Example sentences of "he [vb past] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made a small wagging movement with the flat of his hand . |
| 2 | He did n't scream but she felt him tremble and he made a small , pathetic groan , like an angry puppy . |
| 3 | He laid a small bet with himself that Fishbane had been responsible for giving her this photo-opportunity . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Out of the same pocket which had held the glasses he produced a small blue and gold box . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He got a small part in a hospital drama . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For an exhibition he built a small electron accelerator with a cloud chamber as detector for the particles produced by the electron collisions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When he found a small flat in London , he invited her to stay with him ; it had only one bedroom but two beds . |
| 14 | After four hours of diligent searching , he found a small parcel which looked rather like a discarded packet of sandwiches . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | From a pocket he drew a small cylindrical probe , and he stalked slowly around the room with it , pointing it at every piece of furniture and ornamentation with a sensitive ear tuned to the probe 's faint hum . |
| 17 | Judging himself to be deep enough within the maze of gas drums , he drew a small waxy brick from inside his jacket . |
| 18 | Out of one of them he drew a small notebook , in which he proceeded to write . |
| 19 | He used a small mechanical calculator to solve each problem , a laborious process later rapidly accomplished by computer . |
| 20 | He designed a small single-seat monoplane which could be used for little but fun flying and possibly racing . |
| 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 | He was about to call Bodie when he noticed a small white writing pad in the opened kitchen drawer . |
| 23 | After a short while he identified a small bacon-curing business that he felt was worth investing in . |
| 24 | 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 ? ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He extracted a small , oddly-shaped , yellow and white stone from the bag at his feet and offered it to her . |
| 27 | He poured a small quantity into two mugs and handed one to me . |
| 28 | He threw a small private party at the Turnberry Hotel and he invited me . |
| 29 | He handed a small scroll across to Corbett , who checked the purple wax seal of the King before breaking it and unrolling the vellum . |
| 30 | He opened a small cupboard in an old sideboard and took out of a bottle of Gordon 's gin . |