Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] some small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This picture has been placed inside a 7. 5-cm ( 3-in ) square aperture , and I used some small silverweed leaves , with a few sprays of forget-me-not , some geums , two pink larkspurs , plus several red and white hawthorn blossoms . |
| 2 | As I ran , I heard some small stones falling from the side of a steep hill . |
| 3 | By this stage the circular shape was building well , but I needed some smaller flowers to fill out the edges of the wreath , so used some Anemone japonica to balance the dark reds . |
| 4 | That evening while I was strolling by the sea , I felt some small twinge of sadness that I could not possess such physical belongings . |
| 5 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 6 | I wished I had some small thing to show her as a reference : perhaps not a book , an article in a learned journal . |
| 7 | ‘ But before I go on to thank our host , Lord Darlington , I have some small thing I would wish to remove from my chest . |
| 8 | But bit by bit , Wilson became aware that she had some small skill in the matter of keeping a boarding house and that her future , and her family 's , might indeed lie in that direction . |
| 9 | I know she 's difficult , but at least you 're showing you have some small feeling for her . ’ |
| 10 | She supposed some small part of her had hoped that he would come after her . |
| 11 | But in all places save the bigger cities murder is a rare event , and had you chosen some small locality , however well known to you and attractive , your atmosphere of realism would be reduced every time that one more murder ( and murder you almost must have ) was notified to the police station . |
| 12 | We made some small talk as I tried to fix my eyes on his face to forget that my palms were sweating and my peripheral vision was registering only sky . |
| 13 | Standing on the edge of the lake , they threw some small memento of their dead into the rippling water — a final request that their souls should rest in peace . |
| 14 | But towards the end of the second or fourth repeat he made some small alteration in the ports de bras so that the dancer could move easily into the next sentence . |
| 15 | He puts some small packages on the table . |