Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She encouraged him to try a small amount of soft food and to take nourishing foods such as soups . |
| 2 | Snoring louder than ever he fumbled again and I saw him insert a small blade into the side of the carriage . |
| 3 | Patrick saw him unzip a small pocket . |
| 4 | I 'll ring Bourne and get him to organise a small team . |
| 5 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 6 | Unable to move her upper body , she watched him roll a small bundle of laundry and insert it between her buttocks and the post : thereby thrusting her thighs forward . |
| 7 | He then spent 18 years taking still shots for posters until Saatchi and Saatchi 's asked him to direct a small commercial . |
| 8 | Then he made the small finger-gesture , as among professionals , for ‘ switching clients ’ . |
| 9 | He unlocked the small side door and stepped into the darkness . |
| 10 | He laid a small bet with himself that Fishbane had been responsible for giving her this photo-opportunity . |
| 11 | Whichever I chose would be empty and I 'd wait , wide-eyed with disappointment , till with a flourish he produced a small toy or sweets from behind his back . |
| 12 | He consulted the small book again . |
| 13 | Henry , morose , defiant and all but monosyllabic , had been out for a drink early in the evening , but had returned before nine with his younger brother , Francis , with whom he shared a small cottage . |
| 14 | He interrupted the small talk . |
| 15 | There he led a small group of men from the 22nd NZ Battalion to rescue an injured officer , in the process silencing five machine-guns and an anti-tank weapon and taking 130 prisoners . |
| 16 | He got a small part in a hospital drama . |
| 17 | He produces a small card from his waistcoat pocket and presents it . |
| 18 | It was seamed at the back , and running his fingertips the length of the seam he encountered a small patch halfway down that was sticky and stiffening , and withdrew them smeared with drying blood . |
| 19 | After leaving the Institute , where he retained a small laboratory which he visited at weekends , Butler 's administrative duties were so heavy that he had little time for mycological research . |
| 20 | For an exhibition he built a small electron accelerator with a cloud chamber as detector for the particles produced by the electron collisions . |
| 21 | Meanwhile Giovanna 's immense husband had waddled off to a patch of rough grass in which he hunted until he found a small metal square . |
| 22 | After four hours of diligent searching , he found a small parcel which looked rather like a discarded packet of sandwiches . |
| 23 | When he found a small flat in London , he invited her to stay with him ; it had only one bedroom but two beds . |
| 24 | He walked along the Harrow Road until he found the small turning he wanted . |
| 25 | Beneath the pad he found the small entry wound ; the larger exit hole had gone unnoticed beneath the man 's leg and was draining the lifeblood from him . |
| 26 | Out of one of them he drew a small notebook , in which he proceeded to write . |
| 27 | As Kevin Brown and his agent slithered off the rim of the high ground and into the woodland , he drew a small radio from his pocket and spoke quietly and urgently for several seconds . |
| 28 | But he has no small talk . |
| 29 | He has no small talk , except about politics and , possibly , cricket . |
| 30 | ‘ Officially he does , General , but for the purposes of his private life he has a small apartment , a flat as the English call it . |