Sentence examples for little sweep from inspiring English sources

A single puts Pietersen on strike and he raises his 15th Test hundred with a dapper little sweep to fine leg.

I resolved to make a little sweep into the park to see if I was deluded or about to get had.

In one little sweep of my eye across a distance of about 12 yards, I was able to assemble the above constellation in some ghoulish, grafted menagerie of fame, the lot of them stacked up in phone banks like really well-groomed battery hens.

Most heroically of all, and with a commitment perhaps matched only by Leonard Bernstein, Britten was determined to make music more accessible to children –  opening their eyes and ears to the joys of classical music-making in works such as The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, The Little Sweep, and Noye's Fludde.

Of the remaining operas, The Rape of Lucretia (1946), Albert Herring (1947), The Little Sweep (1949) and The Turn of the Screw (1954) were written for small opera companies.

Britten also used this fusion of professional with amateur forces in The Little Sweep (1949), which forms the second part of his entertainment for children, Let's Make an Opera, that he devised with Crozier.

The recent little sweep-in of women means theatre is changing.

"The last I saw of him", he wrote, "was running across the open downs with his net unfurled...making curious little sweeps and lunges as he pursued his prey".Mr Newby was often asked why he loved to travel.

Images of shell-shocked eyes in mud-caked faces are an instant passport to that mythological time of little sweeps and coal miners, hard men, "ouvriers de la pedale" escaping grinding poverty for a life on two wheels.

Below: Reiniger's "The Little Chimney Sweep," from 1954.

The little chimney sweep in The Water-Babies, the death of Black Beauty's great love Ginger and even Peter Rabbit's father's fate in a pie leave powerful impressions on the minds of those who encounter them.