Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [adj] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were no clerics nor foreigners amongst them and it was obvious that many of those going in to view the film viewed them as a sad little group . |
| 2 | We imagined ourselves in a cosy little country practice , jogging along comfortably and enjoying our work . |
| 3 | THE Rev. Martin Smyth , MP , has been telling me of a neat little trick pulled by local people to have houses built at Innes Place on the Donegall Road . |
| 4 | You sound to me like a tired little rascal |
| 5 | Here 's me taking you for a prancing little parson when all the while the cloth is a covering for a frustrated sex maniac . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ While I was about it , I put a fiver for you on a nice little filly called General Motors . ’ |
| 7 | He poured it into the glasses and handed her one with a mocking little bow that nearly made Hilary throw the liquid all over him . |
| 8 | Faye Hamilton and her brother both thought of her as a sweet little thing who needed protection , did they ? |
| 9 | I ask him if I could describe him as a lucky little wanker who became very rich and famous through doing very little apart from being his baffled , fitful , daft self . |
| 10 | I see him as a servile little bugger ! |
| 11 | He reminded her of a naughty little boy standing with his trousers around his ankles , and his willy hanging like a worm between his legs . |
| 12 | She looked at him with a derisive little smile — the sort of smile a lamb might bestow on a wolf promising that being eaten alive wo n't hurt . |
| 13 | Holding her breath , she waited while Luke Calder walked round and climbed behind the wheel , starting the engine before glancing sideways at her with a mocking little smile . |
| 14 | And the small seed of anger against him knotted itself inside her into a hard little core of resentment . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's turned her into a proper little snob ! ’ |
| 16 | She ushered him into a stuffy little room lit by bright spotlights . |
| 17 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 18 | The old man had a house built for him in a pretty little Warwickshire village a few miles from Stratford , with the Avon flowing through the garden . |
| 19 | He had undermined all her carefully built-up controls , got under her skin in the most insidious way possible , and turned her from a cool little lady into a screaming fishwife . |
| 20 | ‘ Most of them would have treated it as a nice little Christmas story about this powerful but sad woman with an unhappy family Now it 's all been turned into major crisis . ’ |
| 21 | He 'd probably achieved it on a pleasant little trip to the Bahamas . |
| 22 | She 's nothing but a mercenary little gold-digger , and I will not allow her to be a mother to my sister ! ’ |
| 23 | You ran away from us like a silly little schoolboy , without saying where you were going . |