Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | They passed through a small station and she caught a glimpse of a couple of people standing on the windswept platform , but other than that there was nothing to see . |
| 2 | As he passed through a small piazza there was a shout and a boy appeared at a window holding a bulging plastic shopping bag which he let drop to a friend in the street who stood , arms raised to catch it . |
| 3 | Indeed , he had hardly referred to her except once as we passed through a small hamlet and had seen children baiting a poor , crazed woman by the crossroads . |
| 4 | A minority of the Commission argued for a small number of super-selective schools , for the most able 2 per cent of each age group . |
| 5 | Rubbing away a thin film of ice , he peered through a small frame of snow — and saw Tom Hanks entering the farmyard , plodding doggedly behind a horse that was struggling to pull an improvised wooden snow-plough ! |
| 6 | In August 1942 a violent clash occurred between a small group of armed Falangists and a crowd of Carlists attending a memorial mass for the latter 's war-dead . |
| 7 | The increase in net flows to developing countries occurred despite a small drop ( from US48,100 million in 1988 to US$46,700 million in 1989 ) in official development assistance by members of the OECD 's development assistance committee ( which included all OECD countries except Iceland , Luxembourg , Portugal and Spain ) . |
| 8 | We headed onto a small lane which took us straight towards Marloes ' magnificent sands . |
| 9 | He trained with a small firm in Cardiff . |
| 10 | He trained with a small firm in Mansfield . |
| 11 | He had hoped to waken her gently , but she drew in a small gasping breath . |
| 12 | Bicker doctored the hurts of the horses with some strong-smelling salve which he gouged from a small wooden box and smeared on their wounds . |
| 13 | Zen stopped in a small grocery and ordered a roll filled with anchovies sprinkled with vinegar and a little crushed chilli , which he ate with a glass of white wine . |
| 14 | The lie had a pronounced effect upon Lettice who immediately ventured on a small excursion into terror . |
| 15 | He and Auntie Lucy moved to a small cottage nearby , but he continued to keep sheep in the fields surrounding our home . |
| 16 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 17 | As Hatch moved to a small drinks trolley , well stocked with spirits , Cowley took a last , lingering look at the photograph of Patrick Weaver , father of the dead bride . |
| 18 | The English embassy in France has a mansion in the Rue des Medeans , but in early spring they moved to a small castle outside Paris , the Chateau de Maubisson . |
| 19 | After walking for approximately a quarter of a mile he stopped outside a small detached cottage on his left . |
| 20 | They stopped outside a small house , single-storeyed , one window beneath its dripping , soggy thatch roof , and a battered ale-stake jutting out from beneath the eaves . |
| 21 | I took an early morning train from Paris to Toulouse , where I changed to a small local train for Ax-les-Thermes . |
| 22 | Six hours into the journey , and several thousand feet higher , we stopped at a small village to quench our thirst and refuel the jeep from rusty milk-cans . |
| 23 | He stopped at a small , quiet pub and bought a meal , then went on again . |
| 24 | They stopped at a small bar where everybody spoke Irish , which made Jessica feel very odd , as if she had wandered to a very foreign country , then drove out along the switchback road laid on the bog , through soil so thin and bitter that the white stone bones of Ireland protruded everywhere , mocking the tiny ancient farmsteads where generations had failed even to subsist . |
| 25 | On her way , out of shame that she would mess up the arrangements , she stopped at a small shop and got some fresh rolls and ham , some butter and some tins of Smithwicks bitter . |
| 26 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |
| 27 | The first major accident in an American nuclear reactor occurred at a small prototype military plant in Idaho in 1961 . |
| 28 | During the mela a slight outbreak of cholera occurred at a small station called Manickpore on the Jubbulpore line . |
| 29 | Dexter drove through a small wood , emerging on to a small apron of gravel . |
| 30 | The stranger let go and quickly thumbed through a small black book he had taken from his belt . |