Example sentences of "and [adj] [conj] [art] little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hung on his every word at dinner , and after coffee , when la Principessa excused herself and retired and the little group adjourned to the sitting-room for liquers and brandy , Sofia dropped to a cushion at his feet and gazed worshipfully into his face . |
| 2 | Finally he lowered the papers on to the desk and whistled through his teeth in astonishment , and more than a little dismay . |
| 3 | Joanne and the other members of the team of teachers working with the intake year embarked on the new curriculum with a good deal of enthusiasm and more than a little apprehension . |
| 4 | One or two of the instructions are ambiguous , some of the parts do not fit together as they are supposed to and more than a little initiative is required to complete the project . |
| 5 | It was uncanny and more than a little unnerving to watch : the perfect hunter at work . |
| 6 | After two months of solid work and more than a little imagination , John and Jenny have created a marvellous centrepiece for their home . |
| 7 | THERE IS a paranoiac frisson , and more than a little insight , to be had from the thought that we humans are not really in control of our own fates , and that someone or something is using us . |
| 8 | Probably because of the heat , Bishop Malduin 's face had assumed a motley of different colours , like a majuscule in a saint 's gospel-book : blue and pink and yellow and red and a little white , here and there . |
| 9 | Out we went where the swell of the Atlantic drive was strong and fierce and the little steamer tossed about like a cork . |
| 10 | There are four children of the marriage which took place on 17 March 1990 , three girls born in 1984 , 1986 and 1988 and a little boy born in July 1990 . |