Example sentences of "small [noun] [coord] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had moved with one small freezer and had bought two more mammoths — one of which was housed in the garage . |
| 2 | Over by the fireplace , the headmaster had exhausted his limited store of small talk and had advanced to matters of serious educational concern . |
| 3 | He had been sent to the school when a small child and had not heard from them since . |
| 4 | It was property-led , market- and business-related , aimed at small firms and had little emphasis on employment . |
| 5 | The government 's emphasis on cash crop production was criticized on the grounds that it favoured wealthy exporters rather than small farmers and had hindered industrial development . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since Leopold ruled a small State and had neither fears nor ambitions so far as territorial changes were concerned ( he wished to establish the perpetual neutrality of the Grand Duchy as a tradition of European diplomacy , to give it more or less the status which Switzerland was to enjoy in the following century ) he was able to accept radical ideas and even try to realize them in practice in a way quite impossible to Frederick II or Catherine II . |
| 8 | Moreover , all of these studies either involved very small numbers or had other serious methodological flaws such as lack of objective criteria over initial recruitment or the response to treatment , or both , and lack of a control group . |
| 9 | Indeed , he had hardly referred to her except once as we passed through a small hamlet and had seen children baiting a poor , crazed woman by the crossroads . |