Example sentences of "a small boy " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small boy in pyjamas put down the basket he was weaving and looked at the face for a second or two , then turned back to his basket . |
| 2 | ‘ He liberated us from the Turks and fought for our independence , ’ said a small boy who waited at the quayside amid a jostling crowd of former monarchs , visiting Serbian bishops and television crews . |
| 3 | The visual inspiration for the book was the famous advert for Start-rite shoes , showing a small boy and girl walking off down a tree-lined avenue — an innocent image if ever there was one . |
| 4 | I feel that their movement follows the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi which has deeply inspired me ever since I was a small boy . |
| 5 | There was a surrealist episode involved a gnarled coach , an attractive young woman who was trying to be a hooker ( rugby variety ) and a small boy who wanted to be a scrum-half . |
| 6 | But it would be a miracle if a small boy felt rapport with the headmaster of a public school . |
| 7 | ( At this point there is a disturbance at the back , while a small boy who shouted out ‘ Why ? ’ is bundled into the street . ) |
| 8 | In the event , they entrusted Alexander Mackendrick with a colourful story , Sammy Going South ( 1963 , A Boy Ten Feet Tall in US ) , about the journey of a small boy , orphaned by an air-raid on his Port Said home , who crosses Africa on his own to find relatives in the south . |
| 9 | Recommended as best of the classy kids ' shows : The Red Balloon , Albert Lamorisse 's Fifties French fable of a small boy and his big red friend , adapted and stylishly staged by Anthony Clark at Contact Theatre in Manchester for primary school age . |
| 10 | I tell them that I have the heart of a small boy and I keep it in a jar on my desk ’ |
| 11 | It was an eerie place , full of strange sounds and dank smells and things too frightful for a small boy to contemplate . |
| 12 | As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead . |
| 13 | Mr Rafter looked over my shoulder while I drew a request item for a small boy — a picture of a witch jumping over a bonfire . |
| 14 | So , a small boy could speak of ‘ our goats ’ or ‘ our Mercedes truck ’ , even on occasion , and with startling initial effect , ‘ my Mercedes truck ’ : vis-à-vis outsiders , a household was an undifferentiated unit . |
| 15 | His outbursts of bilious misogyny are about as shocking as a small boy shouting ‘ Bum ! ’ |
| 16 | One imagines him , when a small boy repeatedly refusing to leave the crease when found LBW . |
| 17 | SIR — Your agricultural correspondent 's report on the goats of Snowdonia and their origins ( April 2 ) is less exciting than the folklore related to me as a small boy by a Welsh shepherd . |
| 18 | A Strange and Sublime Address by Amit Chaudhuri ( Minerva , £4.99 ) — This languid novella paints an enchanting portrait of a prosperous Calcutta family as seen through the eyes of a small boy . |
| 19 | In The Doctor ( 12 ) , young Charlie Korsmo is cast again as a small boy ignored by his father . |
| 20 | People have been telling me that ever since I was a small boy . ’ |
| 21 | For example , a small boy was seen once by an educational psychologist at his parents ' request on a problem of which hand he should write with . |
| 22 | When the trial opened , Mrs Dyer was charged with the murder of little Edith Marmon , one of the only two bodies to be identified , the other being that of a small boy named Simonds . |
| 23 | A small boy pulls out a piece of bread , rips off a chew and puts the bread safely back in his pocket . |
| 24 | I edged my way along clutching the banking , till a young man in a bright red T-shirt and a small boy with a grey sack , who I had seen skipping up the path earlier , forced me to adopt a more dignified , upright position . |
| 25 | A small boy catches up with me . |
| 26 | A small boy rounds up chickens with a stick twice as long as himself . |
| 27 | As a small boy , growing up in Liverpool , I stood at the Pier Head and marvelled at the huge Atlantic liners berthed at the world 's largest floating landing-stage . |
| 28 | 42 Bust of a small boy , an initiate in the cult of the Egyptian god Serapis. 2nd century AD . |
| 29 | Led by a small boy in shorts and singlet and over-large wellingtons , a herd of cows was coming in from the fields . |
| 30 | In the porch of a wooden shack a small boy dangled a land crab on the end of a makeshift fishing rod ; it clawed the air , defensive and gaudy . |