Example sentences of "[vb past] in [art] short " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Any interesting or amusing incidents , photographed or recounted in a short article will be welcome . |
| 3 | The terror bound her chest so that her breath came in the short , dry , painful gasps of a dying asthmatic . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | They stood in the single child 's bedroom and Molly joined in a short , silent tribute to the Ketterings ' marriage , whilst some large , blundering insect bumped against a window that had been long dosed . |
| 7 | Dead birds were to be seen everywhere , and live ones , in quarrelling flocks , feeding on the burst stacks and blown seed-corn ; stabbing the cheeses that shone in the short winter grass ; pecking at the dried skeins of fish ; fluttering trapped beneath torn scraps of net . |
| 8 | The father-of-three was caught after four of the 800 workers who paid into the City Council Life Insurance Welfare Scheme died in a short space of time . |
| 9 | Its proximity to Austria , just a few miles away , and to Lindau , the old German city on the opposite shore reached in a short journey by direct lake steamer , has cast its influence and given it a faintly cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 10 | Gradually , Haslemere started to make inroads into the Ewshot half and good interplay between the forwards resulted in a short corner from which Hamilton was unlucky to see his well-struck shot hit the post . |
| 11 | Frontier checks and controls would have to be rationalized and relaxed in the short term . |
| 12 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |