Example sentences of "[pers pn] had a little [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a little bit to eat . |
| 2 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 3 | I had a little dress made — it was a strapless taffeta number , very girly and aqua blue . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Oh you had a little lot did you ? |
| 6 | Once we had a little girl staying when Frost On Sunday was on and she asked Miles : ‘ Are there two Davids ? ’ |
| 7 | A lot of them of course went to the quarries , but then they had a little steamer called the Florence Cook and she plied wherever she went and you probably know where she went . |
| 8 | He had a little book called Blackie 's Guide to Flowers of the Wayside , and he and Constance always took it with them on their walks . |