Example sentences of "[verb] the little " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met the little boy who believes that all the inhabitants of an Arab village should be exterminated . |
| 2 | " We can break our bones and heal ourselves straight away , " whispered the little bird . |
| 3 | At once , she picked up the gold key from the table , unlocked the little door into the garden , and then began to eat a piece of mushroom . |
| 4 | This inhibits the normal feeding response and the great predator opens its mouth , allowing the little fish in ( Figure 6 ) . |
| 5 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 6 | ‘ After we had prayed together in tears and heartbreak a few moments … 1 then dipped my finger in water and , as the priest to my own babe at such a moment , touching the little forehead in the sign of our redemption , said : ' ‘ I baptise thee Mary Salome , in the name of the Lord Jesus , of the Father and of the Holy Ghost . ' ’ |
| 7 | The aircraft swooped in to land , almost touching the little buildings of Kowloon . |
| 8 | He passed the little girl . |
| 9 | Instead , sensing a criticism — which this was not , Aunt Lilian was simply asking for information — she gave one of her loud laughs and said , well , she personally thought it was a good thing for a young married woman to cultivate the little niceties of life . |
| 10 | But we both agreed the little mite was the spitting image of the man . |
| 11 | For an instant Fox was going to hit the little idiot , but the impulse faded . |
| 12 | And Tara ( 6 ) , owned by Leslie Patton of Bangor , will be Sandy , the faithful dog who befriends the little orphan girl . |
| 13 | The Forestry Commission are making valiant efforts to re-create these old woodlands , and are trying to preserve the little that remains . |
| 14 | Faith had flown the little aircraft across the U.S. before , which means the Tri-Pacer has flown ( with some help over the Atlantic and Pacific ) around the world . |
| 15 | The recent rain made the little stream passable and the water was very swift , shallow and rocky . |
| 16 | The Thing made the little electronic noise which was the machine 's equivalent of a nome clearing his throat . |
| 17 | The Thing made the little clicking noise that was its equivalent of clearing its throat . |
| 18 | And then er the the the lace trade he he worked on , when women wore high collars , boned high collars and he made the little narrow edging lace about like that and it was goffered so it made a frill round the face . |
| 19 | On their first visit this Essex based company bring the little known story of Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst . |
| 20 | While Kāli fumbled , striking the flint against the steel , trying to produce a spark that was strong enough to light the little piece of cotton , they told me how pleased they were to see me working just like them . |
| 21 | Descartes himself , using the little mechanical and physiological knowledge available to him , went to great lengths in trying to account for this relationship . |
| 22 | He had watched them silently as they lowered the little bush into the prepared hole , with considerable argument as to how the roots should be spread . |
| 23 | I put my conversations with Lou and Brenda from my mind , at least for the time being , and had switched on the WP and was enjoying the little moans and buzzes of its warming up , when there was a mighty banging on the door and there stood Hugo . |
| 24 | Erm enough enough of slagging slagging the little shit I think |
| 25 | How clever of you to think of drawing the little pug ; I knew it at once . |
| 26 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 27 | At that time they say the Apaches were forever raiding the little pueblos and carrying off whatever they needed , clothes , weapons , some women and sometimes boys young enough to be brought up Apache-style . |
| 28 | She 'd flooded the picture , drowning the little people , and the waters of the lake lapped the edge of the canvas . |
| 29 | I really wanted to thank the little guy for saving my life , but I have a hard-bitten image to keep up . |
| 30 | It was hard for the Major to see the little procession that moved away from the Administration block towards the heart of the camp , but he fancied he could still make out one dark head amongst the hazing image of the retreating column . |