Example sentences of "we [vb past] a small [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We met a small boy , and asked the way to one of the springs . |
| 2 | We made a small profit on the event which , in the current climate , must be quite good news . |
| 3 | We passed a small park where a row of conscript soldiers slept beneath the trees . |
| 4 | We passed a small shrine , a humble domed square of whitewashed adobe , the tomb of a saint , adorned with rags . |
| 5 | We got a small table near the orchestra , which was faking jazz music from their memories and short-wave radio . |
| 6 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 7 | Dramatic-looking black gravel can be hard to come by , so we used a small amount to cover a thick layer of ordinary gravel for the undergravel filter . |
| 8 | We found a small inn in Eastcheap , not too expensive , and had some bread , meat , and beer for our supper . |
| 9 | We found a small tendency for an earlier deterioration in cognitive function , with loss of speed and accuracy of the four choice reaction during the controlled hypoglycaemia induced by porcine insulin but this did not achieve significance . |
| 10 | Then we found a small house about one hundred yards from my university department . |
| 11 | When it was over Janet came into the room and said : ‘ We found a small tumour but you are very lucky because it 's at the preliminary stage . |
| 12 | When we reached this area we found a small stream passing under a bridge marked Puente Chinoluiz . |
| 13 | We opened a small gallery overlooking the roof tops of Sotheby 's in 1976 . |
| 14 | And we opened a small shop there and , in a whole week we could n't even sell fifty pence worth of sweets . |
| 15 | While waiting we watched a small number of trusted prisoners in ragged white cotton shirts , shorts and head-dress come and go apparently freely through the outer gate , engaged in errands or in work in the nearby gardens . |
| 16 | We started a small newsletter to which , in 1965 , we gave the title The Ley Hunter : it is still flourishing , over a quarter of a century later . |
| 17 | We drilled a small hole in the bracket and secured it with a nut and bolt to the front panel . |
| 18 | On moving into our new home last year , we inherited a small pond . |
| 19 | We sent a small plane load of things ahead of us to the States . |
| 20 | The absence of lamellipodia tallies with another observation : when we grafted a small patch of embryonic skin onto a denuded region of the limb bud surface , we found that the grafted epidermis , far from expanding over the adjacent vacant territory , actually retracted , leaving its own mesenchyme exposed . |
| 21 | And we had a small bonfire in a way of small twigs and all that . |
| 22 | We had a small country . |
| 23 | We had a small firework party in the garden of Hastings House , mostly for the children . |
| 24 | After lessons we had a small cup of coffee and half a piece of brown bread , then half an hour 's play , then homework . |
| 25 | ‘ We had a small group saying they wanted to move it back , but there was an overwhelming vote to keep it as it is , ’ said Carmel Hall , secretary of the organising committee . |
| 26 | We published a small item in WOMAN recently about the subject of women 's loos . |