a little white girl and grabbed her . |
| 7 | After a little while , four jacks came along and they all wanted a bed for the night . |
| 8 | After a little while , cross the Ribeira dos Socorridos and reach the main electricity generating station in the island . |
| 9 | The boys were back in town to finish off their latest album of dinkety-bonk and decided to let their hair down a bit after a little light refreshment in the bar . |
| 10 | Adam did n't immediately realize this , but after a little while he did . |
| 11 | Obviously the curve can face either to the left or the right , and after a little experimentation you will find which sort of curve is easiest for you to create . |
| 12 | Them big butch warders would all be after a little thing like you ! ’ |
| 13 | They , too , had taken to helping in the hospital and Miriam could read on their pale , shocked faces some of the terrible sights they had seen ; after a little while she sent them away to bed . |
| 14 | It is fairly easy for a library user to learn that a subject whose symbol is 623.4 will be found " in the 600s " , and some-where in between 623 and 624 ; and untrained assistants can after a little guidance cope with the shelving and filing problems . |
| 15 | Terry used his limited Arabic to have a long conversation with another visitor who suggested that an American would go home soon with the Irishman and then , after a little while , during which our governments were expected to ‘ make the next step ’ , another American with a Briton and so on . |
| 16 | " Alfred Osbom Tace , " Stephen corrected him , and said after a little hesitation , " He was my grandfather . " |
| 17 | These people come in and it was alright and after a little while , it was the old old story . |
| 18 | After a little while I went on to the drum with Mr Stevens ’ brother , Sid ; and then I got a full man 's money , one and eightpence , a lot o' money to take home then . |
| 19 | The panel came away after a little while ; he put it on the floor in front of him , and wriggled through on his elbows and knees into the darkness beyond . |
| 20 | Also , as he discovers after a little experiment , the windows of the shops here are constructed so that you do n't have to keep looking sideways to see yourself in them . |
| 21 | I struck a few matches and searched round , and after a little while found the small brass end . |
| 22 | He obviously hoped , and after a little while would presumably have believed , that the person to whom it was directed was another homosexual . |
| 23 | After a little while Clare said : |
| 24 | After a little while a man with a pleasant Cornish brogue answered : ‘ Morley Hooper . ’ |
| 25 | After a little while , Wycliffe straightened up and looked at Bourne . |
| 26 | Quiss had found himself there first , and after a little while , when he realised that there was no night and day , just the one flat , monotone light always there beyond the windows , he had started to keep a tally of the number of times he slept . |
| 27 | After a little manipulation , the buckle slips round the handle , I give a tug , and the job is done . |
| 28 | Merrill kept her lips tightly closed , set hard against the turbulent need that whirled inside her , and after a little while Luke drew back . |
| 29 | After a little while they got back to me and says right one 's finally broken down , the seventeen year old , it took them an hour and an half , we 've broke him down he 's admitted he 's done it . |
| 30 | After a little while , Oliver was so cold that he could n't hold on to the banisters any more . |