Example sentences of "to have a little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hopes ( ‘ in a money sense ’ ) that he will ‘ get the Civil Service post : Nice to have a little money to spare above the necessaries of life . ’ |
| 2 | Leave him alone to have a little sleep . |
| 3 | Jesus is calling his disciples to have a little faith . |
| 4 | It 's simply calling us to have a little faith . |
| 5 | London ! ’ cried Victoria every time the train , a slow , halting , bucolic train , drew to a standstill , either at a drowsy country station where cow parsley foamed along the line or simply nowhere , among the fields , to have a little rest . |
| 6 | I think they were glad to have a little time to themselves . |
| 7 | When Mrs Carson had left , Ruth suggested , ‘ I think you ought to have a little nap , Anna . |
| 8 | and they used to have a little screw |
| 9 | ‘ Try to have a little patience , Miriam , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ Try to have a little patience and understanding , ’ he said softly . |
| 11 | I think especially in the , in the hotel project it 's useful to have a little bar chart saying this is what goes on in a bathroom . |
| 12 | Do n't shout at me ; it gives a ghost a fright I 've only come to have a little chat I do not think we 've met . |
| 13 | ‘ Gone to have a little chat with a friend , has she , son ? ’ |
| 14 | Sit down , my dear , I 'd like to have a little chat with you . |
| 15 | ‘ I want to have a little chat with you sometime , Bob , ’ he said . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Time for us to have a little chat , sir , ’ Hatchard said to me . |
| 18 | Anyway , I phoned her up the other day to have a little chat with her . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been too busy to take him out all day , and I do like him to have a little outing . ’ |
| 21 | You have to have a little bit of presence about you ; and that 's what made me here . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | So I suppose you 've got to have a little bit of a thick skin . … . ’ |
| 24 | So you 've got to have a little bit of patience in relation to what other road users may do . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | That 's all you have , that 's only have to have a little bit . |
| 28 | But it makes sense to me to have a little bit of help . |
| 29 | I used to have a little bit and I shall see the same with my little boys and girls |
| 30 | 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 |