Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [art] little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura was doubtful whether the little girl ought to be allowed to go out like that alone with an old man , and not a very scrupulous one at that , for a whole afternoon . |
| 2 | But that 's impossible cos the little kid that they bullied did n't even look like Trucky . |
| 3 | But perhaps she was already as hardened as the little trollop in his own house . |
| 4 | The holy , rather , formed the permanent context of life , always and everywhere present , animating a community larger than the little group gathered around the altar , ready at any moment to manifest blessing or power , at special moments or special places . |
| 5 | The animals barked themselves hoarse as the little party tramped past and they were amused to see men watching them , one from behind a ruined byre , another behind a thick tree-trunk . |
| 6 | I was n't quite sure whether the little girl who volunteered the world ‘ slim ’ was being personal or not , but at least that led into a discussion on diet . |
| 7 | But she said as it 's so terrible when a little boy her . |
| 8 | But just when I was feeling at home in the loin-cloth and boot polish , and when I 'd learned my lines before anyone else and was getting as competent as a little orangutan on the scaffolding , I saw that our conflicts had n't ended . |
| 9 | Hurrying away on her next mission , Nicandra felt quietly elated because the little act of kindness in donating her scone had been accepted with so much pleasure and a thoughtful reservation for breakfast . |
| 10 | My open support of the Irish struggle , reading pro-Sinn Fein poems at school assembly when it was my turn to choose a reading two weeks after the Birmingham pub bombing caused more than a little outrage and several stern pep talks , culminating in threatened expulsion from the headmistress . |
| 11 | Numbers of influential visitors to Germany , mostly connected with commerce , the aristocracy , or both , came back with more than a little sympathy for what Hitler was achieving . |
| 12 | Finally he lowered the papers on to the desk and whistled through his teeth in astonishment , and more than a little dismay . |
| 13 | It contains no spices ; but sip with care , for at the bottom of every cup lurks more than a little sediment . |
| 14 | She looked at him bleakly , feeling more than a little hurt . |
| 15 | After leaving the Navy he also wrote much fiction , and as a novelist in the early post-war years his first published work , The Felthams ( 1950 ) , was thought highly of and his bestseller , The Rock ( 1957 ) , served to establish him as a writer of more than a little promise . |
| 16 | It was a day or two before I realized that his behaviour was becoming more than a little frenetic , to say the least . |
| 17 | Feeling more than a little self conscious now that the adrenalin had ebbed away , I addressed the single , lit eye : ‘ OK , love ? ’ |
| 18 | Joanne and the other members of the team of teachers working with the intake year embarked on the new curriculum with a good deal of enthusiasm and more than a little apprehension . |
| 19 | Love : the word would be utterly meaningless in this context ; no more than a little blast of sound . |
| 20 | One or two of the instructions are ambiguous , some of the parts do not fit together as they are supposed to and more than a little initiative is required to complete the project . |
| 21 | Takes more than a little snow ( like four feet of it in the suburbs ) to slow down the charging bull of Oracle Corp , and the company yesterday said that ‘ Through Rain , Sleet or the Coldest Arctic Snow in Century , the show will go on for Oracle 's Product Announcement of Cooperative Development Environment in New York City today ! ’ adding that ‘ If you are stuck on the sunny west coast attending UniForum , please join us for the delayed CDE announcement and demonstration . ’ |
| 22 | As for the pieds noirs , his attitude was tinged with more than a little contempt : he did not think that " southern types " like them could threaten his regime . |
| 23 | THERE IS a paranoiac frisson , and more than a little insight , to be had from the thought that we humans are not really in control of our own fates , and that someone or something is using us . |
| 24 | It was uncanny and more than a little unnerving to watch : the perfect hunter at work . |
| 25 | In teacher-training colleges lecturers have new theories of history that do away with the learning of ‘ facts ’ in favour of imaginative identification with more than a little colouring from the modern stereotypes that possess their own imagination . |
| 26 | Since you 're more than a little accident prone at this time , exercise caution and be careful not to lead your owner into trouble . |
| 27 | After two months of solid work and more than a little imagination , John and Jenny have created a marvellous centrepiece for their home . |
| 28 | If you have had more than a little alcohol you would probably become so relaxed that you fell asleep and nothing the therapist was saying would register at all . |
| 29 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |
| 30 | Last winter round here there was nothing more alarming than a little cat-ice in the margins , gone by midday , and it 's now at the stage where I think advice on constructing insulating entire pool covers may have been overtaken by the global weather pattern . |