Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for a short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I discovered he was teething — the sucking made his gums sore so he could only do it for a short time . |
| 2 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 3 | My father went mad and I think he actually hated me for a short while . |
| 4 | Yes , said Sister , Mrs Downes had been remarkably lucky , really ; and , yes , Sergeant Lewis could see her for a short while . |
| 5 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 6 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |
| 7 | These will protect you for a short time against tetanus . |
| 8 | had to have one for a short while , she was quite young and I , we 'd only just moved here and I took her to the vet the used to be in Sandhurst , they said it was a bee sting , they put purple stuff on it |
| 9 | Pilot Stephen Grey was unhurt apart from a minor neck injury which hospitalised him for a short period . |
| 10 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 11 | That 's how I think of it : as my home , even though I only see it for a short time every year . |