Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a small [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they are purchased through a large department store , the shop will send an expert to fix them for a small extra charge . |
| 2 | We followed a stream up Salubrious Passage before squeezing ourselves through a small twisting passage to bring us back above ground . |
| 3 | Being expensive to maintain and run , they have been sold off and the incumbent now often finds himself in a small modern house , undoubtedly warmer and more convenient , but usually without character and , tellingly , without social status . |
| 4 | An archway covered with more Rosa ‘ Dorothy Perkins ’ leads you to a small back garden with another island bed as its main feature , There is yet more pink phlox and annual lavatera , along with the variegated phlox ‘ Norah Leigh ’ , hostas , the dwarf gentian-blue Delphinium tatsienense and Geranium ‘ Winscombe ’ , which is one of the pink varieties that seems to flower all summer long . |
| 5 | Then I want you to follow instructions I will give you to a small derelict hut , where you will find a very sick man , who needs looking after … ’ |
| 6 | She led them onto a small covered terrace running the full width of the house . |
| 7 | She ushered them into a small cluttered room where a middle-aged woman in a navy dress sat behind a littered desk . |
| 8 | If so , chop through them with a small cold chisel . |
| 9 | For example , whereas land rights were inherited through the mother in the matrilineal systems a father could leave economic trees to his sons , thereby providing them with a small independent base . |
| 10 | She makes her own glazes from vegetable ash and fires them in a small wood-burning kiln we built together . ’ |
| 11 | A cheerful , freckled young woman showed me to a small seedy room and I began to unpack . |
| 12 | You 'll find him behind a small wooden counter in the left-hand corner of the bar . |
| 13 | Bruno stayed standing , watching him with a small fixed smile . |
| 14 | ‘ I made this for you , Anna , ’ he had said , presenting her with a small wooden doll . |
| 15 | She found him in a small single room that was obviously intended to be his dressing-room or study , furnished with a single bed , rows of built-in cupboards , and under the window a desk and chair . |
| 16 | It had taken the mice a long time to explore , they had made short excited scurrying runs across the floor , then back to the hutch , nervous , unsure , limiting themselves to a small prescribed space , only later stepping out of it , extending their freedom . |