Example sentences of "[pos pn] little [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She is my little heifer . ’ |
2 | HELLO MY LITTLE FLOWERPOTS ! |
3 | And I heard the bathroom window open and I went in there , I was just having a look , admiring my little shed roof there ! |
4 | And now Terry has gone and there 's only Mother to cope with — and a long , sterile life looming in front of me — without my little Ellie , who briefly brought some sunshine in . |
5 | ‘ I shall want to know all about you , and each time you fail to answer , I 'm afraid I shall have to use my little persuader . ’ |
6 | My chance came some weeks later , when he visited me one November evening in my little cottage . |
7 | My little stand to go with the microphone , I had it here probably fallen in my handbag . |
8 | And gossip need n't be malevolent ; my Little Oxford Dictionary defines it simply as ‘ informal talk , esp about persons . ’ |
9 | Tina Dicks , whose son Thomas , aged six , attends the school , said : ‘ My little boy is extremely happy there and is coming on by leaps and bounds . |
10 | ‘ She 's got to look nice for when we go up the hospital to see my little boy . ’ |
11 | My little boy cried for days . |
12 | My little boy Connor , who is five , took to Gemma straight away and we were a really happy family . |
13 | He feared for her , for ‘ my little boy ’ , and for the girl too . |
14 | ‘ I see my little boy every weekend . |
15 | My little boy has just rammed a cheese sandwich up my nose ! |
16 | My little boy was playing football in the back garden when he fell over . |
17 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
18 | It happened because me and my little boy were living with my mam . |
19 | And my little boy was he was only about three at the time and I used to be used to angry at him and my neighbour used to come in and take him . |
20 | The youngest queen , Goiko 's wife , said , " Willingly will I do this for you , but what about my little boy , little Jovo ? |
21 | Invariably , whenever I am out shopping with my little boy , conversation with people we meet turns to sweets , with questions like ‘ Are you going to buy some sweets today ? ’ or ‘ Does n't he want sugar in his drink ? ’ |
22 | My little boy honestly prefers a bag of nuts or fruit , and is n't partial to anything sweet or sugary . |
23 | Yet , when she found him , more or less alone in the bar parlour although she was aware of Ned O'Mara somewhere nearby , she could n't stop talking , words rushing out of her , spilling one over the other , over and over " Please , please , oh please , you can help me if you want to , I know you can , and I 'll go mad you see if they take my little boy away , because he 's not-not just as he should be — more delicate than he should be . |
24 | " I have my little boy and my mother to think of . " |
25 | " My little boy has nothing to wear for the cold weather . " |
26 | Forget Sophie , who was given to drama and tantrum anyway , what about Ben , my little boy ? |
27 | And we had our hiccups and we had all sorts of you know difficult moments for all of us where we all had to face ourselves and You know I remember my little boy said , Oh Mum y what about my Christmas you know I was putting a lot of time into the the striker 's Christmas and he said how do you become a striker 's child ? |
28 | Every time he heard a knock at the door , my little boy used to hide under the bed . |
29 | ‘ Then I lost my little boy . ’ |
30 | Oh really I ought to take my little boy for a walk |