Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is not some countries , ’ retorted my mother , perhaps wondering again whether the money she had spent so that I might learn French and a little grace had been utterly wasted , for I had learned only superstition and discontent . |
| 2 | ‘ Would you show me a little bit of this and a little bit of that ? |
| 3 | It 's no use doing a little bit of this and a little bit of that and getting absolutely nowhere , because you 'll get the two finger job . |
| 4 | This and a little piece of elastoplast denied the most outrageous element of the visit to Babylon . |
| 5 | So those are the kind of odd little things that help to make our job interesting and a little bit more exciting . |
| 6 | She was about forty years old and a little fat . |
| 7 | Life away from home , probably for the first time , can be both exciting and a little unnerving at times . |
| 8 | Prepare the ground with leaf-mould and a little bonemeal , and mulch with leaf-mould during a wet spell each summer . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yet it was not until 1612 that the little selection entitled Parthenia got into print . |
| 11 | Put the sugar , mint and a little soda into a tall tumbler . |
| 12 | The little light filled the number sixty-six and the little bell went ping . |
| 13 | But that 's impossible cos the little kid that they bullied did n't even look like Trucky . |
| 14 | I think this is rightly so , but there is an advantage to knowing to being slightly more explicit about how you 're doing it , and I think that if a lot of the evaluation that already went on in schools became a little bit more explicit and a little bit more open , it would be much easier for people outside the schools to realize the extent at which schools were themselves already engaging in evaluation . |
| 15 | Three young women sat around the edges of the room ; they looked bored and a little cold in their scanty bodices . |
| 16 | I had cut my hand on the gun : it was n't bleeding much but the little finger was bent sideways and I could n't move it . |
| 17 | But perhaps she was already as hardened as the little trollop in his own house . |
| 18 | She hung on his every word at dinner , and after coffee , when la Principessa excused herself and retired and the little group adjourned to the sitting-room for liquers and brandy , Sofia dropped to a cushion at his feet and gazed worshipfully into his face . |
| 19 | But as we said earlier that some of us who have been in the truth for a long time we were like that years ago , but somewhere along the line we 've become drowsy and a little sort of halfhearted and maybe dozing a little bit as we go down that sort of motorway er of spirituality and that , that the longer you go it can become more difficult because other things come along do n't they ? |
| 20 | ‘ It 's incredible that a little league like ours has won a victory at the highest level in the world , ’ says Kip . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Barely eighteen , wide-eyed and a little awe-struck by the Court ; receptive and responsive . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Yes but a similar to that but a little bit darker . |
| 25 | She was still mad at Lucy for something , and Lucy was sure that a little time and concentration would tell her what … but for the moment , somehow , the knowledge was just out of reach . |
| 26 | Surely you can see that the very serious element in it puts the straightforward demonstration ‘ Maggie Maggie Maggie Out Out Out' ’ protest song , in its place and makes it seem trite and a little bit cosy ? ’ |
| 27 | You have got to show you are at least as good and a little bit extra to cover your back . ’ |
| 28 | The pianist was sensitive enough , even if he brought no great sense of individual character to the music as yet , and the orchestra competent but a little routine , and not well-enough focused rhythmically . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But she said as it 's so terrible when a little boy her . |