Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] a short " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite a lot to read I mean I read a short story last week . |
| 2 | I made a short story of the business and sent it up to Encounter , but the puritanical buggers in charge sent me a rejection slip ! |
| 3 | Then I got a short one outside the off stump — four , to go to 96 . |
| 4 | When I knew from nothing about affairs of the heart or the mortgage , I played a short season at the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 5 | I hung around for a while … now I come to think of it , I walked a short way along the path , looking for him . ’ |
| 6 | I wore a short wig in the recent production of Noel Coward 's Private Lives . |
| 7 | I would n't like you to spend your entire time here without having done so , so I thought a short wander beneath the trees before we join Matt at the landing place would be in order . ’ |
| 8 | I took a short break , and when I came back , I went round the local job centres to see what was going . |
| 9 | I saw his grave when I took a short cut through the churchyard — a modest , friendly , even jolly little grave , where in summer moon-daisies and red clover grew , and quaking grass which little children call shivery-shakes . |
| 10 | Trying to get out of the traffic jam , I took a short cut down a back lane but found that it was blocked by a large wedding tent helpfully erected across the full width of the road . |
| 11 | If you must know — Silas and I took a short walk along the track — ’ |
| 12 | I took a shorter way than Sapt and when I reached the moat , I hid my horse in the trees , tied my rope round a strong tree and let myself down into the water . |
| 13 | We were there on 3rd May 1945 when Rangoon was liberated , and that evening I gave a short broadcast over All-India Radio , telling our friends in India and Burma that we should shortly be back in the liberated city to help with the tremendous task of reconstruction . |
| 14 | I gave a short address with one foot on each side of the peace-line [ a sleeping policeman — concrete ] basing my theme on the marvellous passage in the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke — the song of the angels , seen and heard by the shepherds , ‘ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill to all people ’ . |
| 15 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 16 | A COUPLE of years ago I had a short series published in Everyday Electronics covering the design of regulated power units . |
| 17 | Sapt was carrying a long rope and I had a short , thick stick and a long knife . |
| 18 | Instead , I wrote a short paper with Jan Moss in the same journal in which we pointed out this problem with the bubble and showed how it could be resolved . |
| 19 | I wrote a short letter to Benjamin , proclaiming myself a merchant but asking if his uncle had written to him recently . |
| 20 | Case No. 3 : A Lachesis patient , whose main complaint was fatigue , called for further treatment after his improvement stopped 4 months after a dose of Lachesis 1M which created a short initial aggravation . |
| 21 | From his pocket Deems produced an object which resembled a short pencil . |
| 22 | Staying , for the moment , with coloured illustrations , an interesting collection could be made of so-called ‘ nature printing ’ , which had a short life in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | Pakistan , which had a short time before recognized Azerbaijan 's independence , recognized the independence of the Central Asian republics and of the Russian Federation on Dec. 20 , following a three-week visit to the Soviet Union by the Minister of State for the Economy which ended on Dec. 18 . |
| 24 | In my day , you got a short back and sides , everyone got |
| 25 | She woke a short while later under the impression that she 'd dropped off at a cocktail party . |
| 26 | She was also hungry , very hungry , she acknowledged a short time later as she did justice to the duckling and fresh vegetables Roman had ordered . |
| 27 | She heard a short , derisive laugh . |
| 28 | She needed a short cultural briefing session for a Japanese employee newly arrived in Manchester . |
| 29 | She wore a short grey habit and behind her glasses , her eyes were as bright and dark as a robin 's . |
| 30 | She wore a short white cotton dress and flat sandals , her long legs tanned to a rich golden-brown . |