1.   At a quarter to four by the little travelling clock at his bedside he got out of bed and went to the window.

2.   Peering at the little bedside clock, she groaned.

3.   There will be a little clock in the lower right hand corner that will tick down.

4.   Give him a little plastic clock.

5.   And so my little clock and I have been known to repair to a sanctum sanctorum at the Great Metropolitan Newspaper, and take a ... Claudio.

6.   A little clock in the corner flashes occasionally, ticking down the minutes.

7.   He has a bed, provisions, fire locater, map, binoculars, photographs of his family and a little clock to count the hours.

8.   So yes, we should worry about all the little clocks, but there is obviously a big clock ticking somewhere too.