Example sentences of "have [verb] [adj] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT is true that John Fullard of Hartlepool only appears here when he has had some little difficulty with the Post Office . |
| 2 | He has got that little bit of alertness and determination that the likes of Rideout , Cottee and Johnston have all been lacking . |
| 3 | And she 'd got two little rings of carrots left on her plate . |
| 4 | No , I 'm sure that they 'd got two little rooms on the ground floor and they were choc-a-block you could hardly get in ! |
| 5 | But she 'd got this little bit of oh I do n't know , a little bit of coarseness about her . |
| 6 | I think if he 'd driven poor little Makepeace to a nervous breakdown , his reaction would simply have been ‘ so that 's how far one has to go , to have that effect . ’ ’ |
| 7 | I 'd changed some little thing — a line-up or stance , ca n't even remember fully — but Nick was over the moon . |
| 8 | And you find you see you 've got that little thing to put your clutch foot on as well . |
| 9 | It 's the I not , I mean he should have grouted that little bit and he should n't have put |
| 10 | Lutton , reasonably happy with his performance in last weekend 's Irish trials in Dublin , accepts he may have to wait that little bit longer to gain Irish recognition . |
| 11 | You could have said this little piggy went to market ! |
| 12 | Normally the thought would have made timid little Miss Fogerty quail . |
| 13 | The sun was shining this time , but Alyssia would have remembered that little house anywhere . |
| 14 | Herr Hans-Eberhard Klein , the Frankfurt prosecutor who led the search , said : ‘ I am glad it is over , but I would rather have had a live Mengele than a dead one so that some of the thousands who suffered under him could have gained some little satisfaction from a trial . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Rochester , you should have sent that little girl — Adèle , is that her name ? — to school , but I see you have a governess for her . |
| 16 | You 'll have to make some little baps and bring them |
| 17 | Your mum must have read that little finger . |
| 18 | The one time Mayor of Arden , father of the bruised Grace ( ‘ Had it been Paddy Ashdown I would n't have minded one little bit ’ ) , had checked in at the desk and was about to carry his overnight bag up to his room when he noticed her through the glass door of an adjoining room . |
| 19 | It 's funny , but I seem to have known that little habit for the whole of my life already . |
| 20 | but I think now you 've included this little foreground it really brings the whole picture to life . |
| 21 | I 've seen two little ones mum . |
| 22 | Last year 's crop of court cases at the Old Bailey reported in national newspapers included : a French master who had a store of pornographic photos of teenage pupils dating back ten years ; a religious education master who simulated sexual intercourse in front of his pupils ( the Old Bailey heard he had done this little party trick dozens of times at different schools ) ; a primary school teacher who was allowed to go on teaching after being found guilty of ‘ lewd , indecent and libidinous practices ’ against ten- and 11-year old boys ; and a music teacher in Sussex who had raped , attempted to rape and indecently assaulted hundreds of girls over many years . |
| 23 | I was enormously glad she had made that little speech for the mere sight of Erich — the knowledge that a man who worked as a painter in a Ford Taunus factory and was , in his own way , a type-specimen of Atlantic man , with no known connections with the new Ocean , had somehow fetched up on a remote Pacific island — was disturbing the entire thesis I wished to construct . |
| 24 | I thought she had written another little book about Angria . |
| 25 | you 've got that little window , then drainpipe ? |
| 26 | No well what they 've got is they 've got that little settee thing that two seater |
| 27 | It 's almost as if we think subconsciously well we 've got that little bit extra , let's go for it . |
| 28 | and she said my sister spends I mean , we 're now talking about nineteen seventy my sister spends twelve and six a week on things from for the house on the hire purchase if she ever truly runs into debt she 'll save part of the cost of the thing , you know and then she knows that she 's always going to have to put twelve and six a week aside but she does that and buys things for the house and you see if you 've got if you 've got that little bit of extra coming in it 's quite well it 's like my lodgers , Brenda if I could n't if I could n't get what I need from my lodgers well Neil pays me Neil 's house rent which thirty pound a week |
| 29 | No , I live on my own , I got , I 've got one little television in my own sort of bedsitter . |
| 30 | We did n't really need to cut it up into so many small pieces i would work but we 'd get two of these each cos we 've got twelve little pieces now and there are only six of us to share it out so we 'd say , Oh well have er we 'll we 'll have two pieces each two twelfths . |