Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] short [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A medallion in Hughes Hall portrays her with short hair , an aquiline nose , and a determined chin . |