Example sentences of "[adv prt] in a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We came down in a small clearing and ended up in the trees . |
| 2 | Mandle 's calculation of an average benefit of £816 in the 1890s indicates a threefold increase since the 1860s , and would have been enough perhaps to start a man off in a small business . |
| 3 | She wanted to curl up in a small ball somewhere quiet , dark and safe , and stay there until she felt capable of facing the world again . |
| 4 | His portable laboratory is set up in a small tent which is unbearably hot , and could well do without the added heat from his bunsen burner . |
| 5 | I drove down the afternoon before and was put up in a small hotel near the studios . |
| 6 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 7 | He could go and dig up the roadworks during the night , and get some cement made up in a small container and cement up the holes in manhole covers you used to lift the things up by . |
| 8 | They hurriedly threw up earthen walls , stretching blankets over the top to shelter them ; and cooped up in a small place like this , four or five families together , they spent the following winter . ’ |
| 9 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 10 | Pool Bank has its own ghost , that of an unfortunate wife who was walled up in a small room and left to starve to death . |
| 11 | Amaldi grew up in a small town in Lombardy , and took his doctorate in physics from Rome at the remarkably early age of 21 . |
| 12 | Mark 's wishes could n't have been better fulfilled as she ended up in a small tourist camp in Kanha National Park . |
| 13 | She hesitated , then went on in a small voice , ‘ I think I was afraid of what you could do to me . |
| 14 | Both eyes opened and her breath rushed out in a small burst of relief as she rolled over on to her back — and her heart slammed to a stop . |
| 15 | Still shaking somewhat with fright , Millie swallowed twice before she brought out in a small voice , ‘ It 's very nice , thank you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I begin work again next week , out in a small town . |
| 17 | The results of the research will be tested out in a small number of case studies . |
| 18 | He says he 's convinced he saw Mrs Maxwell going out in a small car . |
| 19 | Wine spilled out in a small pool , red and dark , like a bloodstain creeping out over the burnished timber . |
| 20 | Yashkin turned and went to the door , the small stamping machine now back in a small box and in his pocket . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , you know how things get about in a small community , ’ said Dimity soothingly . |