Example sentences of "took [art] little " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this the man who took the little orphaned son of the brigand Dhoondiah Waugh into his household after he was found hiding on the battlefield amongst the baggage of his defeated father ? |
| 2 | But more often they took the little leafy lane which led from Thrush Green to Upper Pleshy , Nod and Nidden , the lane that threaded half a dozen or more sleepy thatched villages , like hoary old beads upon its winding string , before it emerged upon the broad highway which led to Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 3 | Jesus took the little girl by the hand and told her to get up . |
| 4 | He took the little boy to another room for an intimate examination , leaving the 19-year-old mother outside . |
| 5 | The General reached down and took the little bouquet . |
| 6 | In September 1 158 Henry travelled to Paris and then took the little girl back to Normandy with him . |
| 7 | Quickly , she took the little gold key from the table and hurried to the garden door . |
| 8 | The driver took the little engine and the two men looked at it silently , not speaking for several minutes . |
| 9 | My mother took the little girl into our family , and Elizabeth became the daughter that my mother had always wanted . |
| 10 | They took the little house two doors away from Ken and Rhoda ; her own to play with , to sweep and dust and arrange as she liked , and meals for two to cook at her discretion , and her father and grandmother just down the road so she had both a respite from them and could keep an eye on them , not too close but not too far . |
| 11 | I TOOK the little cinder that was the remains of the wasp and put it into a matchbox , wrapped in an old photograph of Eric with my father . |
| 12 | Then , carefully stifling her own personal feelings , she took the little girl by the hand . |
| 13 | Ashley nodded , and , as she went off into the kitchen , Vitor took the little boy to collect his present . |
| 14 | and I took every little last bit out . |
| 15 | I took a little time off in Rome to do some shopping . |
| 16 | It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer . |
| 17 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 18 | News concerning the development in style took a little time to percolate through to the country ; a sculptor carving a resurrection scene on a 1707 headstone outside the south door of Uffington church , Oxfordshire , continues to depict the gable-lidded coffin . |
| 19 | This took a little time during which I pondered uneasily on the possibility , however remote , of having to recognize the existence of additional progeny , and all that it would entail . |
| 20 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 21 | Dorothy had a lot of shopping to do and my daughter took a little time off school to take us around . ‘ |
| 22 | It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep . |
| 23 | It took a little time for employers to depersonalize personal computers . |
| 24 | Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume . |
| 25 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 26 | When she first joined the company , packing vitamins and herbal medicines three years ago , she took a little time to get used to the work . |
| 27 | After leaving the Navy , it took a little time to become used to a normal bed again , as the hammock had proved to be such an ideal sleeping arrangement . |
| 28 | It took a little time , but er , eventually he got it , and now I 'm delighted to say he 's one of the most organised managers on earth . |
| 29 | Film superstar Alan Rickman took a little time to settle comfortably into the stage mantle of Shakespeare 's much-wronged prince , as if the echo of his own voice was vying with King Hamlet 's exhortations to do the deed , but this soon gives way to a gentle yet powerful Hamlet . |
| 30 | Then she took a little tin brooch from her pocket . |