Example sentences of "little [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The secret of this is to open the end of the matchbox and , when closing it , pinch a little skin in between the base and the outside . |
| 2 | Fred had once told Lorton that he reckoned to make his beer money from playing pool , and perhaps a little bit over for the dogs . |
| 3 | So he went back up onto the main road and very little further on , in fact , he in fact found a village and spent the night at the hostelry and he said to the man in the hostelry you know , he that he 'd been lost and that a a little bit back on the road he 'd seen this big house all alight and he had erm , you know , gone in the drive and tried to get get a room there but could n't make anybody hear and the erm the inn keeper said , no he said er you would n't make anyone hear there , he said and if you go back there tomorrow the house wo n't be there ! |
| 4 | One strange thing about her books is that they nearly all tend to be set a little bit back in the past , so that the position of the women that she is describing and the society in which she is describing them is n't quite what 's actually going on a the time she 's writing . |
| 5 | a little bit down into the . |
| 6 | I mean I 've got some indications in er a couple of books I 've got in the car , er but erm again I 've not been asked that question you know , what 's the bullion return , things like that , it 's , it 's a little bit out of the ordinary , but you can find the figures . |
| 7 | areas of the function , where things that are a little bit out of the ordinary start happening . |
| 8 | Yes cos we do a little bit out of the class instead . |
| 9 | I 've got the use of a little field out by the Town Dairy . |
| 10 | The little B&B down by the harbour was far more in keeping with the thread of the sea that had kept with me the whole day 's travel from west to east coast Scotland . |
| 11 | Words from the letters banged about in Thérèse 's head , just above her eyebrows she pictured them , as she dripped melted butter from the little saucepan on to the yellow puddle of egg yolks . |
| 12 | Incidentally , direct a little light down behind the speaker : it fills the space behind him and makes him more three-dimensional . |
| 13 | Edouard lifted the little boy up into the saddle of one of the older horses . |
| 14 | He beached the boat and lifted the little boy on to the shore . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh Maisie , ’ thought Henry , ‘ you who are , even now , longing to get your fat little feet out of the ballet pumps that you will never wear gracefully , soon we will be free of her . |
| 16 | Quite glad to abandon what was turning out to be a very wet hunt , she walked with the little girl back to the hotel . |
| 17 | Conscious of the straining ears of the rest of the company , Paul Lexington led the little group out into the corridor . |
| 18 | When David led the little group out onto the street , where he quickly hailed a Hansom cab , Cissie had linked arms with Beth , and was walking tall and proud like a ‘ young lady ’ should . |
| 19 | The sergeant thought he should offer his boss some support in her battle to prise a little truth out of the woman they were interviewing . |
| 20 | He had seen that look on the faces of mother ducks when they took their little flock down to the river for the first time . |
| 21 | But going after rabbits , especially the cunning little bastards out on the Grounds , you need all the help you can get . |
| 22 | Sweat broke out on his face and ran in little rivulets down into the blue stubble . |
| 23 | ‘ Then what happens is , we take him for a little ride out to the Crumbles . ’ |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I ca n't see the justification for leaving a man with a little baby out in the street . ’ |
| 25 | Yeah but , I think if you straighten lines and mess around with them too much it leaves little bits in underneath the other one . |
| 26 | Our main goal is to bring a little sunshine in to the lives of all disabled people . |
| 27 | Both regions are famous for seafood , which we both love , and there appeared to be a reasonable number of airfields dotted about , ranging from little fields up in the mountains to Porto , one of Portugal 's only three Customs airports — the others are Lisbon and Faro . |
| 28 | He walked carefully to his seat , picked his little cup up from the floor and went to the room 's single window . |
| 29 | And I took that little book up to the union and showed it to the branch secretary and still I never got my bike or any compensation for it . |
| 30 | Mother told me that once when she had gone with them to chapel — and she was only a tot-she had just a little peep around at the rest of the congregation . |