Example sentences of "[vb past] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | They contributed a small sum every week to buy the plants , build the pond and buy a lawn mower and two church benches , and they made their collective garden themselves . |
| 2 | Despite chest trouble and the serious illness of his mother , he was , as the letter provided a small piece of evidence , much happier about his own work . |
| 3 | Finally , on turning a corner , they entered a small area in which a large slab of stone stood beside a table covered in smaller fragments . |
| 4 | At the top of the hill the bridle-path entered a small copse . |
| 5 | According to an Army communiqué Salvadorean " subversives " ( i.e. guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front — Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) had on May 27 , 1989 , entered a small Honduran town in the border area but had been forced back to El Salvador by a patrol ; Salvadorean aircraft and a helicopter gunship had fired into Honduran territory in pursuit of the rebels ; and a Salvadorean aircraft had flown over Honduran territory on May 29 . |
| 6 | I drew a small diagram of the interlocking male and female principles in their embracing circle . |
| 7 | When he had made his mark , she drew a small packet of fragrant sweets called cachous from her cuff and gave him one . |
| 8 | They drew a small crowd of bystanders who , finding they were English , began to mutter and curse . |
| 9 | As Kevin Brown and his agent slithered off the rim of the high ground and into the woodland , he drew a small radio from his pocket and spoke quietly and urgently for several seconds . |
| 10 | After consultation with the ward staff of the hospital where he was , and with the speech therapist , I drew a small house , his , and a large building , an old peoples ' home , and asked him to point to where he wanted to go . |
| 11 | Crowfield is half-way up the south-eastern edge of Wattisham 's north-easterly ‘ panhandle ’ , so I drew a small circle at the appropriate point and joined it and Gransden with a straight line . |
| 12 | From a pocket he drew a small cylindrical probe , and he stalked slowly around the room with it , pointing it at every piece of furniture and ornamentation with a sensitive ear tuned to the probe 's faint hum . |
| 13 | Judging himself to be deep enough within the maze of gas drums , he drew a small waxy brick from inside his jacket . |
| 14 | Out of one of them he drew a small notebook , in which he proceeded to write . |
| 15 | He designed a small single-seat monoplane which could be used for little but fun flying and possibly racing . |
| 16 | It was seamed at the back , and running his fingertips the length of the seam he encountered a small patch halfway down that was sticky and stiffening , and withdrew them smeared with drying blood . |
| 17 | By the end of the war , Bloomsbury House maintained a small department of welfare workers whose job it was to care for the chronically ill . |
| 18 | The English government maintained a small military force in the islands but it was not large enough to guarantee the English population against slave revolt or foreign invasion , and the settlers had to make an effort on their own account as well . |
| 19 | When Taylor acquired his Coniston lease it excluded a small sett previously granted to one Mathew Spedding . |
| 20 | They too were a family of skilled craftsmen and , like so many of the first two generations of South Wales industrial settlers , retained a small interest in country matters , raising pigs and often keeping a pony or two on the outskirts of their villages . |
| 21 | After leaving the Institute , where he retained a small laboratory which he visited at weekends , Butler 's administrative duties were so heavy that he had little time for mycological research . |
| 22 | [ Name ] found a small driveway in front of some shops and we parked there , which allowed us to speed off in either direction after the vehicle , should it appear . |
| 23 | I found a small but perfectly-formed hailstone on my knee , which must have got in through the air vent . |
| 24 | When we reached this area we found a small stream passing under a bridge marked Puente Chinoluiz . |
| 25 | He did not see the young lady but found a small sculptured image of Our Lady . |
| 26 | After this last furlough we paid a last sad visit to the school and found a small girl crying her heart out . |
| 27 | We found a small tendency for an earlier deterioration in cognitive function , with loss of speed and accuracy of the four choice reaction during the controlled hypoglycaemia induced by porcine insulin but this did not achieve significance . |
| 28 | Meanwhile Giovanna 's immense husband had waddled off to a patch of rough grass in which he hunted until he found a small metal square . |
| 29 | The study found a small number of parts per billion of isopropyl methylphosphonic acid ( iPMPA ) in soil from bomb craters in the village of Birjinni in northern Iraq near the Turkish border . |
| 30 | Katherine found a small restaurant with a soda fountain . |