I will come back tomorrow and check on our little patient.

She spent the evening running down the stairs to the clinic every half hour to check on her depressed little patient.

I'll get there but be a little patient with me - I just came back from a war.

After a long consultation they changed the treatment; but there was no change in the little patient.

You just may have to be a little patient.

The doctor has just told us that his poor little patient is out of danger.

"Take heart, little patient, there is reason to feel at home," he writes, describing his ideal hospital.

And, we're at a point in time here where we've just got to be a little patient.

This could make sense if he's a little patient.

"Try to be a little patient; she'll have to get up eventually."