Example sentences of "in a small [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in England , in the autumn , the saucepans came into their own , as Alix , in a small basement flat in Islington , struggled to learn the rudiments of domesticity . |
| 2 | These also help to tie the whole arrangement together , but in a small herb garden it is too restrictive of plant species , and one can still get a good result if individual beds are planted with different collections . |
| 3 | Oliver was locked in a small stone cell , which was disgustingly dirty and smelly . |
| 4 | Next door , in a small art gallery and museum , I saw more drawings by Jack Yeats , all excellent . |
| 5 | Born in a small council house in Viewpark in 1944 , he rose through the ranks of local schools football and almost joined Manchester United as a teenager before Celtic stepped in . |
| 6 | Mrs Smith is a widow living in a small council flat in Bermondsey . |
| 7 | He reckons that if he were getting paid on the same basis that he gets paid for GP beds , in a small GP unit , he could afford to employ the additional staff , and resources and back-up to help make it all happen . |
| 8 | Place the fish in a small china dish and add the lime juice , making sure that all the fish is completely covered . |
| 9 | Loopy Lil 's cooked egg sat , still in its shell , in a small china cup with a spoon lying beside it . |
| 10 | Looking for peace and solitude , he bought a cottage in a small Bedfordshire village and had a garage turned into a bungalow for his beloved grandmother . |
| 11 | For the three weeks of rehearsals before the production opened in Edinburgh , he moved out of his Wimbledon home and stayed in a small hotel room , away from his wife and children . |
| 12 | Paul and Lynda Wilson of Middlesbrough want to open a pizzeria in a small shopping parade in New Marske . |
| 13 | He lived in considerable squalor and acrimony in a small Putney flat with his ‘ three bitches ’ : Queenie , his ageing Aunt Bunny , and his emotionally unstable sister , Nancy . |
| 14 | Kim Hartman , the actress who plays the truly Aryan Helga in the BBC comedy series 'Allo ‘ Allo , lives in a small Cotswold village and drives a Polo Boulevard , a special edition of VW 's small car , which is equipped with a 1.3-litre engine . |
| 15 | This last quality was , however , manifest in his second ( and best ) film , Le Coeur Battant ( 1961 ) , a witty and enchanting comedy about a couple in a small seaside resort — she ( Francoise Brion ) waiting for her lover to arrive and he ( Jean-Louis Trintignant ) gradually falling in love with her but refusing to admit it even to himself . |
| 16 | You should be an experienced dinghy sailor ( regularly sails with inexperienced crews ) who has also spend at least six days living and sailing in a small sailing cruiser . |
| 17 | On 4 September 1843 , while Hugo was travelling with his mistress , his newly married daughter Léopoldine and her husband Charles took to the river at Villequier in a small sailing boat . |
| 18 | Place the oil , lemon juice , spring onions , parsley and seasonings in a small screw top jar and shake well . |
| 19 | I kept it on the premises after that , in a small rabbit enclosure . |
| 20 | Extracts from the diary of a working supervisor in a small building company , with useful tips on all sorts of building and decorating work . |
| 21 | It started in a small spiritualist church in Swindon . |
| 22 | The power delegated by the USSR to the NKLP resides in a small elite leadership of Soviet-sponsored professional revolutionaries who rule the party 's relatively enormous , illiterate , mass membership with customary Communist discipline . |
| 23 | It started life in a small London reggae label , Kongo Records , run by Omar 's father , Byron Lyefouk , who shifted 40,000 copies of the album with minimum publicity . |
| 24 | I now live in a small Perthshire village , substantially less homogeneous than the one in which I grew up but in which there are also a few catholic families and where the majority are of presbyterian Scottish/Ulster stock . |
| 25 | Carrie cooed softly as she fixed the large safety pin to the napkin and wrapped the child in a small flannelette sheet , tucking the edges under her chin as she cuddled the soft , sweet-smelling bundle to her . |
| 26 | I grew up in a small mining village on the outskirts of Rotherham during the fifties and sixties . |
| 27 | Born in a small mining village near Glenrothes , he has climbed the ladder by learning his craft . |
| 28 | The young and the elderly are to be catered for in a small land reclamation scheme in New Skelton . |
| 29 | And there is evidence for the prompt celebration of the Feasts of the Transfiguration and the Visitation , officially instituted in 1457 and 1475 respectively , in an unusual series of screen paintings in a small Devon church connected with the Chudleigh family . |
| 30 | There was nothing he wanted to see at any of the nearby cinemas , he 'd be irritable company in the local pub where he was a contender in a small bar-billiards school , so there was nothing for it but to spend the time watching television with the other sinners . |