Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [art] small " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had left your house , I had picked up a small bag . |
| 2 | He picked up the mail and messages on his desk and at once sorted out a small brown envelope addressed ‘ R. Bell Esqre . ’ |
| 3 | By this stage of your career you will have built up a small personal library comprising books of great variety . |
| 4 | We did discover , however , that one called Mait — his officially registered name is Gilles Lemaitre — has built up a small but powerful network of his own , and that they have performed many cochon gris ceremonies . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Granny 's little extortion racket must have built up a small fortune for you . ’ |
| 6 | women still made up a small proportion of postgraduate IT students in 1983–84 — just 13 per cent ; |
| 7 | ‘ We 've already forked out a small fortune in out of court settlements ; and the McEd boy — his father is creating a real stink . ’ |
| 8 | He had brought in a small bottle of liquid . |
| 9 | THE BRITISH government has announced that it has set up a small stockpile of strategically important materials for use by industry . |
| 10 | The economics department at Ripon Grammar School have set up a small business producing items connected with the history of the city . |
| 11 | It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching . |
| 12 | At the same time as the IIMR has set up the sub-committee on earnings per share in this country , at the European level analysts have set up a small monitoring committee in order to ensure that the work by analysts in the different legal and accounting jurisdictions is coherent . |
| 13 | Recently , Mike Lester has recognized the need to co-ordinate and develop the catering side of the operations , and has set up a small Pub Catering Department under the Estates division . |
| 14 | Not marrying , he had set up a small business in specialised agricultural machinery — which had gone bust in 1975 . |
| 15 | In response , SCOTVEC recently set up a small group to consider how to extend the construction option to cover building services , by the addition of extra modules . |
| 16 | She teaches literacy , numeracy and music to a variety of patients from the centre , and has set up a small bible group with the chaplain . |
| 17 | BORDERLINE , I Munro Terrace , SW10 ( 823 3567 ) , has brought out a small but ravishing collection . |
| 18 | Once Malik had cut down a small tree , dragged it across the grass , and cut it up in the back garden , with the help of two large boys in the third year . |
| 19 | Fur trading had a more insidious ecological impact , for what the indigenous people had taken on a small scale for subsistence was now demanded on a large scale for sale in the south . |
| 20 | The girls from the brothel had taken over a small back room . |
| 21 | Even after she had switched off the small lamp beside the bed , so that the room was completely dark , it was hard to be sure if she was really seeing something , or if her eyes were just playing tricks . |
| 22 | She had her handbag open on the table and had taken out a small leather wallet with several plastic pockets in it , for cheque cards and the like . |
| 23 | He had carved out a small apartment for himself in one of the wings , kept on the remnants of an elderly staff of servants , and left the rest of the place as it was . |
| 24 | The private sector has , however , carved out a small specialist ‘ niche ’ in the provision of secure hospital accommodation for people with severe behaviour disorders , those who are considered beyond the care of a local psychiatric hospital . |
| 25 | Even if he did win , the owner would buy him in after the race , so that Boardwalk would have paid back a small fraction of his training costs . |