Example sentences of "the [adj] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then to the accompanying curious twitch of a dozen net curtains , and a wave and smile from Josey and Charlie , they were gliding off down the narrow little street , rather like , Lisa thought , a ship gliding across water . |
| 2 | From where he was sitting by the narrow little window he had a view of the meagre garden and beyond it , in the distance , a huge white bull in a field of white heifers . |
| 3 | Boswell is the one who tells us the legend of the seahorse from the lakes who devoured a man 's daughter , and was eventually trapped by the lure of a sow on a spit ; from Boswell we learn that of the hundred-strong little army the Laird of Raasay mustered , eighty-six came back from Culloden ; Boswell chronicles the ash and plane trees , the limestone rocks , the caves and their stalactites , the black cattle , the plover , the pigeons and blackcock , the rainfall , nine months in a year , the juniper , the peat , the belief in the existence of a gold mine , and the women wawking or waulking the tweed , a tedious operation where the tweed is rubbed over and through water in order to shrink and thicken it ( in the outer Hebrides they add their own urine to the vat , although Bozzie missed that one ) , and the women sang a worksong to accompany the rhythmic labour , and did not succeed in drowning out Johnson 's deep voice as he asked them questions . |
| 4 | Half expecting to see the hideous little creep , Grimwood , with his partner , Steve , the smartly dressed good-looking man standing there was a surprise . |
| 5 | Who could fail to notice the resplendent little cock wheatears by the roadside ? |
| 6 | He enjoyed the friendly little Convocation at York . |
| 7 | The friendly little Asian appeared from another door and held his hands out for our tickets . |
| 8 | All offer a friendly welcome and range in price from the first-class hotels to the friendly little restaurants and bistros in which the city abounds . |
| 9 | ‘ It was against this background that a man of impeccable character , a man of peace , felt such a degree of frustration and threat to the respectable little community in which he lived that he snapped . ’ |
| 10 | She groaned , pressing her hands over her ears , but it was n't that simple to cut off the insidious little voice . |
| 11 | The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too . |
| 12 | It was a version of the classic little black dress . |
| 13 | Barbara remembered last Wednesday and the odd little incident in Harrods . |
| 14 | I would also nominate William Trevor , who is comparison a miniaturist with a Dostoevskian eye for the odd little incident , the world of the irrational and the way it impinges on ordinary life . ’ |
| 15 | As the car which has been sent for him comes in along the odd little elevated motorway , only four lanes wide , most of the city seems to be below eye-level . |
| 16 | ‘ She 'd had the odd little — well , not affair , exactly , but romance . |
| 17 | They continued on along the line of booths , each with its owner sitting on the counter among his stained , dirty jars like some vast black spider , past the long , carpet-covered benches in front of them with the rows of men drinking coffee and smoking and talking , past the assorted smells of rose and jasmine , amber and banana , past the odd little restaurants with their grand brass jugs of hot water , their servants hurrying with coffee in glasses to some merchant about to strike a deal , past all this and then suddenly through the arch of the Bab es Zuweyla with its two soaring and fantastic minarets and out once more into the Tentmakers ' Bazaar with its donkey-saddles of red brocade and its camel-trappings adorned with cowries and little bits of looking-glass , its gaily-striped awnings and brilliant tent linings . |
| 18 | Could have the odd little shower . |
| 19 | When Hugh 's men had lifted Aldhelm 's body on to the litter , and set off down the path with it towards the Foregate , Tutilo fell in behind the sorry little procession like a mourner , and went silently step for step with them , his eyes still upon the shrouded body . |
| 20 | The mocking little smile was back on his face , and his eyes had resumed their watchful , vaguely arrogant look . |
| 21 | The plucky little hedgehog kept at it until the dog dish was empty and not a scrap remained . |
| 22 | She rushed to support the plucky little woman . |
| 23 | Soon all my master 's neighbours were talking about the strange little creature he had found in a field . |
| 24 | She did n't see Travis lift his head to look down at her sleeping form , nor the strange little smile that twisted his lips before he lay down again , tucking her body closely into the warmth of his . |
| 25 | They reached the surgery door at the same time as the strange little group and , as they ushered their client in , he said , ‘ We were just going to Sheldrake and Woodall when we saw your plate on Broom House gate . ’ |
| 26 | BANKS should give up their High Street locations and move into the back alleys with the grubby little money lenders they increasingly resemble . |
| 27 | But there were times too when he could not bear to look at the free birds and preferred to huddle wanly in the shadows of his shelter , where no visitors could see him , and stare at the bare , stained concrete that was his wild moorland , and the grubby little basin of water that was his lake and the few square feet of cage that was his sky . |
| 28 | She is also much taller than most of the grubby little men , which may have something to do with it . |
| 29 | While she was standing in the grubby little shop , this incongruous memory had flashed into her head at the sight of her face . |
| 30 | One evening , Ken told Timothy West , she assured him : ‘ You 're a very nice boy to stay up with me and chat about things every night — and I would n't be surprised if the right little lady does n't come along soon . ’ |