Example sentences of "go [prep] the [adj] little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boxes inside the vault looked fascinating and she badly wanted to know what lay inside box number forty-seven , but not if it meant going into the sinister little room on her own . |
| 2 | Yes , it was rather apt , and going into the cold little room where the piano stood , I played it over — stiffly , and with many mistakes — the words , nevertheless , bringing their own gloomy comfort . |
| 3 | it goes under the nice little saying tell them what you 're going to tell them then tell them and then tell them what you 've told them . |
| 4 | I like all this and that bit but she has er , you end up to go on the dirty little foxes and you get on and there 's so , runny nosed yobbo kid about twelve , gets on |
| 5 | As I went through the drab little hall , I wondered whether there was an overseas branch of the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist and , if so , whether it contained a man called Danzig . |
| 6 | Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties . |