Example sentences of "they had a little [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I really a word , and they had a little chat to us .
2 Yeah , but , but I 'm just saying they reckon on this , its like , they had a little chart , its either fair , good or excellent and like all the others there was like vision and wear and stuff and the vision of that erm , durability and vision capabilities were excellent on the , on the erm
3 they had a little watch house .
4 They had a little bit higher standard of living .
5 erm in the days when they had terraced houses back to back terraced houses erm well anywhere in the country I guess but but where I come from it was fine for the people who lived with their doors on the on the road but the people who lived at the other side of the block they could n't get from the road so every so often down the down the terrace they had a little alley way an entry I think you 'd probably call it in Scotland , do n't they ?
6 They had a little laugh together , both eyeing Charles with amused satisfaction .
7 Husband and wife and three boys , and later on they had a little girl .
8 They had a little baby , a girl .
9 They told me they had a little house not far away from where I lived , and that Dorothy was expecting a baby — twins , the doctor had said .
10 The items were n't greatly different on scores between they had a little graph .
11 Weeks went by and months went by ; in the course of time they had a little son .
12 A lot of them of course went to the quarries , but then they had a little steamer called the Florence Cook and she plied wherever she went and you probably know where she went .
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