Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adj] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the reason for this incredible experience , there can be little doubt that it was the supernatural echoes of the train which once ran along that peaceful little branch line . |
| 2 | You next time you come to do it you 'll be doing you 'll remember nearly as much as we 're doing today but perhaps some odd little bits you 'll think , ooh now how did we do that I ca n't quite work out . |
| 3 | Obviously this wicked little thing appealed to him . |
| 4 | There 's so many strange little things- ’ She was staring at the shelves of the dresser , where various antique plates ( prized by Lucy for the colour of their glaze , or the intricacy of their design ) vied for attention with two corn dollies , a brass frog , some Victorian bottles and two tall feathery maidenhair ferns . |
| 5 | Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything . |
| 6 | ‘ Will you explain to your driver , ’ she yelled furiously , ‘ that I 'm the fuel technician from IMP and not some stupid little blonde who ca n't wait to get to know him better ? ’ |
| 7 | Big Irish Tom had pulled down his shorts and grabbed his willy to show everyone that he was truly a boy and not some soppy little girl who fainted at the sight of turkey innards . |
| 8 | The last few feet required only a very slight rearward movement of the yoke to arrest the sink , and she touched with just one stiff-legged little bounce . |
| 9 | Just two isolated little genera of birds do it , and those two have nothing else in common with each other except that both live in caves . |
| 10 | One way to ward off these unwelcome little indicators of stress would seem obvious — immediately give up the exercise that brings them on , and reach for a stiff , hugely relaxing drink . |
| 11 | Then there is also that nasty little disorder called ‘ eating amnesia ’ which afflicts us all from time to time . |
| 12 | Three men would go along , pick up this poor little three-piece suite , put it on the van , deliver it perhaps two hundred yards up the road . |
| 13 | ‘ So what are you suggesting : that I make up some nice little story ? |
| 14 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 15 | As we walked around this pretty little island we were charmed by the friendliness of the local people . |
| 16 | Maybe even this quaint little matchbox on wheels would n't be here . " |
| 17 | Leaf-roll sawfly This clever little beast is given a fair description and discussion in the answer to question number 52 on page 208 , which , with Figure 13 above , will enable you to spot that it has been on your plants . |
| 18 | Shannon groaned , wondering where that errant little thought had sprung from . |
| 19 | ( If the film had a serious weakness , it was that there was too much Naughty Little Sister stuff for Lilian in supermarkets and car parks . ) |
| 20 | ‘ She is a very sweet natured little thing , very non-aggressive , and Mia liked her from the very start , ’ said Marie . |