Example sentences of "she [verb] [verb] a little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Violet has mostly dug up her patch and planted vegetables in it , but she has left a little strip of grass , about three foot long , which she mows with a lawn mower she bought at a jumble sale for two pounds . |
| 2 | She has found a little place in the country . |
| 3 | At a safe distance from Biff she seemed to recover a little courage . |
| 4 | She had always wanted an animal of her own , and so she began to feel a little interest in Dickon . |
| 5 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
| 6 | There she had arranged a little altar , flowers and candles . |
| 7 | Worse still , after she had made a little money from the publication of a pamphlet containing her beastly poems about him , she commissioned a rubber dress from ‘ her designer ’ . |
| 8 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 9 | She had done a little freelance journalism for such magazines as Horse and Hound , The Field and Country Life . |
| 10 | She had found a little beach not far from the lodge , but hard enough to reach that she was mostly by herself . |
| 11 | Already she had put a little distance between them ! |
| 12 | Because I still think this is very much discriminating on the , people like Val for example , I know she 's got a little bit of scale two but I still think the reception is such a big responsibility |
| 13 | She 's got a little girl , Marie has . |
| 14 | And because she 's got a little girl , people think we 're friends or sisters . |
| 15 | I think it 's because she 's got a little pal now with the other |
| 16 | the lady 's had it about ten years but she 's got a little dog as well . |
| 17 | And she pushes a pushchair and she 's got a little lad about ? |
| 18 | Anyway she 's had a little boy and he 's fine , he 's got a cold that 's why he was n't in today . |
| 19 | Yes and she 's had a little boy ! |