Example sentences of "i [vb past] [prep] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lived in a small village in Essex with my sister , who was over twenty years older than me , and married to Joe Gargery , the village blacksmith . |
| 2 | I lived in a small , second floor flat with my father , my mother being dead , which overlooked a small , noisy courtyard . |
| 3 | I took an early morning train from Paris to Toulouse , where I changed to a small local train for Ax-les-Thermes . |
| 4 | until I came across a small display above bottles of castor oil , laxa suppositories and a well known laxative was a sign reduced for clearance ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 7 | About two-and-a-half years later I walked into a small clothes shop to see the celebrity holding court . |
| 8 | When I was a boy I belonged to a small Christian sect that was my whole world . |
| 9 | ‘ I felt like a small boy beside her . |
| 10 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 11 | I went to a small dressmaker in Lillie road with some material brought from Newfoundland on one of the brief dockings . |
| 12 | I went into a small room and handed my Service Pay Book to the Waaf Officer seated behind the desk , and I suppose we exchanged a few words . |
| 13 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 14 | I spoke like a small child . |
| 15 | The one terrible thing I witnessed as a small child was my mother suddenly rising from the dining-table with face tortured and crying , ‘ I am going to die ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's an easy enough error to have made , ’ I said with a small smile . |
| 17 | I sat in a small easy chair , the stiff clothes seeking out the bruises and abrasions of the night , my hand throbbing with pain . |
| 18 | Mr and Mrs Smith , the benign proprietors , were always good to me , giving me a lolly or a ‘ black jack ’ every time I shopped there , and I was looking forward to the treat as I stood behind a small queue masking the counter . |