Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] short [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped after a short while and said ‘ this is nonsense — I ca n't learn any more of this sort of thing by two o'clock — I must just do a prose right through and see how I get on ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
| 7 | She had to provide her practice outfit which consisted of a short skirt of any colour , just above knee length , with a blouse . |
| 8 | She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse . |
| 9 | This montage involved a combination of movement which progressed from a short solo performance to interweaving by the sextet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He left her at the large ornate gate , and she walked up the short drive to the front door . |
| 12 | No , she decided after a short reflection . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She pulled on a short silk nightdress — a rather extravagant Christmas present from one of her sisters — brushed her hair until the long dark strands gleamed , then walked slowly over to the window . |
| 15 | She was suffering from sunstroke and she died within a short time . |
| 16 | Alexander tried to steady Muscovites by visiting the city in September 1855 , but his visit was offset by the effect on public opinion of the Westernizers ' laments for Granovskii , who died after a short illness on 4 October . |
| 17 | The first chief justice was John Jay , who resigned after a short time due to his belief that the job would never amount to anything . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't apologise , ’ she said with a short laugh . |
| 19 | ‘ But you make me so angry , ’ she said on a short laugh , ‘ when anyone with half a brain can see what is going on ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I get homesick all the time , ’ she said after a short visit home to see her brother Lawrence , a joiner in Derry . |
| 21 | It could seat twenty passengers on rattan cane seats , who boarded by a short ladder over the sides ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They drove up the short drive , past a lodge with a roof that looked in need of mending , good grass fields and post-and-rail fencing like broken teeth after years of neglect . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The door closed behind them , and they went down the short path . |
| 26 | They halted for a short time near midafternoon to rest the horses . |
| 27 | They travelled by a short stairway from the morning room , up into a narrow corridor carved with horses ' heads . |
| 28 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 29 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 30 | He turned towards the short passage on the left of the companionway , at the end of which lay the skipper 's cabin . |