Example sentences of "make small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A roughly made small felt dog which I do n't recognise , it looks as though a child has made it . |
| 2 | Three wells were drilled in the area in the 1980's — all of which made small gas discoveries — although two are excluded from this award . |
| 3 | We made small talk to everyone we knew and I drank rather a lot of gin and ginger ale . |
| 4 | Beginning in the 1860s , Degas made small wax statuettes of horses and female figures , keeping them in his studio and occasionally using them as models for his two-dimensional work . |
| 5 | Normally her husband would make himself comfortable beside the fire , sometimes holding their child in his arms , and make small talk as she peeled the potatoes and washed the greens , but tonight Carrie knew it would be different . |
| 6 | And then for half an hour they make small talk . |
| 7 | It 's very important to get this strip perfectly straight , either by accurate measurement against the stairs or by using a string line and making small pencil marks every half-metre to align the bottom edge — again , that second pair of hands can come in very useful . |
| 8 | This has mainly involved checking off names , shaking hands , sorting out cups of tea , making small talk and carefully noting down phone numbers . |
| 9 | So cold and unfeeling ; Eileen could n't have imagined anyone behaving in her own son 's home as if she were a stranger , making small talk and occasionally bestowing a few words on her daughter-in-law . |
| 10 | One moment she was cleaning floors for a living , the next receiving a pair of brass candlesticks from the King and Queen of Sweden or making small talk with the President of Somewhere or Other . |
| 11 | How could he be making small talk when their bodies were pressed together like this ? |
| 12 | I was just making small talk and some of it was the most petty talk that I 've ever heard ! |
| 13 | Making small talk with Georg was not easy . |
| 14 | The book falls into four sections : active viewing ; making your own videos ; making small group videos , and videoing your textbook . |
| 15 | The PLAYER stands with huge , terrible eyes , clutches at the wound as the blade withdraws : he makes small weeping sounds and falls to his knees , and then right down : While he is dying , GUIL , nervous , high , almost hysterical , wheels on the TRAGEDIANS ) If we have a destiny , then so had he — and if this is ours , then that was his — and if there are no explanation for us , then let there be none for him ( The TRAGEDIANS watch the PLAYER die : they watch with some interest . |
| 16 | The sound makes small silverfish run down the back of my neck . |
| 17 | This £15,000 investment makes small carpet samples about eighteen inches square for use by Architects and Specifiers when they ‘ approve ’ a design specially created for their clients . |
| 18 | It was so pitifully easy for the customers : the temptation so hard to resist , to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter , a packet of tea from the shelf , even a bag of flour , as my aunt came from behind the counter , passed through to the kitchen , down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask , or paraffin from the tank ( its pump rattling up-down , up-down ) , or across the yard for corn or toppings , or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing ; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all . |
| 19 | I once saw a woman whose job it was to make small bar magnets from steel blanks about two inches long . |
| 20 | He tried to make small talk but got no replies . |
| 21 | It was n't like Jake to make small talk , she was thinking . |
| 22 | She snatched at the chance to make small talk while she got her emotions strictly under control again . |