Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] short " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 2 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 3 | He headed for a short , thick clump of maidenhair fern . |
| 4 | Looking pink and refreshed after a short break , Mr Smith strode into the pokey committee rooms to a rabble-rousing welcome . |
| 5 | In order to test these predictions we need to compare the size of the latent inhibition effect found after a long exposure — test interval ( which we may take to be 24 h or more ) with that found after a short interval ( when conditioning follows exposure immediately or after a few minutes ) . |
| 6 | I stopped after a short while and said ‘ this is nonsense — I ca n't learn any more of this sort of thing by two o'clock — I must just do a prose right through and see how I get on ’ . |
| 7 | She drew in a short quick breath , hating what she was going to do yet knowing that it was unavoidable in her quest for the truth . |
| 8 | Any interesting or amusing incidents , photographed or recounted in a short article will be welcome . |
| 9 | I realised that that was an absurdity … after the evidence that India could not be part of the same political system , I still believed for a short time that an Empire of positions — that is to say the possession of points of communication around the globe — gave a significance to this country and a tenable and lasting position . |
| 10 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 11 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 12 | Yeah , oh cos that 's when she said Frank , Frank only came for a short while or something ? |
| 13 | They drove up the short drive , past a lodge with a roof that looked in need of mending , good grass fields and post-and-rail fencing like broken teeth after years of neglect . |
| 14 | Proof came within a short time when in November 1983 more than five hundred deaf people from all over the country joined other disabled groups at Westminster in an impressive lobby in support of a Private Member 's Bill , introduced by Robert Wareing MP , which sought to make discrimination against all disabled people illegal . |
| 15 | The terror bound her chest so that her breath came in the short , dry , painful gasps of a dying asthmatic . |
| 16 | Every nerve smouldered on a short fuse . |
| 17 | Both had pars at the 37th - their third visit of the day to the first hole — and the end came at the short second where Faldo hit a seven-iron to three feet to break the deadlock with a two to a three . |
| 18 | Another birdie came at the short sixth , a downhill putt of 8ft , but a bogey five at the ninth , taking him out in 36 , undermined any move up the leaderboard . |
| 19 | Stewart 's only birdie came at the short fourth , where her ball agonisingly finished on the lip of the hole . |
| 20 | With the Italian press still buzzing with the story of the Grand Canal assault , Denis Law 's brother Joe arrived for a short holiday from Aberdeen . |
| 21 | He turned towards the short passage on the left of the companionway , at the end of which lay the skipper 's cabin . |
| 22 | She had to provide her practice outfit which consisted of a short skirt of any colour , just above knee length , with a blouse . |
| 23 | Her top half was light and frilly ; her bottom half consisted of a short , black skirt and plump legs tapering to absurdly small shoes . |
| 24 | It consisted of a short platform , a tin shack , and a set of buffers up against the hedge which bordered the main road . |
| 25 | She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse . |
| 26 | In the first bedroom a door opened onto a short flight of rickety steps that led to an attic . |
| 27 | Here at the fault a ventilation shaft was being put up to the surface where it linked with a short low drift driven into the boulder clay near the foot of Kernal Crag . |
| 28 | Cranston , the wineskin now surprisingly empty , only replied with a short stream of belches . |
| 29 | Suppose we say that the causal circumstance for the house fire consisted in the short circuit , the location of inflammable material in contact with the relevant conductor , and the presence of oxygen . |
| 30 | Asked by Crown counsel how Aindow had regained his balance , taken aim and fired in the short space of time available , the accused replied ‘ I do n't know ’ . |