Example sentences of "[adj] and [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 | Put the sugar , mint and a little soda into a tall tumbler . |
| 10 | The little light filled the number sixty-six and the little bell went ping . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Three young women sat around the edges of the room ; they looked bored and a little cold in their scanty bodices . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Barely eighteen , wide-eyed and a little awe-struck by the Court ; receptive and responsive . |
| 16 | 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 ? ’ |
| 17 | You have got to show you are at least as good and a little bit extra to cover your back . ’ |
| 18 | With the abundance of exotic summer fruits available and a little help from Sweetex , the UK 's best selling non-sugar sweetener , you can serve your guests mouthwatering healthy treats . |
| 19 | When we passed it , on our way to inspect the gravel pits , the big hand was on twelve and the little hand was on four . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've always wanted to be mysterious and a little bit sinister and have girls swoon when they see me . ’ |
| 21 | Well we have production course you have made your appointment to see Mr and Mrs who are existing clients of , you will now conduct the first appointment starting with greeting and appropriate sociability which is the first part of step one , through to producing the C C Q and then further copy pages two and four of the attached C C Q in your booklet , so two and four are er we 've got four and two , the personal details and may be the wrong way round there , so it 's advisable to say you complete the first part of it , page two and then the employment details okay , so you doing a little bit of exploring there so if you like you can be doing all of step one and a little bit of step two , buying in this particular role playing . |
| 22 | She found a used tram ticket to Holborn in one and a little hanky scrumpled up in the bottom of the other . |
| 23 | Pinned to the gate , poster-sized , was a blown-up snapshot of a blonde girl not unlike Lyn herself , a girl with a vulnerable face , tender and a little melancholy , a girl who wore her long fair hair like a cloak . |
| 24 | Probably because of the heat , Bishop Malduin 's face had assumed a motley of different colours , like a majuscule in a saint 's gospel-book : blue and pink and yellow and red and a little white , here and there . |
| 25 | But a lot of our client 's finance sections , do n't see the difference between a big and a little job they see some pigeon holes in their spreadsheet and they want to put something in there . |
| 26 | The exoskeleton slid smoothly open and a little tune — Climb Every Mountain — issued tonelessly from a small loudspeaker somewhere . |
| 27 | Even so , it was painfully slow and the little boy stirred and cried out in pain . |
| 28 | Out we went where the swell of the Atlantic drive was strong and fierce and the little steamer tossed about like a cork . |
| 29 | Colour pieces of the remaining fondant icing ( and using any trimmings ) to make the sailor — fleshy pink , blue and a little white . |
| 30 | All this for an eighteen-year-old who , just over a year before , had been feared — in the context of the time — unmanageable and a little while before that had been sunk down without trace behind the haberdashery counter in Port Talbot 's Co-operative shop . |