Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] for a short [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The next day he and I went for a shorter walk and returned about 6 . |
| 3 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 4 | At one school I attended for a short while , very much for ‘ young ladies ’ , the headmistress descended unexpectedly on a class , with a visitor , and found it in uproar . |
| 5 | I slept for a short time but was woken when the coach stopped . |
| 6 | The first which establish themselves by chance in a particular spot , tend , by the mere occupancy of space , to exclude other species — the greater choke the smaller , the longest livers replace those which last for a shorter period , he more prolific gradually make themselves masters of the ground , which species multiplying more slowly would otherwise fill . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 9 | Equally there seem to be many people who stay for a short period , and then just move on . |
| 10 | ‘ We go for a short walk , non ? ’ |
| 11 | We continued for a short distance before pitching our tents in the boulder strewn tundra now below the elegant , ice-fluted summit of Chonku Chuli . |
| 12 | On the one hand , people look for a low instalment amount ( which of course tends to mean a relatively long repayment period ) ; on the other , they look for a short repayment period ( which tends to mean a relatively high instalment amount ) . |
| 13 | She was by that time too valuable a property to be junked , so they settled for a short suspension and a revised entry in the book . |
| 14 | In any event , before the disastrous situation which sent him to jail for a short period , I had one other encounter . |
| 15 | They halted for a short time near midafternoon to rest the horses . |
| 16 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 17 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 18 | It was unfortunate that he returned for a short time but this was necessary in order for him to complete training prior to deploying on an operational tour . ’ |
| 19 | Educated at Eton and then sent to Europe to improve himself , he worked for a short time in various jobs in ‘ the city ’ before becoming an ADC to the Governor of Australia . |
| 20 | Giles was held in high esteem in America and Europe , especially in Berlin , where he worked for a short time . |
| 21 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 22 | Perhaps i i it 'll encourage us to look for a shorter route through to the , the , the solution . |