Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] [art] short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite a lot to read I mean I read a short story last week . |
| 2 | Erm I say I enclose a short story for your consideration . |
| 3 | The New York office wants you to do a short course . ’ |
| 4 | Finally Miss Thorne refused to wait any longer and told them to take a short break while she left the hall to make a phone call to Hillbrook Farm . |
| 5 | One presumes this was to help him keep the short ball down when it was bowled at the line of middle to leg stump . |
| 6 | There are people in Hammond Drive whose only objection to this closure , I have been informed , is because it will stop them taking a short cut through Loraine Crescent . |
| 7 | When she finished he gave a short laugh and bowed his head . |
| 8 | With what seemed super-human strength and control he drew the short sword to the left , then back to the right , his intestines spilling out onto the cobbles . |
| 9 | ‘ Two people saw you holding a short conversation with Dominic . |
| 10 | She felt him flip the short skirt up at the back , and jerk her knickers down to her knees . |
| 11 | Half seriously , half as a joke he had asked her to write a short piece for him on what she had termed in conversation with him ‘ wasted women ’ . |
| 12 | If the hon. Gentleman genuinely thinks that services that are contracted out are of lower quality than those done in house , I invite him to make the short journey between the London boroughs of Lambeth and Wandsworth . |
| 13 | We 're going to give you a , a situation handout , or a , a handout which describes a situation , and we 're going to ask you to construct a short press release on the basis of that situation . |
| 14 | Does it have a short time span or does it last over a period of time ? |
| 15 | Bethany Megan Robinson says residents of Hammond Drive who object to the closure of Loraine Crescent do so because it stops them taking a short cut . |
| 16 | have you got a short skirt here ? |