Example sentences of "have [been] [art] little [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must 've been a little bit of snow |
| 2 | There has been no little debate over the wisdom and effects of these operations . |
| 3 | Fabre has been a little quiet in the early stages of the new season in France but is expected to produce one of his best three-year olds , Corrouge , in the Prix de Quincy , a maiden race , at Evry on Monday . |
| 4 | Spokesman Peter Kessler said : ‘ Negotiations are progressing pretty well , but there has been a little bit of foot-dragging on the Serbian side . ’ |
| 5 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 6 | As to his feelings for Madeleine , nurtured since he 'd been a little boy , even were they to be revived , it seemed unlikely Madeleine would respond to him . |
| 7 | I suppose my eyes must have been a little red . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , but you must have been a little girl once , Headmistress . |
| 9 | FOR BEA AND EUGENIE IT MUST HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT BEWILDERING … |
| 10 | It was a sort of a , as you grew older mind you , it was i i i it could have been a little bit of a miserable sort of day . |
| 11 | But he added : ‘ I think it might have been a little bit too early . |
| 12 | ‘ But somehow she got through and Tony may have been a little bit tired . ’ |
| 13 | What seeped out of the and mixed with some air from there would have been a little dung in it to it stood half the summer and got to be really high . |
| 14 | However unbelievable , it had to have been the little mestizo . |
| 15 | She had been a little waif then , in her Yorkshire homespun . |
| 16 | She had been a little brick , Doreen . |
| 17 | Looking back , he thought he had been a little bit crazy , last night . |
| 18 | Rumours had it also that there had been a little bit of nasty business first . |
| 19 | ‘ If only there had been a little bit more flexibility on the United States side I think it could have been successfully accomplished . ’ |
| 20 | As to the restaurant itself , I recall that we had to shuffle and wriggle our way out between the crowded tables , and that the noise had been a little taxing on the nerves . |
| 21 | There had been a little unrest among the servants , particularly in the kitchen and pantries where Dora was resentful of finding Alexandra counting bottles of damsons and crocks of lard , and thrown totally into disarray by Alexandra 's demanding to be allowed to stir the jam or weigh out ingredients for chutney made from the vast harvest of plums . |
| 22 | There had been a little accident and Dr. Bonnard 's medical skills would be used to save life . |
| 23 | ever since you 've been a little girl you 've been a wind-up merchant . |
| 24 | She 's know me since I 've been a little girl . |
| 25 | erm I 've been a little bit appalled by the levity with which some of our extreme , extremist politicians recently have spoken about abrogating this or that international obligation entered by the country if a general election returns them to power , as if a , a self-respecting state can do that in a state system . |
| 26 | There may have been one or two planning applications which have been a little bit difficult to deal with but that 's life surely . |
| 27 | He 's been a little funkateer since ‘ 85 , but he used to come around to the Bootsy Collins Rubber Band shows back in ‘ 75 and ‘ 76 . |
| 28 | And Toby 's been a little angel this afternoon . |
| 29 | League secretary Mike Foster said : ‘ There 's been a little bit of manoeuvring — but there has never been any doubt that it was going to be signed . ’ |
| 30 | She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she 's been a little bit nervous about it . |