Example sentences of "[pron] came [prep] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Lipchitz was a kindly man , who came from a small , close-knit Jewish village community in Russia . |
| 5 | It was a lesson on how to conduct yourself in huge menacing Dublin traffic if you came from a small place like Knockglen . |
| 6 | A little farther on she came to a small white cottage , in the porch of which stood a nutcrackery old woman whom Breeze mentally dubbed the Witch of Endor . |
| 7 | All went well until she came to a small boy in the second row . |
| 8 | And then she came to a small rise in the land and there was a man , his head under his arm . |
| 9 | We came across a small party of people sitting innocently on a rock enjoying the sunshine . |
| 10 | On the rocky point near the settlement we came across a small flock of birds which had a very familiar look about them : they were whimbrel , that Arctic version of the curlew which breeds on most of the northern islands , including Shetland . |
| 11 | We returned to the car and drove on until we came to a small wooden bridge spanning a rivulet of water coming from a waterfall not far up the hillside behind . |
| 12 | Then , after quite a while , we came to a small clearing . |
| 13 | They came to a small green gate half-buried in the hedge on the right and almost hidden by the overhanging hazel branches . |
| 14 | They sailed round the shoreline of the harbour until they came to a small bay with a large waterfall over which cascaded the purest water . |
| 15 | After what seemed an age , they came into a small room where the roof beams straddled above them like great barren trees , and the wind whistled through the tiny cracks where the moonlight shone through . |
| 16 | The high walls of the Castelo de Sao Jorge lifted above them as they worked their way through a maze of narrow alleys and then , as they came into a small square in front of a church , Devlin emerged from an alley and crossed the cobbles before them towards a cafe . |
| 17 | Many miles from camp they came upon a small specimen partially coated with a frothy greenish-tan crust . |
| 18 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 19 | He came from a small force , Plymouth , and did n't realize that big forces were totally different . |
| 20 | It came in a small erm small envelope . |