Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] small " in BNC.
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| 1 | That afternoon she and I devised in the small front room of our lodgings ( pliant landlady , audience of children ) a double act : the Carruthers Sisters . |
| 2 | I lived in a small village in Essex with my sister , who was over twenty years older than me , and married to Joe Gargery , the village blacksmith . |
| 3 | I lived in a small , second floor flat with my father , my mother being dead , which overlooked a small , noisy courtyard . |
| 4 | As I moved into the small museum , a male chorus started singing over the sound system : Glory , glory , it 's a hell of a way to die … |
| 5 | I took an early morning train from Paris to Toulouse , where I changed to a small local train for Ax-les-Thermes . |
| 6 | until I came across a small display above bottles of castor oil , laxa suppositories and a well known laxative was a sign reduced for clearance ! |
| 7 | So , when at last I came to a small village with a large church , I decided that perhaps the priest might be the best person to tell me where these prehistoric pagans buried their dead . |
| 8 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 9 | Not feeling too well I parked in the small road by the National Westminster Bank , Bishop Auckland , to go to the bank and Marks and Spencer . |
| 10 | About two-and-a-half years later I walked into a small clothes shop to see the celebrity holding court . |
| 11 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 12 | ‘ I felt like a small boy beside her . |
| 13 | I lay in the small , gauzy tent made by my mosquito net and tossed and turned and had one dream after another . |
| 14 | I went to a small dressmaker in Lillie road with some material brought from Newfoundland on one of the brief dockings . |
| 15 | But I I did take part in it when I was a a boy in school , and that 's a that 's a fair while ago , now right enough , but er er I used to attend the er Well a primary school , I went to the small Grimness school , in the north end of South Ronaldsay , which has now been closed for over twenty years . |
| 16 | I went into a small room and handed my Service Pay Book to the Waaf Officer seated behind the desk , and I suppose we exchanged a few words . |
| 17 | Mystified , I took off the small velvet beret I was wearing and , miraculously , the vast hall was quiet , and I learned that the chant had been Cha-peau ! |
| 18 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 19 | I spoke like a small child . |
| 20 | The one terrible thing I witnessed as a small child was my mother suddenly rising from the dining-table with face tortured and crying , ‘ I am going to die ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's an easy enough error to have made , ’ I said with a small smile . |
| 22 | They would sit patiently either side of my word processor as I wrote into the small hours , purring appreciatively when I was pleased with myself , and opening their eyes enquiringly when I was not . |
| 23 | I sat in a small easy chair , the stiff clothes seeking out the bruises and abrasions of the night , my hand throbbing with pain . |
| 24 | Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter . |
| 25 | A notably successful example of a glass shot ( see page 44 ) appears in the Powell/Pressburger version of Rumer Godden 's 1938 novel , Black Narcissus ( 1947 ) , which centred on a small group of nuns in the Indian Himalayas . |
| 26 | Edinburgh was totally different from London ; a royal burgh , it was built according to some sort of plan : long narrow streets with timbered and stone houses on either side , some joined together , others separated by narrow runnels or alleyways which led to a small garden or croft behind each tenement . |
| 27 | Each pair of houses shared a front door , staircase and a passageway which led to the small rear yard . |
| 28 | He always used the side door which led into a small office . |
| 29 | In 1980 , local elections were to be held , implementing the ‘ Gengshen Reforms ’ , which allowed for a small but significant element of democratisation at the local level . |
| 30 | In the Far East , the Azahari revolt broke out in Brunei in December 1962 ; and , although it was crushed relatively easily by British and Gurkha troops stationed in Malaya , it led on to the Indonesian ‘ Confrontation ’ , which began in a small way in April 1963 . |