Example sentences of "have [verb] for [art] short [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson went to the lavatory — at least , that is presumably what Boswell means when he says , ‘ having retired for a short time ’ — ; and Boswell and Monboddo engaged cordially with each other . |
| 2 | There the Millers may have lived for a short while . |
| 3 | Also , habitation only seems to have lasted for a short time , and Aggersborg may never have been finished . |
| 4 | Perhaps — it had seemed for a short while — she herself might leave him . |
| 5 | He had gone for a short walk over some fields — his constitutional — and had met a woman pushing a bicycle . |
| 6 | She clung to the picture of Mrs Rundle at home , for she had been a part of her home and the children had moored for a short while in the black harbour of her lap . |
| 7 | Speaking at his home at James Street , Falkirk , Graeme explained that before the incident , he had worked for a short spell on a YTS course with ScotRail , before taking a job as a gardener . |