Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she has n't heard about the little delay in the proceedings , caused by the contretemps with ben Issachar , and the stint in the tree . |
| 2 | She had heard about the little boy Grégoire — Jean-Paul 's son , so people said . |
| 3 | Charles 's personal copy of the psalter ( a manuscript designed for daily devotions ) also had ivory covers , showing the prophet Nathan 's rebuke of David for his liaison with Bathsheba ( Ps 51 , Vulg 50 ) and the protection of David 's soul ( Ps 57 , Vulg 56 ) depicted as a little child on the lap of a kindly angel . |
| 4 | Staying would also be impossible in the long run but that young man would let me stay for a little while — until the restaurant closed , anyway . |
| 5 | IF Eugene Kertsman asks you to go for a little jog to keep fit — watch out ! |
| 6 | When I found out what was going on I persuaded the colonel to go for a little holiday — and then , ’ he continued angrily when Hilary snorted derisively again , ‘ when I did meet you , I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 7 | I 'll have to go for a little walk . |
| 8 | ‘ You mean for a little holiday ? ’ |
| 9 | It 's , no it had broken off a little bit , yeah . |
| 10 | I know it will hurt for a little while , but I 'll get better , so why worry ? |
| 11 | Last time I went up she asked for a little bell , so she could ring for me . |
| 12 | And although I am now tired , very cold and extremely hungry — with a headache into the bargain ! — I am compelled to continue for a little while longer . |
| 13 | So Mr is actually going to er talk about that but I just wanted to go through a little sort of resolution , I mean if , if you looked at it , if you looked at number one , it says express this opposition to further expansion and then it goes on and lists Stansted and Luton , but this expansion goes now I mean Stansted is expanding erm daily . |
| 14 | Neither should the budget be treated as the little tin god that stifles all thought , initiative and development . |
| 15 | " Yes , I have plans , " Sara admitted after a little hesitation , but she did not elaborate on them . |
| 16 | He looks through the little hammock in front of him . |
| 17 | Last Monday night , in a mood of deep depression , I was sitting by an open window , praying for a little peace and happiness in my dark life . |
| 18 | He put out his hands and lifted off the little straw boater and laid it down . |
| 19 | In a famous Victorian poem , the fly was depicted as a little man with ‘ rainbows on his wings , a black and brown gown laced around his waist ’ . |
| 20 | If the adoption goes ahead , it will be a fairy tale ending for the little girl whose winning smile and sunny personality stole the heart of a hardbitten war reporter . |
| 21 | so and they then erm I have got some friends I used to know as the little school but they 've left now . |
| 22 | They do n't want to be praised and stroked for every little thing , but they do want their work to be noticed and acknowledged every so often — and not just when they screwed something up or forgot it . |
| 23 | To enter the Kingdom of Heaven one has to come as a little child , with an attitude of trust , and prepared to be teachable and flexible ( Matt. |
| 24 | Still stroking my son 's forehead with my left hand , I reach out into the darkness with my right and fumble for the little clock on his bedside table . |
| 25 | The pitiable Mr Pygling , who jerked through the little town with a stick — it turned out he had Parkinson 's disease — doffed his check cap to Jane and even held the door open for her when they ran into each other at a shop until she opened the house to the public ( having restored it sufficiently ) on Sundays . |
| 26 | She might have guessed that as soon as she tried for a little peace and quiet the whole place would be inundated with callers . |
| 27 | and he said , he said that 's just the man I want for a little job |
| 28 | it only needs for a little bit of attention on a wire or something |
| 29 | Of course , where the science fiction writers really go to town is on what happens if you do fall in a black hole , A common suggestion is that if the black hole is rotating , you can fall through a little hole in space-time and out into another region of the universe . |
| 30 | In the late afternoon , as he is walking past the Little Palace ( ***Bramante 1512 , chapel by Michelangelo , later additions by Bernini , Wren , Pugin , and van der Rohe ) , whistles begin to shrill , and policemen appear from nowhere to stop the traffic and hold back pedestrians from crossing the road . |