Example sentences of "to have a little [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they were glad to have a little time to themselves . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | ‘ Gone to have a little chat with a friend , has she , son ? ’ |
| 4 | Sit down , my dear , I 'd like to have a little chat with you . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to have a little chat with you sometime , Bob , ’ he said . |
| 6 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
| 7 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 8 | You have to have a little bit of presence about you ; and that 's what made me here . |
| 9 | That 's right , yes it should , erm , these , these are n't completed , but even so the ones that we , we , I have done that too I 've opened out , having performed them , you still need to have a little bit of an idea |
| 10 | So I suppose you 've got to have a little bit of a thick skin . … . ’ |
| 11 | So you 've got to have a little bit of patience in relation to what other road users may do . |
| 12 | Now as you know when we used to do the sums we used to have a little bit of paper and , and work it out on this separate bit of paper , but he said to me out of the blue he said , where did it , how did you get that figure ? |
| 13 | So when you see a pair of horses move round and so that you do get them separated as they are , or any animal , not just horses , any animals really , get them separated , er or any , any object really , it 's better to have a little bit of separation . |
| 14 | But it makes sense to me to have a little bit of help . |
| 15 | So , we 're going there , then to have a little bit of fun , we 're going to have a talk and a guided tour and I 'll do the guided tour |
| 16 | nice to have a little bit of your concentrate . |
| 17 | And I 'm sorry we appear to have a little bit of a problem with that tape , we have the wrong tape . |
| 18 | Er and they ought to have a little shelter over it to stop your saddle getting wet if it rains . |
| 19 | John Watkins University Press I think there 's a copy in the library erm , you may want to have a little look at it , but so what we 're going do is we incorporate both these two hypothesis into a model supply response okay . |
| 20 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
| 21 | It will be something of a surprise to cricket lovers in the ‘ Strong Country ’ if Mark Nicholas 's team does n't go close again in either the Benson and Hedges or the NatWest , and the advice is to have a little saver on both eventualities ( 20–1 with Surrey for the Benson & Hedges and 14–1 with Chandler for the NatWest ) . |
| 22 | You could n't care less , one way or the other — you just came here to have a little fun at my expense . |
| 23 | It 's a very difficult task when you come to do it , if you want to have a little play at home . |
| 24 | Well very rarely it was I , actually I 'd say I was n't really furnished what they used to call the sofa down the one side and there was chairs around there was no three piece suite or anything like that , but er if it was a wet Sunday afternoon we 'd play draughts or games like that , as we grew older we used to play , play whist , so it was just a room for oh and we had a gramophone , I , I 've actually got the old gramophone case I have n't got the working part I 've got the case upstairs now , it was a , as long as I , we er , I bought it and the pals used to club around and buy a record each week there was er Parlaphone , they used to have a little shop on the corner of Street and Street , and we had it from there , and we used to buy a little , a small record perhaps once a week , perhaps once a month , but er I remember the first record we 'd , we 'd bought as a long play was No No Nanette and er a twelve inch record . |
| 25 | Yes Well I 'm just going to have a little nibble at the end of that . |
| 26 | In my final year the same group decided to have a little flutter on the Derby . |
| 27 | ‘ Matron has asked me to have a little talk to you about your temporary position as a special nurse in Marcus Ward . |
| 28 | ‘ I just came to have a little talk to you . |
| 29 | He was turning over in his mind the best way to have a little talk with Pickerage . |
| 30 | I 'd like to have a little talk with you . ’ |