Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lucenzo ruthlessly hurried the shaken Meredith through a small door , to the sound of indulgent ribaldry , and drew her into a small salotto . |
| 4 | A legacy from a great-aunt had bought their house and provided her with a small income . |
| 5 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
| 6 | ‘ And for my own , ’ she told him with a small smile . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Here Ashley designed her tiles , painted and fired them in a small kiln . |
| 11 | She picked up her discarded clothes and threw them into a small bureau , scratched and marked by years of neglect . |
| 12 | She faced him like a small fury , hands on slender hips , breasts heaving with every laboured breath . |
| 13 | ‘ Is all well ? ’ he asked when she joined him at a small table in a corner of the crowded bar . |
| 14 | Alyssia blew some of the flyaway blonde strands away from her face and followed them to a small table at the back of the café , hoping that she would not have to endure half an hour of French conversation while she sat on the sidelines , wondering whether what they were discussing was really as animated and interesting as it appeared . |
| 15 | I followed him into a small room beside the kitchen . |
| 16 | I followed him into a small room . |
| 17 | The word escaped her in a small explosion of sound . |
| 18 | He threatened her with a small knife and assaulted her . |
| 19 | He held her arm lightly just below the cobalt blue cape sleeve , and steered her through a small group of women who had chosen to prolong their discourse by the door . |
| 20 | I led her to a small shelter in the Palace side of the Park . |
| 21 | Kathleen Claar , custodian of the Last Indian Raid Museum in Oberlin , Kansas , took him to a small cemetery to show him the grave of her husband and of Rick Read , the last man lynched in the state . |
| 22 | She took him into a small office with a window overlooking the harbour . |
| 23 | Nick took her to a small restaurant a few miles outside Cambridge , where they both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened . |
| 24 | He took her to a small farmhouse , and hid her in the bam . |
| 25 | After climbing to the top of the largest crater , the boat took us to a small bay on Palea Kameni where you can swim to the hot springs and delve into the orange mud of the sea bed , supposedly wonderful for your skin ! |
| 26 | There were three soldiers for every nun ; they tied our hands and took us to a small room , two soldiers pushing each nun . |
| 27 | Beggars ca n't be choosers though , he thought philosophically as he got up , removed the boiling kettle from the gas ring and emptied it into a small china teapot . |
| 28 | In 1902 , after the Hall had stood empty for some years , Lord Halifax lent it to a small community of Church of England Benedictines under Abbot Aelred Carlyle , the subject of a book Abbot Extraordinary . |
| 29 | When I put her in a small paddock while I muck out , she licks the soil for about ten minutes . |
| 30 | Well if you did it with a small brush ? |