Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few doors away I watched for half an hour through a film of sunlit flour motes as a small , soft mass of dough was miraculously spun and flung out to cover six-foot squares of sacking by two whirling , wizened old men . |
| 2 | Morning light squeezes through a small split in the curtain . |
| 3 | When she requires a new cooker , she begs for a small loan from the Department of Social Security . |
| 4 | The road goes through a small hamlet where there is a pond , a few square metres of tired water with a few pieces of rusty iron breaking its surface . |
| 5 | The initial lesion starts as a small papule or vesicle , which ulcerates and spreads leaving a raised , velvety reddened area , which bleeds easily . |
| 6 | Wiwaxia looks like a small Belgian chocolate covered in scales , with some bigger spikes pointing out here and there . |
| 7 | It looks like a small cottage whose thatch has forgotten to stop , running down all four walls to ground level . |
| 8 | Looks like a small boy , sometimes a little lost . |
| 9 | A bright yellow light shines from what looks like a small window in the east wall . |
| 10 | The Manx shearwater is the largest of the three , and looks like a small black and white fulmar ( to which it is , of course , related ) . |
| 11 | Lake Pátzcuaro lies in a small ( 927km 2 ) , closed intermontane basin in the volcanic highlands of Michoacán ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 12 | In these nuclei the body can readily be distinguished from the chromocentres since it is appreciably darker staining and lies in a small " notch " in the nuclear membrane . |
| 13 | Those on the western side of the continent travel down to California , while the eastern population of roughly 100 million butterflies overwinters in a small area of central Mexico . |
| 14 | The refurnished signal box stands in a small area of land complete with a section of track , a turnout and signals . |
| 15 | The jar stands in a small tank of water , along with Brine Shrimp hatching bottles . |
| 16 | It stands in a small square , now some five feet below the present ground level , surrounded by cypress trees . |
| 17 | MRS X , a housewife who lives in a small village in the South-East , became a victim of Brighton-based knockers less than a fortnight after the death of her husband , who was a keen collector of china , silver and oil paintings . |
| 18 | The Hermit lives in a small slated cot , with a very tiny cottage window in it , in one of the loneliest corners of the glen . |
| 19 | Kim Hartman , the actress who plays the truly Aryan Helga in the BBC comedy series 'Allo ‘ Allo , lives in a small Cotswold village and drives a Polo Boulevard , a special edition of VW 's small car , which is equipped with a 1.3-litre engine . |
| 20 | Now she lives in a small flat in Ladbroke Grove , with a young woman she says is her niece . |
| 21 | One species , which lives in a small area round the Suez , certainly does ripen its eggs at full moon , and a sea urchin off California has a similar lunar cycle , so there may be some substance to the fishermen 's claim . |
| 22 | ‘ She lives in a small alleyway just past The Magpie and Crown off Watling Street . ’ |
| 23 | Finn lives in a small place in America , and having been poor , still lives in the same way . |
| 24 | It stands on a small hill , higher than the other villas , with a private approach road and a large balcony looking out to sea . |
| 25 | The Eibenstein stands on a small hill in its own lovely park and garden , yet it is right in the middle of this bustling resort . |
| 26 | It stands on a small mound at the junction of the two villages . |
| 27 | The Senggigi Beach Hotel stands on a small promontory with an exceptionally lovely beach . |
| 28 | The Church of the Kapnikarea , built originally c. 875 and enlarged in the thirteenth century , now stands on a small island in the centre of Athens traffic . |
| 29 | Godwin illustrates on a small scale the proximity of cesspool and pump ( Fig. 34a ) which an investigator in the town of Stafford in 1866 found to be a more general rule : ‘ The water supply of the whole town is obtained from wells , many of them in close proximity to receptacles of filth ; and I am in the habit of saying , partly in joke , but principally in earnest , that the persons living at No. 6 drink the water that is made at No. 7 . |
| 30 | But the book does explore the emotional effect that this major change has on a small boy 's life in a clever and very unusual way . |