Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I lived in a small , second floor flat with my father , my mother being dead , which overlooked a small , noisy courtyard . |
| 3 | I took an early morning train from Paris to Toulouse , where I changed to a small local train for Ax-les-Thermes . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | About two-and-a-half years later I walked into a small clothes shop to see the celebrity holding court . |
| 8 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 9 | ‘ I felt like a small boy beside her . |
| 10 | I went to a small dressmaker in Lillie road with some material brought from Newfoundland on one of the brief dockings . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | I spoke like a small child . |
| 14 | About fifteen quid I think for a small one this chap said , it 's very cheap |
| 15 | " Basically this garden is blue and white and I think in a small garden one has to pay great attention to the colours , otherwise it can look an awful hotchpotch , " says Tricia . |
| 16 | I live in a small village in Suffolk called Wetheringsett . |
| 17 | That 's always a concern at the villages , because I live in a town , I live in a small town near here , erm I 've had a lot of dealings in villages , and people who live in villages always want to have starter homes , but as soon as you put an application in for starter homes , there 's even more opposition to it , as happened down in Bleasby , Council threw that one out . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's an easy enough error to have made , ’ I said with a small smile . |
| 20 | ‘ I come from a small village in the far north of Scotland . ’ |
| 21 | I sat in a small easy chair , the stiff clothes seeking out the bruises and abrasions of the night , my hand throbbing with pain . |
| 22 | Stockley Park near Heathrow is the site of a huge new golf course , where I work from a small mobile office . |
| 23 | I work in a small shire force with a special responsibility to preserve public order on Friday and Saturday nights . |
| 24 | I do n't do many presentations mainly because I work in a small team |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ They 're so sweet and amusing , but … well , they 're also pretty exhausting , too , ’ she admitted with a small sigh . |
| 27 | ‘ I — I 'm afraid so , ’ she admitted in a small voice . |
| 28 | She made three trips , each time carrying a pair of heavy jugs which she emptied into a small copper hip bath : and each time increasingly aware of and responding to the gauntlet of Hope 's lust . |
| 29 | She lived in a small house near ours and seemed very old to me ; but that was many years ago . |
| 30 | When she requires a new cooker , she begs for a small loan from the Department of Social Security . |