Example sentences of "[noun sg] have a little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One side of Terrace had a little garden , a little postage stamp , no ever so small . |
| 2 | Most parents graduate to giving one warning after the initial command so that the child has a little time in which to respond but parents need to be very careful that they do n't lapse into nagging to get the child to comply again . |
| 3 | Old Man with a Child has a little girl facing a seated old man who holds her hands , and in Old Man Holding an Infant the tiny baby is being cradled by a bald old man with bushy white side-whiskers . |
| 4 | When they were younger he and Grandma had a little farm and I think that Grandma did not have an easy life with him and had to do a good bit of the farm work . |
| 5 | The results in table 3.4 were obtained for the test sentence : mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow and everywhere that mary went the lamb was sure to go |
| 6 | And there they 'd be chatting across to one another or come to each others ' doors and h you know pass time of day having a little chat about one thing and another . |
| 7 | Policeman having a little word with a sa , motorcyclist down here by the looks of it ! |
| 8 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 9 | The tea tasted horrible but at least it gave me the chance to have a little think . |
| 10 | Later , while sitting at the kitchen table making a special list of people to help with Easter flowers , and a subsidiary list of those who might be approached to donate Easter lilies , Anna and her conscience had a little tussle . |
| 11 | it pull a bloody big just let it give yours paper have a little bit of |
| 12 | And there used to be a man had a little forge on the top , a chap named , an old man . |
| 13 | He was turning over in his mind the best way to have a little talk with Pickerage . |
| 14 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 15 | Penny was Sixer of the Kelpies , and when her granny had given her a beautiful budgie for a birthday present she decided to name it Kelpie after her Six , especially as the bird had a little silver patch on his throat — just as if he was wearing the Promise Badge , Penny pointed out gleefully . |
| 16 | We 're also told the projected DEC Alpha workstation/server Sandpiper has a little friend called Pelican built around an Alpha Lite chip and expected to give 70% of Sandpiper 's performance . |
| 17 | Just time to have a little chat about greyhounds with our greyhound man , Mick Weeble ; I think you gave us one winner last week did n't you Mick ? |
| 18 | Usually it was cold working on the aeroplane and in , so each tank had a little stove in it . |
| 19 | I agreed to care for ‘ our ’ baby whilst her mother had a little happiness . |