Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at the small " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gazed at the small , gaudily dressed figure ; the clown , the madman , the genius . |
| 2 | And she took the child by the hand and walked her to the settle , and when they were seated she looked at the small figure by her side , at the hair , like a golden halo round the oval face , and the limpid grey eyes gazing so trustfully at her . |
| 3 | She looked at the small key on the table , then dropped that into the envelope with the note . |
| 4 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 5 | He looked at the small glass dials on the wooden dashboard . |
| 6 | He looked at the small piece of plastic . |
| 7 | He looked at the small yellow novel in his lap . |
| 8 | He looked at the small , wooden stake leaning against the scaffold . |
| 9 | He stared at the small postcard in front of him . |
| 10 | Sharpe instinctively reined in his horse as he stared at the small cluster of buildings that marked the crossroads called Quatre Bras . |