Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 2 | Faith had flown the little aircraft across the U.S. before , which means the Tri-Pacer has flown ( with some help over the Atlantic and Pacific ) around the world . |
| 3 | GenTech had developed the little bastards . |
| 4 | The car which had caught the little boy 's eye was a black 6-series BMW saloon — a car which possessed far more style and expensive panache than those which were normally seen around . |
| 5 | Standing there , surveying the hall , so pleasant now ( though she knew that really she ought to get carpet foam and do over the carpet which after all had been folded up in the dust of the skip ) , she saw that Philip had mended the little cupboard under the stairs that the policeman had kicked in . |
| 6 | He had torn the little gold cross from around her neck , during love , with such force she was left with a welt which never ever seemed to vanish . |
| 7 | To this end the CPL has won a little victory in its efforts to ensure that the cat is not put out with the milk bottles . |
| 8 | Our earlier quoted settings , which perhaps could be nudged a little sacrificing fuel burn and noise comfort , produced around 145 knots true air speed at low level , and at height around 155 . |
| 9 | Had n't she earned a little peace and quiet ? |
| 10 | This luxury hotel is located a little way out of town , past Reid 's , on the road to Cãmara de Lobos . |
| 11 | A muzzled ferret has on a number of occasions evicted a little owl . |
| 12 | The powder 's just gone it 's dissolved a little bit but it 's not really doing much on its own . |
| 13 | Er but er I 've managed to fiddle it with the suggested preachers for the November series , which I have come a little bit unstuck about . |
| 14 | I , myself , am considered a little eccentric . |
| 15 | Er but erm the So the railway line erm still carried a little bit of er of freight traffic , but erm it was n't quite abandoned , but even some of the er station buildings were removed erm to er to . |
| 16 | Now , having regained a little strength of her own , she seemed cruelly intent on conquering him . |
| 17 | I have n't met the little brat yet , but she 'll know about it when I do . |
| 18 | You have met the little beast for only half an hour and her father has known her all her life ! ’ |
| 19 | I 've seen the little bottles . |
| 20 | He entered the maze of streets and alleyways below Piazza Amedeo , looking for the place where he had seen the little beggar girl with the bandaged leg . |
| 21 | ‘ When we asked how they knew we were coming , they would solemnly say that they had seen the Little People lighting candles in all the windows . |
| 22 | She had seen the little plastic bowls of grey water at the back of the hot-dog stall in which the woman rinsed her horrible cloth ; she knew what the lavatories in the park were like . |
| 23 | Every , everyone , everyone has seen the little lamb but never seen her bear . |
| 24 | If he had not drawn her attention to it she would never have noticed the little glass cubicle , tucked away high up under the roof in one corner of the arcade . |
| 25 | Well they might be tailored a little bit according to the level , but basically it 's a similar lecture . |
| 26 | I 've done a little work on eidesis myself . |
| 27 | I 'd read the various bits and pieces a couple of times now , looking for something deep and mysterious in it all but not finding anything ; I 'd even done a little research of my own , and discovered through mum that dad had some more of Rory 's papers in his study ; she 'd promised she 'd try and look them out for me . |
| 28 | He has done a little bit of manipulation here and there but overall it will not boost the economy . |
| 29 | They have done a little bit of redecorating , such as in the hallway where they put up a pretty floral paper with a wide matching border at dado level , and hung an original time recorder clock , made in Leeds and bought from an antique shop in Leigh-on-Sea . |
| 30 | you know maybe I am the sort of person they 're looking for who 's already done a little bit of surveying erm to join as a dogsbody and then over the two years or four years however long it does take erm you know slowly presumably you just get given more responsibilities . |