Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | His name was Fred Paxford , and he lived in a small wooden bungalow on the other side of the brick kilns . |
| 2 | He lived in a small house there with his brothers and sisters , all Israeli citizens who spoke Hebrew and lived and worked in Israel . |
| 3 | He lived in a small cottage in the fields just off what is now Princess Way . |
| 4 | As he passed through a small piazza there was a shout and a boy appeared at a window holding a bulging plastic shopping bag which he let drop to a friend in the street who stood , arms raised to catch it . |
| 5 | Bicker doctored the hurts of the horses with some strong-smelling salve which he gouged from a small wooden box and smeared on their wounds . |
| 6 | Rubbing away a thin film of ice , he peered through a small frame of snow — and saw Tom Hanks entering the farmyard , plodding doggedly behind a horse that was struggling to pull an improvised wooden snow-plough ! |
| 7 | He stopped at a small , quiet pub and bought a meal , then went on again . |
| 8 | After walking for approximately a quarter of a mile he stopped outside a small detached cottage on his left . |
| 9 | He trained with a small firm in Cardiff . |
| 10 | He trained with a small firm in Mansfield . |
| 11 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 12 | He came from a small force , Plymouth , and did n't realize that big forces were totally different . |
| 13 | He gestured towards a small boy , very solemn and proud in a gorgeous brocade coat . |
| 14 | He turned to a small table by the door , struck a match to light the oil-lamp , and then carefully adjusted it , making me wait for an answer . |
| 15 | He turned to a small cabinet mounted high on the kitchen wall , and in a moment had presented her with a glass of water and two white capsules that she swallowed obediently and not without relief . |
| 16 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |
| 17 | Mr Martin comes to Edinburgh from Basil Blackwell , which he developed from a small family business with sales of under £1 million into a major international publishing group with a turnover of more than £14 million . |
| 18 | ‘ The first Svend knew that there was a search on for Suzie and himself was when my agent arrived at the house earlier this evening , ’ Rune told her calmly as he sorted through a small pile of leaflets . |
| 19 | Chris Ivory , chief executive at Bedale food firm Dalepak said he knew of a small company which would struggle to stay in business if it had to raise wages at the present time . |
| 20 | He crossed to a small occasional table , picking up a silver-framed studio portrait . |
| 21 | His hair curled around his face , and he went to a small basin and swilled water from the tap , rubbing his face and head briskly with a towel . |
| 22 | In the end he went for a small Monet , a house on a cliff-side over the sea , surrounded by flowers . |
| 23 | He went into a small , cold room at the top of the building . |
| 24 | Preceding her now , he went across a small hall and into a sitting-room . |
| 25 | Ignoring her , he looked through a small pile of paperbacks on the bedside table then settled down with the latest Ken Follett . |
| 26 | He wrote in a small , neat , but cramped hand , pausing now and then to refer to one or other of the books and papers spread on his desk . |
| 27 | Just past Anthea Darnell 's room he paused by a small Chippendale table . |
| 28 | He sat on a small stone bench opposite the priest 's house , half dozing , still relishing the memory of his meeting with de Craon . |
| 29 | He sat with a small radar screen in front of him , writing up the small strips that are used by controllers all over the world , strips that have all the different aircraft information on them . |
| 30 | Then without another word he pointed to a small metal-bound box and a canvas bag standing side by side , and climbed from the brig down the plank to the quay below . |