Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [art] little [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She writes a little poetry and prose , and indulges her great love of cooking , at which she excels .
2 She stands a little distance away .
3 On the upper deck aft from the wheelhouse she has a little lounge with a sauna .
4 She says every little girl wants to be Alice .
5 The three year old pekinese had been an eighteerth birthday present to Maxine Weblin from her parents ; she says the little dog can never be replaced
6 She seems a little well , odd .
7 ‘ Lately she seems a little low in spirits . ’
8 She deserves a little break .
9 She feels a little spurt of anger over the great trees pollarded down to grey stumps .
10 In a crowded restaurant she gives a little scream at the plate which some overworked waitress has set before her and says , ‘ Oh , that 's far , far too much !
11 She does a little mime .
12 She does a little dance , making a noise like a trombone , then she bows and the hat falls off .
13 She makes a little lurch forward and he has the tray .
14 Having finished , she descends a little way down the twig and then lays another batch .
15 He recommends that you add up approximately how many tokens you think your child will earn in a typical day if he/she does the little chores you require and behaves in the manner you are trying to encourage .
16 Okay you can sort those out but when we get to take aways it goes a little bit odd does n't it .
17 He goes a little bit further down the road .
18 I think it lies a little bit deeper . ’
19 You 've got a very sharp increase and then after nineteen eighty two it stabilizes a little bit .
20 " Well , " Graham said slowly , deciding he had better say something nice , " it 's good , but perhaps it needs a little work . "
21 With Serafin back in Oxford and Mrs Padmore hard at work on the tapes he has a little time on his hands .
22 Yeah , he does , he thinks it 's another just that he has a little drink now and then .
23 If it 's gon na plague him and give him trouble let's get it sorted out this year , even if it means that he has a little bit of temporary deafness for a little while , you know ?
24 He has a little bit of a scratchiness in one of his eyes
25 He has a little scullery down there , where he cooks his mad grub .
26 And it looks a little bit sort of set up having that totally different stool brought into the picture .
27 Erm and then there 's one like a little living room , it has a little settee in it and chairs , you know , child size ?
28 I mean that 's the rules of debate , but I thought I 'd make that particular point because it has a little bit of poetic licence er in that .
29 I think it has no little merit ; but as a copy to be prefixed to the sweetly easy poems of Molly Leaper [ sic ] , had it not been written , I should not have advised the measure ; and yet I love that genius should shew its powers .
30 He says the little girl called Julie , the love-child of his fling with a New York drama teacher , gives him a sense of being alive .
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