Example sentences of "that [adj] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | That frigid little scene you treated me to over breakfast ? ’ |
| 2 | Every year we see that doleful little puppy on the television screen and every year thousands of people give pets for Christmas . |
| 3 | Where it says cars on that bloody little green bit |
| 4 | Stay kerbside — yeah , that sick-looking little guy there . |
| 5 | ‘ You think I 'm afraid of that weak little creature ? ’ he growled . |
| 6 | And you seemed to have become attached to that awful little room in the Hospedaje Lisboa . |
| 7 | ‘ That awful little man from Gibraltar . |
| 8 | I was away and then I had that awful little cough first thing in the morning erm and I think I , to be quite honest , I lost interest in going . |
| 9 | That fiery little mother of yours ? |
| 10 | That brazen little hussy . |
| 11 | After that brazen little display , I 'd advise you not to bother . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ That prim little British heart is safe from me , is it , Shelley ? ’ |
| 13 | You 'll be known ever more as ‘ that girly little tit who wrote the crybaby letter ’ . |
| 14 | What should that placid little people know of the rattle and rush of an express train , typical as it is of the nerve-wasting haste with which we Westerners live our lives ? |
| 15 | Christopher 's serious childish voice , making that odd little pause between words , as if he still needed to think of them . |
| 16 | But I can only retrieve her lips , those lightly ribbed , juicy lips , studded and patterned in close-up like a mulberry or a raspberry , their almost leathery texture if you were to brush them with your fingertips or tongue tip ( that snaky little organ equipped with ideas of its own ) . |
| 17 | But I enjoyed your tte — tte with Naomi in that choochy little patisserie , although I 'd like to smack her for one or two of her remarks . ’ |
| 18 | On 4 March he wrote : ‘ [ The breakfasts ] give me a good opportunity of studying that strange little genius who presides over us . |
| 19 | He really seems to like that strange little girl . |
| 20 | BRITISH yuppies yearning for that charming little place they saw in the Dordogne last summer have probably never heard of Compagnie Bancaire . |
| 21 | You know when you 've rubbed the olive oil on and licked it all off again ? well what 's that funny little stick for ? |
| 22 | But , now , as part of the outcome of this very unfortunate day , he felt a new responsibility towards " that funny little thing " , his daughter . |
| 23 | And when he went for his injections I said to the vet can you snip that funny little growth and he said oh we 'll wait until he 's under , complete anaesthetic and then , it 's only a little wart he said . |
| 24 | ‘ And when I do , my lady , we 'll get back to that interesting little conversation we were having . ’ |
| 25 | Basically it 's two things coming together and becoming more than their whole , you 've got two things two people working together producing more than what two people can produce it 's the relationship that produces that extra little bit more . |
| 26 | I mean it would be just as well to buy another thing of coffee because at the moment you get that extra little erm |
| 27 | Was it too much to think that that dying little creature with the last of her strength had carried her kitten to the only haven of comfort and warmth she had ever known in the hope that it would be cared for there ? |
| 28 | But if you stand there much longer in that tiny little nightshirt … ’ |
| 29 | And if that word , if that tiny little word did n't really mean anything , why did it hurt so much that he had n't used it ? |
| 30 | We need to break that dangerous little habit and the only way is by education . |