Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] a small [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy Neilson , a prominent Wear Valley councillor until last May 's Christopherian coup , was approached the other day by someone seeking to set up a small business in Sunderland . |
| 2 | I would like to point out a small correction for your readers . |
| 3 | Stockton firemen had to use breathing apparatus to put out a small fire in an extractor fan in the women 's toilet of the Waterfront pub , Church Road . |
| 4 | Since two different groups of headlines appear in E [ the last sheet but three ] it is obvious that an interruption occurred while E was printing ; and it appears probable that it came about because the printer abruptly decided to run off a small number of complete copies of the book for sale while the opera was being presented and then to finish the entire edition at leisure . |
| 5 | He intended to build up a small collection of workmen 's clothes , a Brabant smock , a fisherman 's outfit of yellow oilskin and a sou'wester , a grey linen suit of the sort worn by miners , straw hat , wooden clogs , so that he could dress his models in them . |
| 6 | It is our practice to send out a small booklet of self-assessment questionnaires to any client referred to the department with anxiety related problems . |
| 7 | In Sutton , the wires came out into the High Street and ran a short distance to the right to run round a small green at Bushey Road . |
| 8 | As the 1980s rolled on and the earlier uncertainties about choosing the right task and the right organism receded , consensus began to develop around a small number of such models , with several different groups of researchers each arguing the case for their own new versions of god 's organism . |
| 9 | He has a scheme to take over a small number of simple churches and adapt them as retreats . |
| 10 | Explosives were therefore concentrated on one pier , while the balance were used to blow up a small bridge over the Ginestra , a tributary of the Tragino , over which repair traffic would have to come . |
| 11 | The answer is to cut out a small square of plasterboard ( or to cut through the laths in the same way ) , cut a narrow notch in the nogging to allow the cable through , and then replace the plasterboard , nailing it in place either side of the notch , and making good with filler . |