Example sentences of "a little man " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saluted a little man in tight trousers and a yachting cap , standing by a boat pulled up on the bank . |
| 2 | In a famous Victorian poem , the fly was depicted as a little man with ‘ rainbows on his wings , a black and brown gown laced around his waist ’ . |
| 3 | He knocked boldly on the door of this house , and there was a rustling , and creaking , and the door opened a tiny crack , and there stood a little man , with a face as grey as morning ashes , and a long woolly beard the same colour . |
| 4 | He wanted to make a person people would love — a little man of courage and kindness , a ‘ gent ’ down on his luck — and the character became loved all over the world , as well as making all the world laugh . |
| 5 | I stepped back to avoid the overpowering closeness of his face and a little man on the inner circle of the crowd startled me with a friendly smile , but I could not find him again when I looked for him . |
| 6 | Towards the end of the third hour , a little man at the back of the great hall , a faithful apparatchik from the area of the Caspian Sea , was unable to contain himself at the unanticipated exposition of the enormities of Stalin . |
| 7 | A little man called Maurice Tarn was the auctioneer , and the sale was held in the fields alongside the Strathmore Arms . |
| 8 | Less honestly , there are some booksellers who have a little man round the corner who will always oblige with a ‘ contemporary ’ painting on the fore-edge of an 18th or early 19th century book . |
| 9 | The belt and sandals were fashionably ethnic — the sort of accessories that were made of buffalo hide by a little man in Kabul . |
| 10 | ‘ It is n't always , ’ Ginny said , wondering what on earth ( or in heaven ) was making her talk like this to a little man whom she 'd met only once before ; she hoped it would n't put him off her . |
| 11 | ( 'They said to me in the shop , ’ she 'd said to Anna , ‘ they said did I want the one with a little man on or not . |
| 12 | George Emmett , a little man with a reputation as a martinet ( he wold make the young pros shudder ) , was captain during Rochford 's last three years . |
| 13 | Richard Cory was a little man with wiry hair . |
| 14 | As it came nearer she saw that it was a little man in his mid-forties . |
| 15 | Riccio was a little man and he was not tall or beautiful or strong . |
| 16 | There was a little man and his name was Henry Ford , |
| 17 | Nobody had ever seen a baby before , and when the mother saw his little body and his little feet and hands , and his little cunning face , she thought ‘ why he just looks like a little man . ’ |
| 18 | He attributes this to the ‘ I know a little man ’ syndrome , but one gets the feeling that he is a little weary of being other people 's secret . |
| 19 | A little man , faced with a much larger adversary , can compensate for his opponent 's longer arm reach by using his legs as defensive weapons . |
| 20 | After an interval he heard someone coming downstairs , bolts were drawn and the door was opened by a little man with freckles and vestiges of red hair . |
| 21 | With the awards season upon them , J Walter Thompson were being showered with strange-looking trophies in perspex and metal alloy , and were forced to get a little man in to build them more shelves . |
| 22 | An elderly man with a white pointed beard was being shepherded into a chauffeur-driven car by the short rough-haired woman in a thick tweed suit , who had been at Rupert 's house that evening in the autumn ; a little man carrying two heavy-looking suitcases was hurrying away as if to catch a train ; a group of younger men and women was standing on the pavement , talking and laughing . |
| 23 | Acia is a little man with merry eyes who taught in different parts of Ethiopia until 1980 . |
| 24 | The realisation must be forced on the ’ big man ’ that , in reality , he is a little man . |
| 25 | it was nothing for you to have the er sole of your sh shoe flapping off and having to wear 'em till the p there was a little man that used to mend the shoes in Hirael there and you 'd go to him and he 'd put a couple of nails , never charge you for it you know . |
| 26 | There was a little man , |
| 27 | ‘ He 's only a little man , ’ said Georgiades , eyeing the glass again . |
| 28 | Caroline and Nicolo stood inside the Pantheon with their guide , a little man with a pedantic style and a phenomenal level of endurance . |
| 29 | A little man , ‘ looking like a smart French doctor ’ , he was searching for hidden treasure . |
| 30 | A little man turned up Friday afternoon , after they got home you know how we 're very susceptible to these market research types ? |