Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 2 | so it 's all hot on the plate and served straight away you know , luckily erm I managed it but I got in a little bit of a flap I will admit it whereas Shirl 's now got used to that I mean I when we first came we both used to do our own help each other out I used to help out but erm |
| 3 | I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger . |
| 4 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
| 5 | I stopped in a little restaurant and ordered a hot dog by pointing at a picture of one that hung over the greasy counter . |
| 6 | I says to the little kid , when nanny and mums do n't take , well I do n't anyway . |
| 7 | BELVILLE : What can I do with the little baggage , Mrs. Jervis ? |
| 8 | Rachel and I wait at the little barrier in the station terminus , and again I think what an ordinary pair of holidaymakers we must look — too tatty to be honeymooners , but the same kind of contentment together . |
| 9 | I 'm in bed reading , so I look at the little security system we have , look at the screen — I do n't know this chap , he 's obviously drunk , and obviously ex-public school . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I live quietly now , but every year Fritz and I meet in a little town outside Ruritania . |
| 12 | ‘ I climbed into the little turret down from the Bird . |
| 13 | And their of first office as I recall as a little boy , was on the q quay as we used to say in Porthmadog . |
| 14 | Just then I glanced through the little bedroom window and saw all the women and kids still hanging about outside . |
| 15 | ‘ I watched for every little sign of a rift between you both . |
| 16 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 17 | I looked at the little boy , lying there , and caught a glimpse of the father peeping from the corridor . |
| 18 | I looked at the little priest and grinned at Benjamin . |
| 19 | Lt Tim Kelly , 45 , a specialist in mobile air operations , said : ‘ I looked for a little girl who had been injured by shrapnel so I could have her winched aboard . |
| 20 | I looked into the little mirror for just a moment . |
| 21 | By the time I turn into the little lane where I live it has become so intense that I usually slow down . |
| 22 | That evening , instead of having dinner at the house , Fritz and I went to the little hotel in the town of Zenda where I had stayed before . |
| 23 | I went to the little room in the guest house in Lillie road , especially booked for me . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Scorning more than a small peppermint humbug , I went into the little church of St. Nicholas . |
| 27 | So I went like a little lamb following a mother sheep , back to the same room . |
| 28 | I crossed over the little pack horse bridge . |
| 29 | I walked off the ship , and I slept in a little house near the sea . |
| 30 | After the girls had gone I sat for a little time , thinking . |