Example sentences of "a small village " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life in a small village could be deadly dull , and Henry had been absolutely charming when he chose to be . |
| 2 | All the properties overlook the sea and there is a small village nearby ; the harbour has a pier with a regular ferry service too and from Mallaig . |
| 3 | Van Der Meulen was an austere , patriarchal figure , deeply imbued with the rigidly Calvinist outlook he had acquired from his father , a schoolmaster in a small village near the German frontier . |
| 4 | The advance was a distance of about five or six miles , passing through Bavant , a small village now occupied by No. 6 Commando . |
| 5 | He was the grandson of a traditional Kikuyu smith who made spears and knives in the late nineteenth century in a small village about twenty miles from Nairobi . |
| 6 | 13 Platoon had subsequently been tasked with providing the security for the funeral , which was to be held in a small village near Strabane . |
| 7 | Shawell is a small village close to the boundary of Leicestershire with both Warwickshire and Northamptonshire . |
| 8 | Imagine how we felt when we heard talk , on the BBC , of the possible intention to bomb Puerto Madryn ( Welsh : Porth Madryn ) , named after Love Jones Parry of Madryn — which is a small village , some three miles from where I live and am now writing . |
| 9 | MRS X , a housewife who lives in a small village in the South-East , became a victim of Brighton-based knockers less than a fortnight after the death of her husband , who was a keen collector of china , silver and oil paintings . |
| 10 | The two men , who both came from a small village in Lithuania , almost hero-worshipped the handsome Italian with his love of liquor and of women . |
| 11 | Philip Yale Drew was born in a small village near Boston , Massachusetts in March 1880 . |
| 12 | At a small village , a hamlet of stone cottages , two boys with loose felt hats and sandals , like ragged street urchins . |
| 13 | There were many names for such a small village , and the old man remembered most of them from his childhood . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Scourie is a small village by the sea at the end of the road from Lairg to Laxford ; a few houses , attractive caravan site , shop , post office , and not much else . |
| 16 | The road to the fell leaves the A65 at Cowan Bridge , a small village where a tablet on the gable of a former school proudly proclaims that the Brontë sisters were educated there in 1824–25 before the transfer of the school to Casterton . |
| 17 | It branched off opposite a small village , a satellite of Reggane , almost where I had begun walking . |
| 18 | It was probably at his suggestion that the Wordsworths walked one evening to Holford , a small village three miles west from Stowey on the road to Putsham and Kilve . |
| 19 | Edenderry , hitherto a small village in the parish of Seagoe , became officially part of Portadown in 1840 . |
| 20 | Tagore described one of these lovers of all things : ‘ One day in a small village in Bengal , an ascetic woman from the neighbourhood came to see me . |
| 21 | They found them a few days later , taking refuge in a small village of thatched mud-walled cabins at the foot of the Partry mountains . |
| 22 | I remember years ago , when I was teaching slow learners in a Child Guidance clinic , a little girl from a small village was reading a story in which reference was made to someone ‘ cheeking the dinner lady . ’ |
| 23 | Over a period of two months we released some 300 000 into a small village in Upper Volta in West Africa . |
| 24 | Now that Kilwinning has mushroomed from being a small village to having a population of almost 16,500 , it is to be hoped that some of the new residents will take an interest in the town 's historic past and will ensure the continued existence of the Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers and the papingo shoot . |
| 25 | The church is very attractive in a well-treed setting , and fronted by a small village green . |
| 26 | Of great interest are the church bells , very fine for a small village church . |
| 27 | For a small village Long Riston is well equipped for sporting and other leisure activities . |
| 28 | It is a large church for what has always been a small village — perhaps the work of some medieval lord of the manor intent on impressing the neighbouring gentry . |
| 29 | Paull is a small village lying beside the river Humber some seven miles from Hull and three and a half miles south-west of Hedon . |
| 30 | Although a small village , Rise has tradition , and a love of its history , which will result in it always being remembered by the people who live within its boundaries . |