Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Second World War , executive search in the US has developed from a small cottage industry into a $ multimillion , multinational business which has deeply penetrated American corporate life . |
| 2 | In the first instance , the Centre has worked with a small number of course leaders , helping to identify , through its own contacts , appropriate live projects . |
| 3 | The Ness Historical Society has focussed on a small group of six unemployed young people who have gone round the villages collecting tape recordings and photographs relating specifically to past modes of employment and to emigration . |
| 4 | In fact , ERPS has lived in a small corner of the works property since it took delivery of ex-Southern Railway 30828 4-6-0 the Maunsell development of the Urie S15 Class from Barry in March 1981 . |
| 5 | " All right then ? " he said , smiling again , his head a little on one side , a gesture he 'd had as a small boy . |
| 6 | She 'd started with a small ad in a contact magazine , and a box number to keep the entire business at arm 's length ; she could n't believe the number of replies that came in . |
| 7 | Spain would have been cowed without Wellington 's field force : Wellington could not have operated with a small army without the diversionary effects of Spanish resistance . |
| 8 | Stephen Glover could have taken either of two ‘ angles ’ : a bitchy , scandal-strewn insider 's account , which might have appealed to a small audience of fellow scribblers and media junkies ; or a description of what it takes to launch a high-profile business in the teeth of fierce competition , which might have interested those thousands of readers who do not drink at London 's Groucho Club . |
| 9 | But if they were taut , they would have acted as a small trampoline , bouncing the hammer up towards the string again . |
| 10 | Many urban tradesmen , especially those connected with the building industry , seem to have invested in a small way in housing for rent , but there can be little doubt that the special facilities in raising capital conferred by acts of parliament on turnpike trusts and canal companies enabled them to become the recipients of a flow of capital from sources which would not otherwise have been drawn so directly towards economic improvements . |
| 11 | In practice Mary seems to have ruled through a small group of office-holders , using the other councillors for service in the shires and for the provision of general political support . |
| 12 | The large extended family household in any case seems only to have existed for a small minority , if at all . |
| 13 | Our Pharmacist , Miss Alice Gilliatt , sister of the Royal gynaecologist , had heard of a small flat in Fulham . |
| 14 | Once , when they had gone on a nature walk , Eve had pointed to a small cottage and said that it was her house . |
| 15 | They had stopped on a small rise , at Bernice 's insistence , to compare stories and devise plans . |
| 16 | We 've heard of a small baby who chewed through a gift and swallowed a battery , and of a granny who bought one of those talking baby dolls for her favourite grandaughter , only to find that it had a vocabulary of four-letter words . |
| 17 | I had come across a small herd of Swayne 's hartebeeste near Awash Station , the only hartebeeste I saw during the journey . |
| 18 | Stephanie 's rosebud mouth had curved in a small pout . |
| 19 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 20 | But during the weekends I did my best to claim her attention , following her about from room to room as I had done as a small child , and chattering endlessly about life , literature and the events of the previous school-term . |
| 21 | The Salvation Army had grown from a small backstreet mission in the East End of London to an international organisation . |
| 22 | For a whole week now I had dreamed of a small child every night , and perhaps Bessie was right , as a message came from Gateshead . |
| 23 | They had not gone far , when they had stepped into a small clearing . |
| 24 | The ILP had shrunk to a small faction by 1940 , its only significance being that it was well represented in the Commons . |
| 25 | Downstairs , in the little stationery shop at the back which her father had started in a small way as a trial , and which had become so successful that sometimes he joked it financed everything else , was a safe full of cash . |
| 26 | She replied that she had lived in a small group of about 10 people : she indicated the number by holding up both hands with the fingers spread . |
| 27 | Led by a man named William Shorter , the gang had begun as a small group of poachers , their nickname derived from their dark clothing and blacked up faces for nocturnal raids in the forest . |
| 28 | Last week , after a concert , he had listened to a small group of airmen , seated at a table next to his , discussing her . |
| 29 | Maybe I have succeeded to a small extent , but there 's still plenty I want to know . |