Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] little " in BNC.

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1 so it 's all hot on the plate and served straight away you know , luckily erm I managed it but I got in a little bit of a flap I will admit it whereas Shirl 's now got used to that I mean I when we first came we both used to do our own help each other out I used to help out but erm
2 I sucked at the little trickle of blood from my finger .
3 I stopped in a little restaurant and ordered a hot dog by pointing at a picture of one that hung over the greasy counter .
4 When it began to grow dark I noticed through the little connecting window that he did n't put his light on ; this alarmed me , somehow .
5 I climbed into the little turret down from the Bird .
6 Just then I glanced through the little bedroom window and saw all the women and kids still hanging about outside .
7 He led , and I followed like a little sheep .
8 I watched for every little sign of a rift between you both .
9 And I knew for a little while that would be true .
10 I looked at the little boy , lying there , and caught a glimpse of the father peeping from the corridor .
11 I looked at the little priest and grinned at Benjamin .
12 Lt Tim Kelly , 45 , a specialist in mobile air operations , said : ‘ I looked for a little girl who had been injured by shrapnel so I could have her winched aboard .
13 I looked into the little mirror for just a moment .
14 I thought of the little touches of home there would be inside it : the hand-knitted pullover , the familiar English toothpaste , and the razor blades fastened together with elastic bands .
15 I went to the little room in the guest house in Lillie road , especially booked for me .
16 I went to the little Moravian Chapel nearby and prayed Sir Malcolm Sargent 's prayer for ‘ God 's Ancient People , the Jews . ’
17 That evening , instead of having dinner at the house , Fritz and I went to the little hotel in the town of Zenda where I had stayed before .
18 My English travelling companion was game to try the dulse seaweed , which is a speciality in Ballycastle , so I went into a little shop on the seafront .
19 And while I was waiting for them I I went into a little shop and For some cigarettes , and er me brother y Oh younger brother , we 'd started him up er f he was a plumber .
20 Scorning more than a small peppermint humbug , I went into the little church of St. Nicholas .
21 So I went like a little lamb following a mother sheep , back to the same room .
22 I crossed over the little pack horse bridge .
23 I walked off the ship , and I slept in a little house near the sea .
24 So I slept in a little damp attic room which smelt of apples , my head not very far away from the dream-troubled heads of Shelley and his mistress .
25 I ran into the little fair-haired boy and his mother again in the queue at the paydesk .
26 I joined in , and I ran after a little white girl and grabbed her .
27 I stood in the little clearing round the ruined walls .
28 I awoke in the Little Ease , a smelly , rat-filled dungeon , watered by the sewers of the Fleet river and the slops of the prison bearing the same name .
29 ‘ We 've done it , ’ she whispered into the little cave made by her fingers .
30 Cos her sons had got married and she lived in a little bu flat , bungalow rather .
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