Example sentences of "[pers pn] with [art] small " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turner , Ministry 's heavily tattooed bone tech , was sitting next to me with a small sparrow 's skull placed next to his beer on the table . |
| 2 | They had provided me with a small team of assistants and advisers , and a more agreeable collection of people one could not have found . |
| 3 | For example , whereas land rights were inherited through the mother in the matrilineal systems a father could leave economic trees to his sons , thereby providing them with a small independent base . |
| 4 | Mix them with a small amount of water until the colour is even and the paint is of a smooth , creamy consistency . |
| 5 | If so , chop through them with a small cold chisel . |
| 6 | So I included lots of my old yoga positions in the routine and combined them with the small isometric movements for maximum impact on the muscles . |
| 7 | We decided to present him with a small token which he can take to his new life , and keep in memory of his bachelor days and the friends he has left behind . |
| 8 | Unfortunately when we went into the shop to buy his gift we met a couple of his ex-girlfriends who insisted on coming along to remind him of the girls he is leaving behind , and to present him with a small , but wonderfully-packaged gift , a token of our friendship . |
| 9 | Bruno stayed standing , watching him with a small fixed smile . |
| 10 | ‘ And for my own , ’ she told him with a small smile . |
| 11 | He cleared the breakfast things and left him with the small addressed postcard that he had been provided with to write a message on for his mother . |
| 12 | ‘ I made this for you , Anna , ’ he had said , presenting her with a small wooden doll . |
| 13 | A legacy from a great-aunt had bought their house and provided her with a small income . |
| 14 | He threatened her with a small knife and assaulted her . |
| 15 | WHATEVER the home unions committee may care to think , the team who performed with great distinction in Paris are Lions to a man — and if the powers-that-be will not grant them the honour with a large ‘ L ’ they can hardly begrudge it with a small one . |
| 16 | and fill it with a small amount of water . |
| 17 | Duncan took out his passport and handed it to the older man , who opened it to the relevant page and stamped it with a small stamper he had with him . |
| 18 | The Terrier man then kills it with a small pistol . |
| 19 | Well if you did it with a small brush ? |
| 20 | Do it with a small brush . |
| 21 | But you can have it with a small letter . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's like doing a jigsaw and making your own pieces up ’ , said Mrs Joel as she deftly removed a petal that was too large and replaced it with a smaller one . |
| 23 | Christopher Columbus did it with a smaller crew than Taylor has tried so far . |
| 24 | Me , I 've tucking had it with the small place . |
| 25 | The chief stars , Alpha ( 3.9 ) , Delta ( 4.5 ) and Gamma ( 4.7 ) form a triangle ; do not confuse it with the smaller , fainter triangle formed by Alpha , Beta and 9 Equulei . |
| 26 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 27 | I would expect er I would expect the to actually provide us with the small details of of and not necessarily same . |