Example sentences of "[pron] [art] little [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Next thing you 'll be telling me the little cow 's summoned up the ‘ forces of Evil ’ .
2 Bring me the little book , that might have it as well .
3 Well when that Joe and Annie got married Joe gave me the little purse with a threepenny bit in .
4 If ones came as in little wee pi pickups we called them the little lorry things you would sort of keep your eye very much because you did n't know they were looking for scrap and if you told them you had nothing they might go away with your iron gates or something .
5 Can I a little bit of orange ?
6 So am I a little bit .
7 We have allowed ourselves a little licence with the sauce , ’ Angelina explained .
8 ‘ Maybe the party will be able to get some money out of it and we will be able to prostitute ourselves a little bit more .
9 We 've amused ourselves a little bit by putting William 's initials on there and the arms of his wife who was called Joan .
10 We blitzed ourselves a little bit I think you know , back pass we talked about , no back passes , ball gambles and everything , in he goes , two free headers basically .
11 Mr Ivory 's only contact with Chatchai since then has been a phone call , in which the little boy told him : ‘ We go to Bangkok and never come back . ’
12 To which the little girl said : ‘ OK I 'll take it , but leave it on the vine .
13 She had been taken by surprise by the suddenness with which the little helicopter had unstuck itself from the landing pad , and the unnerving rapidity of their ascent .
14 Not far ahead in the tented camp which the little party of soldiers was approaching , the Regimental Pipe Band was playing .
15 The Conti family house still survives at the top of the ridge on which the little hill town is built : it has extensive views across to Segni and also to Anagni .
16 Sometimes he even managed to keep for himself the little piece of cotton-wool that she soaked in perfume so that he could rub the henna stains from her skin .
17 The main entry road was well sealed off with road blocks and white-helmeted military cops behind which a little bit of American Mid-West flourished .
18 Another story — the charming Silford Hall tells of a happy visit which a little boy once paid to a country mansion , and how the kind housekeeper showed him round the picture gallery , and gave him a lovely dinner in the servants ' hall ; Crabbe had himself been that humble little boy .
19 The whole idea behind the I D S sounds perhaps at first as if its a little bit like an old missionary organization which has been set up to help the natives .
20 Yeah its a little conifer we found in er
21 He moved away from the mirror , seated himself a little way from the top of the main staircase and wrapped the tails of the shirt around his legs .
22 Peter : What he 's done today is buy himself a little time , his troubles are n't over , Mrs Thatcher still casts her shadow over this conference he still has problems inside and outside the cabinet but he has bought some time .
23 He allowed himself a little smile , which vanished from his face when he felt the car slowing , and glimpsed through the misted window the place the facilitator had brought him to .
24 Nicolo Sabatini permitted himself a little smile .
25 He 's a deep forward square leg and there 's Lawrence about thirty yards away from him a little finer , here 's Tufnell the he cuts it away on the off side , that 's a fine and wide give himself a little bit of room ease that away through extra cover , steward in front of the grandstand , four more , which is the way he plays , sixteen not out .
26 She begrudges you every little bit of that .
27 And I said oh Miss wants to know was she a little bugger
28 I said or was she a little sweetie .
29 It 's called time , it gives you a little space at the top so you can fill in what you feel to be your role , and if you can fill below , all the tasks in respective order that you do in a typical day .
30 ‘ But I want to give you a little help with your wicket keeping .
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