Example sentences of "[verb] at a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stopped at a small bar where everybody spoke Irish , which made Jessica feel very odd , as if she had wandered to a very foreign country , then drove out along the switchback road laid on the bog , through soil so thin and bitter that the white stone bones of Ireland protruded everywhere , mocking the tiny ancient farmsteads where generations had failed even to subsist . |
| 2 | Six hours into the journey , and several thousand feet higher , we stopped at a small village to quench our thirst and refuel the jeep from rusty milk-cans . |
| 3 | On her way , out of shame that she would mess up the arrangements , she stopped at a small shop and got some fresh rolls and ham , some butter and some tins of Smithwicks bitter . |
| 4 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |
| 5 | During the mela a slight outbreak of cholera occurred at a small station called Manickpore on the Jubbulpore line . |
| 6 | The first major accident in an American nuclear reactor occurred at a small prototype military plant in Idaho in 1961 . |
| 7 | One hastily written poem in Wordsworth 's meditative manner , ‘ Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House ’ , was delivered to Dorothy by young Basil as the Quantock spring was at last arriving : |
| 8 | The Caterham office is now used as a sales centre , while the cars are built at a small factory in Dartford . |
| 9 | Sheer cliffs , 300–400 feet high , defend the island , relenting only where a breach permits landings to be made at a small beach ; nearby an ancient graveyard and ruined crofts are relics of a former occupation . |
| 10 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 11 | The full board option , offered at a small supplement , is very good value . |
| 12 | The full board arrangement offered at a small supplement represents very good value . |
| 13 | You could always look at a small selection of the best furniture on display , chosen by fashion designer Paul Smith and on show at his Avery Row and Floral Street shops from Monday 16 October . |
| 14 | ‘ You ! ’ she barked , pointing at a small boy called Rupert in the front row . |
| 15 | When I opened my eyes reluctantly , I was staring at a small piece of pavement miles below , between two sloping hills . |
| 16 | As Sam Somerville took off from Heathrow , Dr Barnard was sitting in his laboratory in Fulham staring at a small collection of pieces of debris spread on a crisp white sheet of paper across a table-top . |
| 17 | For those who are wondering why I have this set-up , the three were introduced at a small size when I thought them a male and two females ; and I am unwilling to upset a settled pair by unnecessarily removing the decor and setting two with a net ! |
| 18 | The men followed at a small distance . |
| 19 | The following day Corbett was busy in the abbey scriptorium , seated at a small desk , writing out a list of facts , snorting with fury at his own mistakes which he would angrily cross out with a score of his pen and begin again . |
| 20 | They were seated at a small table with a red checked cloth surmounted by a clean one of starched white linen , with two glass beakers , two knives and two forks , and a basket of the most delicious freshly baked bread . |
| 21 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 22 | Nash , a scrupulous and sensitive antiquarian , tells us what happened next : ‘ The body , I believe , is perfect , as it has never been opened : we thought it indelicate and indecent to uncover it ; but observing the left hand to lie at a small distance from the body , we took off the cerecloth , and found the hand and nails perfect , but of a brownish colour : the cerecloth consisted of many folds of coarse linen , dipped in wax , tar , and perhaps some gums : over this was wrapt a sheet of lead fitted exactly close to the body . ’ |
| 23 | Her fingers worked at a small lace handkerchief , twisting and untwisting it in an extremity of nervous tension . |
| 24 | One night she had boarded a small fishing vessel moored at a small port near Yalta . |
| 25 | Geoffrey himself was sitting at a small desk . |
| 26 | Five minutes later she was sitting at a small table at the back of the dining-room , hidden from but within full hearing of the noisy bar . |
| 27 | The first shipment of Soviet crude petroleum arrived in Havana on 9 April 1960 , to be processed at a small refinery operated by the Cuban petroleum Institute . |
| 28 | That night the King and Wallis met at a small restaurant in Piccadilly . |
| 29 | I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard . |
| 30 | Now the little girl sits at a small table in the cellar , the playing cards , Ludo and Monopoly set aside , as snipers ' bullets smack into the building and an grenades drop into the street . |