Example sentences of "little [noun sg] who had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I did remember — it was Malcolm , the little queer who had scratched my face all those years ago . |
| 2 | The little miss who had recited a " Purple Pussycat " with such aplomb was beginning to find her true vocation . |
| 3 | I sat in the children 's ward , the only one left , and nursed a little boy who had once again returned , but who had developed a whooping cough complication on ‘ the day ’ itself . |
| 4 | This was fantastic for a little boy who had never seen such a toy . |
| 5 | Another interesting case is that of a little boy who had had a difficult birth and had been left slightly spastic . |
| 6 | I FEEL sorry for the parents of the little boy who had his face ripped open by an alsatian . |
| 7 | For the little boy who had found a family could not begin to understand the anguish he had unwittingly caused to the family who had lost a little boy … |
| 8 | An agonising first nine years of life , this was a little boy who had seen things that little boys and little girls should never see . |
| 9 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 10 | I know a little boy who had that |
| 11 | Occasionally , he 'd bounce back on stage and do the whole thing with the strobe lights and everything which sent one poor little girl who had epilepsy into a fit . |
| 12 | She jumped back with a startled squeak , but Bridhe laughed ; and then she saw the little girl who had slipped in under her arm to comfort the baby . |
| 13 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |
| 14 | Or the desperate plight of a little girl who had been in an orphanage since she was a month old . |
| 15 | The muscle wastage had caused a dropped foot — like the little girl who had been treated by Alec . |
| 16 | When I was in Moscow , my grandmother was with me and everything that I wanted she was doing for me and I was a little girl who had everything . |
| 17 | That the little girl who had sat on her granny 's knee and smiled and laughed , would grow up to give herself to anyone and everyone who asked her ? |
| 18 | I wanted her , at my convenience , to become a nurturing Mother Earth figure who would take care of my when I felt unable to cope , and the little girl who had never grown up was crying out for help and approval . |
| 19 | He came into the kitchen after a few moments and she turned away , wandering to the far side to get away from him , battling with the sudden incredible desire to break down and sob like a little girl who had done the wrong thing yet again . |
| 20 | Giggling like a child , rueful self-mockery etched on every line of her face , she applauded when a shout went up , joined in the disappointed groans when it proved a false alarm , commiserated with a rather determined little girl who had wandered into her own area of search and who thought she should have found one by now , and , thoroughly amused , by herself as much as by others , she whole-heartedly entered into the spirit of the thing . |
| 21 | Holding the tiny china figure in her hand , oblivious of the rain sleeting down , she grinned — and then caught sight of the little girl who had been so determined to find one . |
| 22 | She had been a rosy , stocky little girl who had stared at him with a bright , vacant face , her finger in her mouth . |
| 23 | So she watched , and listened , and fell a little further , and when his bleep went she went back with him to the department and they worked side by side , communicating with a gesture or a word almost in silence , each anticipating the other 's needs as they dealt with a little girl who had fallen out of a tree and broken both arms and one leg . |
| 24 | Lt Tim Kelly , 45 , a specialist in mobile air operations , said : ‘ I looked for a little girl who had been injured by shrapnel so I could have her winched aboard . |
| 25 | He was quite near , jostling among the spectators , and I had my first close look at the wild-eyed little goblin who had plagued me . |
| 26 | He tried to keep his eyes off the little man who had emerged from the ship . |
| 27 | He had two more contests in the autumn , losing both , by which time the little man who had so recently been Scotland 's pride was an alcoholic . |
| 28 | They both looked up to see a short , wiry little man who had been table-hopping beaming down at them . |
| 29 | Our guide was a dour-faced , taciturn , little man who had as much chatter and wit as a dumb-struck oaf though he knew the bridle paths and trackways of Leicestershire like the back of his hand . |
| 30 | For a second Sara looked blankly at him and then she suddenly remembered the little man who had called to see Matthew the day Fairfax had been there . |