Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led them down a small corridor , paused by a door , took out a huge bunch of keys , slowly , and deliberately , unlocked the door , and then , with a dramatic , indeed melodramatic , flourish , flung it open . |
| 2 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 3 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 4 | Lucenzo ruthlessly hurried the shaken Meredith through a small door , to the sound of indulgent ribaldry , and drew her into a small salotto . |
| 5 | A legacy from a great-aunt had bought their house and provided her with a small income . |
| 6 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 7 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
| 8 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |
| 9 | However , their architecture — a connectionist network — limits them to a small vocabulary of 211 words . |
| 10 | Mix them with a small amount of water until the colour is even and the paint is of a smooth , creamy consistency . |
| 11 | If you find any , put them in a small box or jar to hatch out . |
| 12 | They come out of lectures and then they round them up and put them in a small group , you know . |
| 13 | She picked a mixed posy of flowers and put them in the small basket she was carrying , and then wandered down through the orchard . |
| 14 | ‘ And for my own , ’ she told him with a small smile . |
| 15 | Jill nodded , standing aside to let Lindsey precede her into the small side ward . |
| 16 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 17 | Her limbs were graceful , her whole body proportioned like that of a young goddess ; as for her breasts , an infatuated young man who had seen her in a small part at Robert 's Shield Theatre wrote her a letter quoting the Song of Solomon at length : Asshe threatened to horsewhip him . |
| 18 | The château was empty , almost derelict , and they have turned it into a small hotel and restaurant . |
| 19 | yeah put it in the small pile |
| 20 | ‘ I have moved it to a small paddock beyond the castle walls . ’ |
| 21 | The Terrier man then kills it with a small pistol . |
| 22 | Tory plans to sell it for a small shopping mall were scuppered when Labour seized control last year . |
| 23 | I think if you got maybe a twenty five year old who came to your school for a week and got you in a small group and talked about it , it would be great on a one to one basis . |
| 24 | Tissues respond to the presence of tubercle bacilli by forming a fibrous wall round the organisms and encasing them in the small nodules called tubercles . |
| 25 | If you want to impress your friends , you can nonchalantly steer them towards the small plaque on the side of the bonnet . |
| 26 | Here Ashley designed her tiles , painted and fired them in a small kiln . |
| 27 | You can keep them in a small plastic box until then . |
| 28 | Transfer them to a small tube or box containing a few leaves from the same plant and take them home . |
| 29 | She picked up her discarded clothes and threw them into a small bureau , scratched and marked by years of neglect . |
| 30 | She faced him like a small fury , hands on slender hips , breasts heaving with every laboured breath . |