Example sentences of "[prep] [be] a [adj] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he thought she was going to be a nice little stepsister he could think again ! |
| 2 | Despite what seemed to be a nice little boom , British productivity had grown more slowly than that of any comparable European country : 40 per cent compared with Germany 's and Italy 's 150 per cent , not to consider Japan 's 400 per cent . |
| 3 | And because he was sad , I put my hand on his shoulder , told him that I 'd known Billy to be a good little man ; funny , brave . |
| 4 | ‘ Practising to be a good little wife ? ’ |
| 5 | I find his thesis correct in general , but should like to add that the corruption which amounts to violence is likely to be suppressed in someone who has been trained to be a good little girl and can , as one of his own case histories demonstrates , express itself in other , less overt , terms . |
| 6 | ‘ I want you to be a good little girl and go home to Mummy and Daddy while I finish the season . |
| 7 | But most of all I just want Chloe to have the chance to be a healthy little girl . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose she made me out to be a right little idiot , ’ says Anya . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's going to be a proper little madam when she grows up ! ’ |
| 10 | It was to be a modest little magazine devoted to telling London what was going on . |
| 11 | I did n't really want to be a pretty little girl then . |
| 12 | Profumo unfortunately succumbed to the charms of a Miss Christine Keeler who — casting my mind back — appeared at the time to be an attractive little thing , and whose very appearance could be regarded as a warning to every husband anxious to preserve his marriage . |
| 13 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |