Example sentences of "had be a small [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held her against him , nursing her as though she had been a small child , while looking down into her face . |
| 2 | Fortunately , it had been a small iceberg , as icebergs go . |
| 3 | The burial had been a small affair . |
| 4 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 5 | The Windorah had been a small family hotel before Jenkins bought it seven years earlier . |
| 6 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 7 | Britain 's initial strategy had been a smaller version of the comprehensive US and USSR space programmes . |
| 8 | I did n't have a protective big brother : all I had was a small sister . |