Example sentences of "she [verb] a small [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made a small motion of her head , then looked down . |
| 2 | Startled by his sudden , critical observation , she made a small gesture of dismissal . |
| 3 | She said nothing , but gazed at him with wide , terrified eyes , then almost involuntarily she made a small gesture with her hands to ward him off and he , taking it as a token of reciprocal feeling , stepped forward and took her in his arms . |
| 4 | She built a small fire in the grate , just for the comfort , then went into the kitchen . |
| 5 | She has a small part in a new Christopher Columbus movie , due out in February , and a lead role as a brewer 's daughter with ambitions in Monty Python man Eric Idle 's new film comedy Splitting Heirs . |
| 6 | After about 9 days at Gary and Kaye 's we moved to Caroline Lock 's ; she has a small flat under the house , and it happened to be vacant for a week . |
| 7 | When she arrived back , a little late and with only about forty minutes before she should go down to dinner , she found a small packet on her dressing-table . |
| 8 | When he had made his mark , she drew a small packet of fragrant sweets called cachous from her cuff and gave him one . |
| 9 | She affected a small frown of concentration . |
| 10 | The small of her back began to feel warm as she imagined a small bead of laser light centred there , cueing a flamer , or a needler , or a screamer , or anything nasty and permanent . |
| 11 | On the lower end of this , she constructs a small group of downward-facing cells in each of which she lays an egg . |
| 12 | And she refused to go another step until his arm was properly cared for , Isabel vowed , as she dug a small hole in the top of the misshapen lump with her thumbnail . |
| 13 | At eighteen she opened a small school in Kentish Town with her mother , who was committed to Pestalozzi 's reforming ideas . |
| 14 | In 1877 she opened a small chapel in her house in Cottenham Park . |
| 15 | She opened a small drawer in the pretty rosewood table beside her chair , dropped the trinket into it , then closed it with a kind of finality . |
| 16 | No sooner had she crossed a small bridge near the farm than the storm resumed with even greater intensity . |
| 17 | He did not answer but just before she heard his bedroom door close she would swear that she heard a small chortle of laughter — as if her dry afterthought of a good morning had amused him . |
| 18 | And she fished a small parcel from her pocket , and showed Sally-Anne her treasure just as the horse bus finally groaned up — or neighed up , thought Sally-Anne irreverently . |
| 19 | He watched her as she took a small mouthful of the delicious moist sponge . |
| 20 | Before she got out , she took a small bottle of Gordon 's gin from her huge red plastic handbag and sprinkled most of it over her neckline and cleavage . |
| 21 | She was not quite tall enough to reach things around the kitchen , but she kept a small box in the outhouse which she brought in and stood on in order to get whatever she wanted . |
| 22 | She felt a small warmth of pride kindle in her . |
| 23 | In spite of herself , she felt a small flicker of alarm . |
| 24 | When the three girls arrived she was surprised to find that in spite of their sophistication they were not much older than she was and as she watched them glide out in the first selection of fashions she felt a small prickle of excitement . |
| 25 | As she turned away , she felt a small surge of triumph . |
| 26 | She felt a small tug in the maternal breast which she knew she must resist . |
| 27 | She slipped a small bag off her shoulder and , leaving it by the wall , sat a little way off . |
| 28 | Trustingly she slipped a small hand into one of his , and she would have gone with him anywhere , but he detached her fingers after giving them a reassuring squeeze . |
| 29 | She carried a small basket in her hand containing food for her frugal evening meal , although the rancid smells around her were strong enough to diminish any desire to eat — she had not yet grown sufficiently accustomed to them to ignore them . |
| 30 | Instead , she set to stubbornly work her way through in alphabetical order , so that before long she had a small pile of pink order slips in front of her . |