Example sentences of "took small " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Did you expect this to happen ? ’ she said , as Lucy took small hard bites .
2 Swimfeeder tactics with maggot and wasp grubs took small chub above Stamford Weir .
3 Steve Pierpoint ( Shakespeare ) took small carp and roach on pole and pinkie from the other outfall for second .
4 Tremayne 's vet took small blood samples of all the stable 's runners prior to their last training gallop before they raced , the resulting detailed analysis being able to reveal a whole host of things from a raised lymphocyte count to excreted enzymes due to muscle damage .
5 He took small parts in ballets by Ashton ( a courtier at the ball in the premiere of Cinderella , one of the revellers in the cave scene of Apparitions ) and de Valois ( Checkmate , Don Quixote and Job ) , walked on as a pall-bearer in Helpmann 's Hamlet , and appeared in the classics , where his most prominent parts were a mazurka dancer in Swan Lake and a marquess in the hunting scene of The Sleeping Beauty .
6 He took small sips of drink but refused milk .
7 The domestic events of the spring of 1937 were not without importance but he took small part in them , and a cursory reading of the Cabinet minutes might suggest that he had already retired in mind .
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