Example sentences of "they have a little [noun sg] " 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 .
13 which was we do n't know who won we do n't know what the score was but we think that but we 're , we 're assuming that that 's because they bring out all their secret showmen who do n't sh travel they have a little core , hard core of that do n't travel but they , they bring them out
14 They leave them in these lay-bys while they have a little kip or a cup of tea .
15 They have a little foot hole .
16 You 've seen the advert for KitKat have n't you where they have a little break sitting in the back of the van and the settee 's on the floor and the carpet 's on the floor and there 's a a lamp in there and there 's a piece of furni to one side .
17 Or they have a little book where they can look it up .
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