Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] short " in BNC.
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| 1 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |
| 2 | Previously they used corn-cob husks and bits of walnut shell to remove the carbon dust and oil that build up in large motors and cause them to short circuit . |
| 3 | Jackie Out of Soho reviews it in short exclamation-marked bursts |
| 4 | We let it for short terms to captains and such like . ’ |
| 5 | He addressed them in short , pithy sentences and promptly began his interrogation of each of them . |
| 6 | The idea was to use her for short patrols inshore and around the large estuaries and harbours of the south Coast . |
| 7 | And it 's not everybody 's job to do that , so ordinary people took the jobs as shunters and could be taught how to do it in short time , if they were average and er in good health . |
| 8 | Registry staff must be able to process information without introducing delays , whether it is receiving data from a student and subsequently providing an updated record for that student or taking a request from a lecturer for a list and providing it at short notice or processing an offer made by an admissions tutor so that the candidate hears from PCAS as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | It was not long before someone threw a lump of broken paving through a window ; a dozen sets of plans followed it in short order . |
| 10 | .. certain cat owners have reported that their cats , unlike others , do like to accompany them on short walks . |
| 11 | Although I take her on short trips to the shops , she ca n't cope with going too far from the house . |
| 12 | A medallion in Hughes Hall portrays her with short hair , an aquiline nose , and a determined chin . |
| 13 | Then , abruptly , without a word , he turned away , picked up a piece of copy , and began to correct it with short , violent strokes and swirls of his pen . |