Example sentences of "he [verb] a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He laid a small bet with himself that Fishbane had been responsible for giving her this photo-opportunity . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He got a small part in a hospital drama . |
| 6 | He produces a small card from his waistcoat pocket and presents it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For an exhibition he built a small electron accelerator with a cloud chamber as detector for the particles produced by the electron collisions . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After four hours of diligent searching , he found a small parcel which looked rather like a discarded packet of sandwiches . |
| 12 | When he found a small flat in London , he invited her to stay with him ; it had only one bedroom but two beds . |
| 13 | Out of one of them he drew a small notebook , in which he proceeded to write . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Officially he does , General , but for the purposes of his private life he has a small apartment , a flat as the English call it . |
| 16 | And he has a small ticket business , you know , last-minute box at the opera or hospitality suites at Wembley for a Springsteen concert , or Centre Court at Wimbledon , that sort of thing . |
| 17 | Outside he has a small pond , containing Goldfish , Rosy Barbs , Mosquito fish , Guppies and Corydoras aeneus , many of which have spawned outside during the summer . |
| 18 | More recently he has turned up in The Fisher King and At Play in the Fields of the Lord , and he has a small role in Coppola 's forthcoming Dracula . |
| 19 | Six years he opening a small foundry at the back . |
| 20 | If he meets a small kitten at this stage he may try to mount it and mate with it . |
| 21 | Masson returned to England in 1842 , embittered and short of money , although from 1845 he received a small pension from the East India Company . |
| 22 | After a short while he identified a small bacon-curing business that he felt was worth investing in . |
| 23 | One evening he turned a small chair over on its side and said ‘ While I 'm gone , Geraldine , dear , could you work on turning this chair into a forest ? ’ |
| 24 | Lieutenant Roger Courtney joined No. 8 Commando at the same time as Stirling , and during the training period in the latter part of 1940 he organized a small group to train in the Scottish lochs with folding canoes . |
| 25 | He poured a small quantity into two mugs and handed one to me . |
| 26 | He handed a small scroll across to Corbett , who checked the purple wax seal of the King before breaking it and unrolling the vellum . |
| 27 | He opened a small side-door and walked into a small side-hall . |
| 28 | ‘ Some scraps of beef , he opened a small jar of wine . |
| 29 | He opened a small cupboard in an old sideboard and took out of a bottle of Gordon 's gin . |
| 30 | He gestures a small space between his finger and thumb . |