Example sentences of "it with [art] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Take either currants , mulberries , raspberries or strawberries , sprinkle them with a little rose-water ; press out the juice , and draw the milk out of the cow 's udder into it ; sweeten it with a little sugar , and beat it well with birchen twigs , till it froth up ; then strew over it a little fine beaten cinamon , and it will be an excellent mess . |
| 2 | She bore it with a little smile of amusement that began to enrage me . |
| 3 | He began to whistle now , accompanying it with a little shuffle of his feet which brought a wide grin from Joe ; then becoming serious for a moment , he said , ‘ You knew , I do appreciate Martin getting leave to come home for my twenty-first . |
| 4 | He acknowledges her humiliation by jumping out of his side of the car , coming round to hers , opening the door for her and waiting ostentatiously for her awkwardly to tuck her legs inside before closing it with a little bow . |
| 5 | He returned it with a little bow . |
| 6 | On into the Room Without a Name they had passed and through to the room it communicated with , the Room of Astonishment , so called because it had a cupboard in it with a little staircase inside that wound its way up into the loft . |
| 7 | After expressing the cooked garlic from its skin , puree it with a little vegetable oil , raw coriander root and leaf , plus black pepper . |
| 8 | If you have the type of hair that can take it , try to leave hair to dry naturally , without heat , scrunching it with a little mousse . |
| 9 | I found a photograph of Paul as a baby in one of the albums I kept in the loft , and after the ceremony I wrote the name of the new catapult on the back of the picture , scrunched it up around a steelie and secured it with a little tape , then went down , out of the loft and the house , into the chill drizzle of a new day . |
| 10 | God , how novelists recover ! … and you begin to wonder how you can make use of it with a little shifting here , and a little adding there , something can be made of it , surely ? ’ |
| 11 | Erm , the only time it was really good in my area was when Urban District Council did it with a little chap pushing a barrow and cutting the grass and it all looked absolutely beautiful . |
| 12 | The roundness of the pleat is improved by filling it with a little wadding or a tube of curtain buckram . |
| 13 | All her family , like they all just drink tea with a very little drop of milk in it , and she always drank it with a little drop of milk , and then , she decided not to drink it with milk at all . |
| 14 | Her argument was that it had offered the women of rock ‘ much worship with little esteem … choosing their image from among the already available fantasies and maybe undercutting it with a little irony . ’ |