Example sentences of "had [vb pp] a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ira Dilworth had arranged a small party for Gracie on the Hotel Vancouver 's mezzanine floor after the coast to coast broadcast , which went off amazingly well . |
| 2 | However , when I stripped the pump off the block , cleaned it and left it on the workbench , I noticed it had leaked a small amount of oil from a 1.5mm hole located near the back underside of the pump . |
| 3 | The situation had begun to deteriorate markedly after the elections of February 1936 returned an coalition of Liberal republicans , socialists , anarchists , communists and Trotskyists to power , even though the right-wing parties had won a small popular majority . |
| 4 | The largest of the groups , the Lombard League , which had won a small percentage in the 1989 European Parliament elections as the Lombardy Regional Party [ see p. 36876 ] , took 19 per cent of the vote in Lombardy and became the second largest party in the region , while separate local leagues in Veneto and Piedmont won between 5 and 7 per cent of the vote each . |
| 5 | One night she had boarded a small fishing vessel moored at a small port near Yalta . |
| 6 | Perhaps she had suffered a small fit after all , or could it have been a touch of fever ? |
| 7 | Her teacher had seen a small notice about a charity in Russia which was looking for hosts for children from the affected regions and had contacted a friend , originally from Russia , who helped investigate the charity . |
| 8 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 9 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 10 | Terence Blacker had made a small bet with himself that he would be the first speaker to mention children 's books : he won . |
| 11 | It is as if I had made a small betrayal . |
| 12 | On Ma Bombie 's instructions everyone had saved a small coin . |
| 13 | In 1979 I had built a small wind-up lectern for table-top use and followed that a couple of years later with a full-size floor-standing lectern that operates hydraulically . |
| 14 | He had bought a small house — a cottage really . |
| 15 | Finally , after a long desperate battle with her conscience , she agreed , after he had had a small heart attack , to put him into a local hospital . |
| 16 | The place where he had founded a small bank . |
| 17 | In fact it had become such a moneyspinner that the proprietor , Mr Ridout the Restaurateur , had opened a small chain of similar eateries . |
| 18 | He found a graze that had oozed a small crust of blood into the thick hair , almost dry now . |
| 19 | The opinion polls , which had shown a small move towards the Tories in the early months of 1982 , now showed a large and growing Conservative majority . |
| 20 | I had packed a small pair of sharp folding scissors and a supply of blotting paper . |
| 21 | Reluctantly , Lucy had packed a small suitcase and had driven the four-hour journey to Hastings , a city situated in the centre of the fertile Heretuanga plains of Hawke 's Bay , where fruit and vegetables grew in abundance . |
| 22 | After 20 minutes , Kendo , the community 's large and powerful dominant male , had isolated a small group of monkeys and was very quickly forcing them towards the north . |
| 23 | The situation is rather as though instead of going to the zoo I had invited a small group of creatures to come to me . |
| 24 | By 1959 , the 1.7-square mile site had become a small industrial town in its own right and production peaked at 470,000 cars , trucks and tractors . |
| 25 | He had become a small tree . |
| 26 | Meh'Lindi had reached a small neglected storeroom cluttered with dusty , cobwebbed tools . |
| 27 | Another day I observed the antics of a sea bird who had found a small crab in one of those rock pools on the beach below the house . |
| 28 | They had found a small restaurant away from the theatre circuit where there was no chance of bumping into Gesner . |
| 29 | They had found a small table tucked in between three long ones , and had already been given a jug of iced water , a long loaf , a pot of butter and a plate of olives . |
| 30 | She 'd told him she wanted a break from her own very successful career — that had been bending the truth more than a little , but taking over the club , putting her own life on hold for a little while , had seemed a small price to pay for her father 's health . |