Example sentences of "[adv prt] to a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below , uneven steps carved out of the cliff led down to a small sandy cove . |
| 2 | Just inside the door were two steps down to a small living room about ten feet square , behind this was a tiny scullery and the houses had two small bedrooms upstairs . |
| 3 | Still under heavy fire from artillery and mortars , and themselves down to a small amount of ammunition , the remnants of the 1 st Bucks stood fast until dark . |
| 4 | To reach the sea below guests can take the lift , footpath and flight of 177 steps down to a small private beach . |
| 5 | A qualitative examination can be made by the evaporation of a specimen down to a small bulk and immersion in this residue at the boil of a small swatch of cotton , nylon , and polyester-fibre yarns . |
| 6 | ) A tunnel of netting stretched over semi-circular hoops narrowed down to a small catching area . |
| 7 | We finally tracked it down to a small covered trailer behind a parked car . |
| 8 | Here no conversion had been done to the wretched little room , once a scullery , with two steps down to a small yard stacked high with rubbish . |
| 9 | However , setting this aside and taking parent-authorisation at face value , the high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage perceived to be casual or persistent truants . |
| 10 | The high percentage of absent pupils came down to a small percentage of unauthorised absentees as the diagram shows . |
| 11 | Behind the wall was part of Moorlake 's garden , but most of the latter lay behind the house itself , and ran down to a small stream , with a view beyond of fields and woods , some forty acres of which had been owned by Alicia Lockwood , the remains of her father 's more extensive holding . |
| 12 | He wants to move down to a smaller house in Weybridge . |
| 13 | Newman walked over to a small wall cupboard . |
| 14 | Karelius nodded and took his drink over to a small table by the window . |
| 15 | He walked over to a small table at one side of the room , and started to fiddle with what Folly guessed must be an answering machine . |
| 16 | ‘ Should I start by saying all the usual , very appropriate things ? ’ he asked lightly as he took their drinks over to a small table near the cavernous fireplace . |
| 17 | While Ben went to get their luggage she led her guests over to a small building , separated from the main house by a large garage complex . |
| 18 | This was why , for the greater part of her education , she had been sent off to a small private boarding-school , where Harriet liked to feel that the company of contemporaries compensated for all that was lacking in her home environment . |
| 19 | The taxi took them off to a small restaurant , and with everywhere seeming crowded to full capacity Fabia guessed , when they were straight away shown to a table , that Ven must have had the forethought to book in advance . |
| 20 | They had got in through a cellar window at the back and made their way up to a small office on the third landing where , according to Cyril , the sole employee had been there man and boy until he became fossilized and had to be removed feet first from his station . |
| 21 | And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct . |
| 22 | There was a bell-pull connected up to a small porter 's lodge inside . |
| 23 | As she did so , she noticed that the heath adjoining the road rose up to a small hill , on top of which stood an old and dilapidated windmill . |
| 24 | The monkey was wired up to a small computer terminal and was punching away with its leathery fingers at buttons on the keyboard in front of it . |
| 25 | I walked along the edge , then up to a small sand-covered hill . |
| 26 | Two stone steps and a low wide door in the far wall led up to a smaller kitchen , and beyond that was the gloomy pantry where trussed birds and enormous rounds of butter and cheese were stacked on cold stone slabs . |
| 27 | Returning to his cab , he reversed in until he was backed up to a smaller , mustard-coloured van in the adjoining space behind . |
| 28 | The dining room has a thirty foot wall of glass which enables guests to view the attractive landscaped garden and which looks out to a small patio for guests to enjoy in the summer . |
| 29 | Colour a little piece of fondant brown and roll out to a small strip . |
| 30 | The redundancies were , the company says , incurred largely by its manufacturing operations , which it is currently scaling down and moving out to a smaller site in Alabama . |