Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] a small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then scratchmen Scott and Monaghan , along with Downey ( Clann Eireann ) , broke clear and opened a small gap . |
| 2 | So I cut out a straight section of wire coat hanger , heated one end until it was cherry red , hammered it flat , then , when it cooled , filed the edges smooth and drilled a small hole in it . |
| 3 | Liz Roberts graduated from Durham University with a degree in Chinese and joined a small tours company specialising in holidays to China . |
| 4 | She wished suddenly that she were someone totally different , that she were much smaller and had a small face and tiny feet like Nan had . |
| 5 | I had the attributes of a boy , in that I was flat-chested , hipless and had a small bottom . |
| 6 | TriQuint had been making the chips designed by Gazelle 's researchers , and its name was retained by the new company , which last year had a turnover of about $30 million and showed a small profit . |
| 7 | SIR — A 37-year-old man , who had been on total parenteral nutrition for 2½ years after excision of his small bowel for a mesenteric desmoid tumour , found this regimen unacceptable and sought a small bowel allograft . |