Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] [art] short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one of my jobs to meet the boats and this involves assembling the visitors and talking to them for a short while about the wildlife and rules of the island . |
| 2 | Most fish would not be seriously affected by temperatures somewhat outside this range especially if only exposed to them for a short time . |
| 3 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 4 | The General , perhaps to make his point , informed Aitken of the authoritative report that the government had received and offered to lend it to him for a short while . |
| 5 | That 's good news says Pyramid , because SNI is likely to get closer to it in the short term while these issues are being resolved , whatever the eventual outcome . |
| 6 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |