Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is especially interesting because Adelman ( 1976 : 86 ) cites a distinctive use of bovver ( as opposed to bother ) in teenage argot : " I had a little bother " , e.g. trouble starting the car , vs . |
| 32 | I had a little postcard and I ca n't find it |
| 33 | I , I had a little taste . |
| 34 | ‘ I felt numb from the neck upwards , which is the ideal way to play this game , ’ he said , ‘ and I had a little lesson yesterday from my friend David Jones . ’ |
| 35 | Besides she had a little money of her own . |
| 36 | When William had gone , she thought of all the things she had planned to do as soon as she had a little time to herself . |
| 37 | Outside their little house she had a little plot of land . |
| 38 | I could just make out that she had a little smile at the corner of her lips . |
| 39 | She had a little smile on her face because she had won that round easily and it gave her a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 40 | Well , not entirely , as she had a little girl of eighteen months old and her husband was missing reported killed in a bombing raid over Germany . |
| 41 | I very much enjoyed the unpretentious vocal quality of Ruth Holton though would like to have felt she had a little bit more in reserve . |
| 42 | She had a little mole above her pretty upper lip , so I knew it was she . |
| 43 | She had a little laugh about that . |
| 44 | Another , she had a little boy |
| 45 | She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else . |
| 46 | So she had a little book and she wrote some words in English and some in Arabic the |
| 47 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 48 | She enjoyed the pleasures of court life as much as her daughter ; and the woman who rejected Henry VIII 's proposal by saying that although she was a tall woman she had a little neck , showed that she did not lack wit . |
| 49 | Christine de Pizan continues : ‘ to prevent her beauty from distracting the concentration of her audience , she had a little curtain drawn in front of her . ’ |
| 50 | eating too much , I suppose if you had a little glass , then just one |
| 51 | I think you had a little bit of a soft spot for Poole did n't you , and you 'd have quite liked to have gone there and a little bit perhaps disappointed when you heard that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox ? |
| 52 | ‘ You had a little cream velvet coat with feather trimmings round the sleeves . ’ |
| 53 | Oh you had a little lot did you ? |
| 54 | You see , my dear , we had a little difficulty over which should adorn the top of the tree , the star of Bethlehem which is of course the only proper thing as well as being the only thing countenanced by the Rector , or an immensely glittering and unsuitable fairy doll someone was so ill-judged as to give to Helen . |
| 55 | We had a little chat with Unix System Labs president Roel Pieper last week and he did n't exactly rule out the possibility of USL making a takeover move on Santa Cruz Operation Inc ( UX No 396 ) : however , he said , it would n't be a good business value unless both firms were committed to going in the same direction . |
| 56 | Once we had a little girl staying when Frost On Sunday was on and she asked Miles : ‘ Are there two Davids ? ’ |
| 57 | Your cousin warned me off again , we had a little set-to in the pub , so I thought I 'd better come and make me mark . ’ |
| 58 | We had a little bit of money , we wanted all these things for the baby , but he could n't afford the money . |
| 59 | Yes yo your hands used to be purple an and the brass work on the dredger cos we had , we had a little bit of brass work they all used to turn green and to clean it , used to turn green . |
| 60 | And we had a little drive to er what was it called Fast Eddy 's . |