Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [adj] little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no I did n't want to leave a little , only want to leave a proper little drain things , you know |
| 2 | He 'd made a super little dart across the line of Forest defenders . |
| 3 | yeah well as long as we get to school for half past , I mean but she 'd got a nice little cauliflower and , I think she 'd got a carton some sort of . |
| 4 | She 'd got a pathetic little bit in the Post Office — she helped us all out from time to time — but not enough to set up anywhere . |
| 5 | I tried an Indian-looking middle-aged man with a pouchy face hidden beneath a large brimmed hat , and a paunchy stomach that seemed to run a perfect little circle round his navel hidden beneath a scruffy fair-isle sweater hidden beneath a wrinkly brown jacket hidden beneath an overcoat which brushed the homeless autumn leaves strewn despairingly across the lawns . |
| 6 | The Unbeheld 's going to forgive a poxy little trespass like that . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're going to look a proper little madam . |
| 8 | ‘ Are you sure you do n't remember telling a poor little girl named Sybil some stupid story about being turned into a frog ? ’ |
| 9 | And then you 've got to introduce a new little group which is halfway between that and what starts bar sixteen . |
| 10 | Right I just wondered if she gave you an address cos it you know got a super little town map here . |
| 11 | I suppose they felt that the viewing public needed to see a nice little clump of easily identified people , which on first glance they could decide whether they liked or not . |
| 12 | It would have made a compact little home except it was painted dark brown like the corridors . |
| 13 | The segments of lemon embedded in clear apple jelly must have made a ravishing little dessert dish : |
| 14 | You chose to believe a stinking little rat who ca n't take the fact that a woman might just be better at his job than he is ! ’ |
| 15 | As he stepped out of the elevator and strode towards her , she felt her heartbeat do a funny little dance . |
| 16 | You 've given a goodly little pile here . |
| 17 | Since her social life in Northam did not exist outside school , she had no evening clothes , and had had nothing resembling a party dress since the age of six , when she had possessed a fetching little garment of pink satin . |
| 18 | Zoe had written a neat little note on each . |
| 19 | It had been a Church of Ireland rectory once , where some forgotten incumbent , a keen hunting man , had built a delightful little yard , adjoining the house and with every horsebox looking into the sun ; with a hundred acres of good limestone land , the place was just the thing for Andrew and his horse-dealing . |
| 20 | Er , you 've got a nasty little streak |
| 21 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 22 | There was a little exhibition called The Nude and basically they 've got a nice little Picture Gallery there with sort of various things in , but they also had some lovely anatomy books beside it and so on , some amazing engravings , you know , entire body structures , skeletal man , muscular man , . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've got a neat little ketch moored down at the marina . |
| 24 | She floated between dreams and fits of consciousness , then she saw Philip leaning over her and she thought someone said , ‘ You 've got a lovely little boy , thanks be to God … ’ but it did n't seem real . |
| 25 | Barnet may not be able to offer the executive box comforts of the North London giants but you can see what Fry means when he says : ‘ We 've got a lovely little club here . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 've got a wonderful little girl She knows how to cut and sew-one blouse every fifteen days-My little girl do n't eat very much — Just a mountain of bread a week ! ’ |
| 27 | We 've got a fine little school here , I 'm sure you 'd agree — ’ Hilary Frome looked at him with a light of pure idealism in his eyes , but he drew the line at assenting — ‘ but what 's going to count in the years ahead is what we 've got up top . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've got a sweet little face , ’ she said . |
| 29 | I 've bought a ducky little suit and matching hat . |
| 30 | It wanted to catch a fat little pig for its supper . ’ |