Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having satisfactorily ascertained its existence through the whole length of the spinal marrow , my next object was to discover whether it was a continued tube from one extremity to the other : this was most decidedly proved , by dividing the spinal marrow through the middle , and pouring mercury into the orifice where the canal was cut across : it passed in a small stream with equal facility towards the brain ( into which it entered ) , or in a contrary direction to where the spinal marrow terminates . |
| 2 | She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built . |
| 3 | It came in a small erm small envelope . |
| 4 | It seemed like a small , sweet miracle . |
| 5 | Secondly , there 's no reason to suppose it happened in a small population . |
| 6 | It consisted of a small group of people whose names were printed in a list pasted on the endpapers of the volumes . |
| 7 | It is said that initially it consisted of a small number of ex-convicts brought together and controlled by British intelligence . |
| 8 | It consisted of a small oblong patch of mown but weedy grass , in the centre of which stood a small green flowerless shrub with dirty leaves . |
| 9 | I have only seen one badger in the so-called ‘ wild ’ , caught in the beam of car headlights as it dashed across a small country road in Cornwall . |
| 10 | Nick Wright of the Photo Co-op also took four or five groups around the exhibition , and some 400 Education Packs were sent to schools around the country , explaining what Magnum is , how it started with a small band of six , and how it has now grown to over a hundred , with offices in New York , Paris and London . |
| 11 | It started in a small spiritualist church in Swindon . |
| 12 | ‘ It started in a small way but has kept on growing . |
| 13 | It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere . |
| 14 | It looked like a small black cow . |
| 15 | I found the Golden Turk where it nestled in a small alleyway , just beneath the great mass of St Paul 's . |
| 16 | Originally it stood in a small church in Via San Pietrò which has long since disappeared , and was christened the ‘ Man of Stone ’ when it was repositioned . |
| 17 | She returned to the present , replaced the cleaned pail , the soap , the brush and the swab beside the pump in the lean-to outhouse at the back — it stood in a small soot-encrusted yard where a few fearless London sparrows frequently gathered — and returned to the house to clean the surgery . |