Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT is true that John Fullard of Hartlepool only appears here when he has had some little difficulty with the Post Office . |
| 2 | He has got that little bit of alertness and determination that the likes of Rideout , Cottee and Johnston have all been lacking . |
| 3 | I want to use that little bit of gold as well to just sort of |
| 4 | The judge was looking at his papers , and said , still looking down , ‘ I believe you want to adopt this little girl . |
| 5 | When the big fish needs to eat other little fish , it signals it is switching back into normal hunting mode by jerking its jaw in a particular way . |
| 6 | Has n't he ever let slip any little hint about who it might have been ? ’ |
| 7 | And she 'd got two little rings of carrots left on her plate . |
| 8 | No , I 'm sure that they 'd got two little rooms on the ground floor and they were choc-a-block you could hardly get in ! |
| 9 | But she 'd got this little bit of oh I do n't know , a little bit of coarseness about her . |
| 10 | Getting its feet into the black binliner is difficult but I manage by laying it down on its stomach and pretending to play this little piggy with its toes till it goes into its silly reverse-crawl routine . |
| 11 | What harm could it do to play this little game another few minutes ? |
| 12 | I think if he 'd driven poor little Makepeace to a nervous breakdown , his reaction would simply have been ‘ so that 's how far one has to go , to have that effect . ’ ’ |
| 13 | them and they came had this little pancakes were dishes of er there was a dish of the sauce that |
| 14 | I 'd changed some little thing — a line-up or stance , ca n't even remember fully — but Nick was over the moon . |
| 15 | And you find you see you 've got that little thing to put your clutch foot on as well . |
| 16 | Yeah I 've got got got this little book in here . |
| 17 | Would you like to hear that little bit again see if you can recall it . |
| 18 | Actually , it 's a valid point and one we thought about long and hard before deciding to give Stiff Little Fingers another go . |
| 19 | We 're not going to let that little bitch — |
| 20 | " They seem to have fancy little engines driving them , do n't they ? |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm going to take this little gang to get some drinks . ’ |
| 22 | It surely is n't too much to ask — not if it 's going to make two little girls happy and contented ? ’ |
| 23 | Well I 'm going to squash this little doggy in a minute if he 's not careful ! |
| 24 | So what do you want to do take that little dress or not ? |
| 25 | Men are all little boys at heart , when all 's said and done , and it 's not only women that like to have these little playthings about to make a break in the daily round . |
| 26 | It 's the I not , I mean he should have grouted that little bit and he should n't have put |
| 27 | Lutton , reasonably happy with his performance in last weekend 's Irish trials in Dublin , accepts he may have to wait that little bit longer to gain Irish recognition . |
| 28 | You could have said this little piggy went to market ! |
| 29 | Normally the thought would have made timid little Miss Fogerty quail . |
| 30 | We must try to imagine these little worlds , with no public libraries or mobile vans , no bookshops or post offices , no magazines and even an old newspaper a rare event . |