Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Spey is down , however , there is a final 25 yd shoot down a narrow rocky little gut under the same trees . |
| 2 | All the snotty spotty little nerds who support them , who would go weak at the knees and soil themselves if they ever ever went to see MUFC and met the abovementioned evil evil types . |
| 3 | Luckily neither the G.P.O. or McAlpine 's had any vacancies and after a marathon hatchet-burying session Jake , Ali McMordie , Henry Cluney and Dolphin Taylor decided to dust off the old Stiff Little Fingers ' backdrop and head out on tour . |
| 4 | Now , we 've seen Jane as a passionate , spirited outspoken little girl have n't we ? |
| 5 | The standard NCO , having drawn his victim stiffly to attention , would inform him in colourful and lurid detail on his shortcomings , concluding briskly by observing that he was , for example : ‘ A bleedin ‘ orrible cross-eyed little git . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 're a self-opinionated self-righteous little turd . ’ |
| 7 | As a newspaper review of the 1931 Saltash Fair concluded , ‘ Goodbye Saltash , dear quaint little town with a past — what will your future be ? ’ |
| 8 | These tiny helpless little things that just come to life day by day , until they 're people . |
| 9 | We 'll have we 'll we 'll have a very short tiny tiny little look at it even though it 's almost a holiday , right . |
| 10 | Yes he was , you see and he used to come down , you know , and everybody 's family waiting to go into that tiny tiny little surgery but I do n't know if it 's the same now and the door half open in er well , anyway , still er he , he , he , he used to put something in a bottle and fill it up with water some liquid |
| 11 | Never again would anyone offer her an iron bed in a dark poky little room . |
| 12 | Of his almighty dreadful little might . |
| 13 | I hate all ordinary dull little people who are n't ashamed of being dull and little . |
| 14 | Oh these are little dear little |
| 15 | It was complete with bar and barman , hot-dog simmerer , king-sized double-doored two-tone refrigerator , drugstore hotplates , big-game trophies on the walls ( the host was a big-game hunter who acted in his spare time ) , and huge , deep , low divans and easy chairs — villainously uncomfortable for men , but marvellously made for cute little women who could tuck their cute little legs away and blazingly efface their cute little pretty little pouting little personalities in niches of the vast furniture and make like cute little pussycats . |
| 16 | So there were no little budding little strike leaders or Arthur Scargills in the pack . |
| 17 | The vaguely fluttering nerves suddenly crystallised themselves into a hard painful little knot in her stomach and she bent over with a groan . |
| 18 | Well that was a one up and one down and a little tiny little scullery and it had a little tiny back yard . |
| 19 | It was complete with bar and barman , hot-dog simmerer , king-sized double-doored two-tone refrigerator , drugstore hotplates , big-game trophies on the walls ( the host was a big-game hunter who acted in his spare time ) , and huge , deep , low divans and easy chairs — villainously uncomfortable for men , but marvellously made for cute little women who could tuck their cute little legs away and blazingly efface their cute little pretty little pouting little personalities in niches of the vast furniture and make like cute little pussycats . |
| 20 | A husky laugh and he runs off to try out the gag on a wheel-chaired pallid little pal , recovering from a recent kidney transplant . |
| 21 | They are far too civilised for that sort of thing in Bangladesh , but I kept thinking wistfully of T. S. Eliot 's lines in Sweeney Agonistes about ‘ a nice little white little missionary stew ’ . |
| 22 | I 'll also pack everything that 's in that little black little black bag . |
| 23 | He must n't be expected to make an effort when he does n't feel like it , he must n't risk being hemmed in or bored , but everyone has to be ever so careful of his feelings , poor sensitive soul , and when he wants a good fuck he comes to obliging loving little Ruth because he can relieve himself and have his morale boosted without having to do a damned thing about it but get himself into your bed . ’ |
| 24 | You little scraggy little ! |
| 25 | The poor dim little creatures doubtless need all the help they can get , and I promise not to confuse them with anything so threatening as an idea . ’ |
| 26 | My instant response was that he would not remember who I was ( poor old little insignificant me ) . |
| 27 | Oh poor , poor angelic little Peter . |
| 28 | And , again in contrast to being a useful , helpful sensible little girl , was her cosy friendship with the changing series of under-housemaids who laughed so readily at her jokes and gave her lumps of sugar from morning tea trays — sometimes it was a peppermint . |
| 29 | Oh , the patient looked a mess , but Kath had seen the enormous care that had gone into the alignment of each suture , the meticulous attention not only to the innumerable tiny little muscle fibres , nerves and blood vessels but to laughter lines and wrinkles to ensure that the tissues were realigned as closely as possible to their original position . |
| 30 | Frequent vicious little attacks undertaken by both sides to make a minor tactical gain here and there regularly supplemented the long casualty lists caused by the relentless pounding of the rival artilleries . |