Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a little [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a little money from my father 's will , administered by his British solicitors . |
| 2 | If I had a little money in a rich man 's world . |
| 3 | ‘ I had a little difficulty on first arriving , but that is surely only normal . ’ |
| 4 | I had a little chat with an old man today about his flowers . |
| 5 | ‘ I realised that I was in a good position , I had a little bit of work , which fitted in with my family life . |
| 6 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 7 | I had a little pair of white ankle socks and can I find them ? |
| 8 | Anyway in the end he went in and erm the next thing the Inspector came up and er he called me and the Union chap into his car and er he said , We got a mark I said yeah well I had a little scar across me knee . |
| 9 | Luckily I had a little book in my pocket called Anaesthetics For Medical Students . |
| 10 | Besides she had a little money of her own . |
| 11 | When William had gone , she thought of all the things she had planned to do as soon as she had a little time to herself . |
| 12 | Outside their little house she had a little plot of land . |
| 13 | I could just make out that she had a little smile at the corner of her lips . |
| 14 | She had a little smile on her face because she had won that round easily and it gave her a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 15 | Well , not entirely , as she had a little girl of eighteen months old and her husband was missing reported killed in a bombing raid over Germany . |
| 16 | She had a little mole above her pretty upper lip , so I knew it was she . |
| 17 | She had a little laugh about that . |
| 18 | She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else . |
| 19 | I think you had a little bit of a soft spot for Poole did n't you , and you 'd have quite liked to have gone there and a little bit perhaps disappointed when you heard that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox ? |
| 20 | You see , my dear , we had a little difficulty over which should adorn the top of the tree , the star of Bethlehem which is of course the only proper thing as well as being the only thing countenanced by the Rector , or an immensely glittering and unsuitable fairy doll someone was so ill-judged as to give to Helen . |
| 21 | We had a little chat with Unix System Labs president Roel Pieper last week and he did n't exactly rule out the possibility of USL making a takeover move on Santa Cruz Operation Inc ( UX No 396 ) : however , he said , it would n't be a good business value unless both firms were committed to going in the same direction . |
| 22 | Your cousin warned me off again , we had a little set-to in the pub , so I thought I 'd better come and make me mark . ’ |
| 23 | We had a little bit of money , we wanted all these things for the baby , but he could n't afford the money . |
| 24 | Yes yo your hands used to be purple an and the brass work on the dredger cos we had , we had a little bit of brass work they all used to turn green and to clean it , used to turn green . |
| 25 | And we had a little drive to er what was it called Fast Eddy 's . |
| 26 | At the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton in 1988 we had a little fun on the last day , just before the Prime Minister 's speech . |
| 27 | We had a little garden in the front and we used to put er a in in in the in in on the soil and we used to put some crumbs on on a on a plate you know . |
| 28 | Okay you 're absolutely right er we did play that at the beginning of the programme we had a little trouble with our C D what happened there Stuart it went off the air did n't it ? |
| 29 | Tonight we had a little concert from a first-class military band . |
| 30 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |