11.   Ignoring her, he looked through a small pile of paperbacks on the bedside table then settled down with the latest Ken Follett.

12.   I stood up and gazed at a small pile of my toys which had been thrown to one side of my cupboard.

13.   And when it is over, his grieving family will scatter a small pile of gravel that was once part of the towers in some of his favorite places.

14.   As he rose to greet yet another customer, Schroeder winced to see a waitress busily sweeping away a small pile of peanut shells from under the bar.

15.   At the garage he pointed out small piles of brass cartridge casings at the lip of the pit and then climbed down inside to show the bloodstains.

16.   A waiter then tops up the glass with Billecart-Salmon Champagne and deposits small pile pomegranate seeds in the drink.

17.   A small pile of oranges was placed before the figure, illuminated by faint red bulbs.

18.   But the tape released to the public was reduced to one minute, showing only a small pile of powder on the floor in an otherwise pristine room.

19.   By the side of his desk, Mujahid keeps his small pile of reference books, one the Koran and another a guide to the New York Public Library.

20.   E.B. White has a stone in there somewhere, too, although it was a very small pile when he made his contribution.