Sentence examples for but only small things from inspiring English sources

But only small things, and never the big issues, were to be changed.

(Page says that it's more like two-thirds of the time, but that usually only small things cause disagreement).

Some are only small things but it is an attention to detail that pervades most things at the resort.

"You understand only small things!" Alejandro said.

You could, for instance, take a message to my daughter Natasha.' This might have galvanised decrepit Mrs Green a bit; no one has asked her to do anything much but pass things - and only small things at that - for the last quarter-century.

"For the most part, only small things survived".

He explained, "In Lord Krishna's Bhagavad Gita, he says we are only small things before the great lord.

He is in a rush to get to the hospital, "only small things wrong with me, but all work-related, yes".

He saw only small things, he said, but, if I were trying to keep a problem from happening even once in my next hundred operations, it's the small things I had to worry about.

And not only small things: I got him into a different house when he was bullied at boarding school, and helped him to study for exams.

In "The Gulag Archipelago" — an epic account of the camps' world of death, pain and venality — even Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn could begin with only small things.