Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] [art] short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After continuing to Paignton , the party changed platforms for a short steam hauled run over the scenic Paignton & Dartmouth Railway , operated by the Dart Valley Railway Company , and a river cruise up the Dart with a difference . |
| 2 | They passed it on 19th April when it obtained the Royal Assent and became law with the short title , The Public Offices Extension Act 1859 . |
| 3 | They feared that if there was another depression the unions would be left defenceless if they abandoned traditional practices which preserved jobs in the short term . |
| 4 | Holland represented Norfolk in the Short Parliament of 1640 , but , wounded by attacks on the sincerity of his religious beliefs by some of his countrymen , he chose to sit for Castle Rising in the Long Parliament , having inherited a family loyalty to the Howards . |
| 5 | ‘ What 'll we do ? ’ asked Tim after a short silence ; even he had to admit that a lady would not go away leaving behind all her credit cards and a wad of paper money . |
| 6 | The final four chapters ( Ch. 11–14 ) examine the phases in the political and social re-organisation of sexuality in the twentieth century : in relationship to the weakening of the authoritarian consensus ; as part of the social restructuring attendant on the growth of the welfare state ; in terms of the transforming effects on long-term changes in the social structure , which gave rise to the short era of ‘ permissiveness ’ ; and finally the last chapter offers a brief description of the political and moral conjuncture in which the book was written . |
| 7 | Police in Cam gave chase for a short distance but were easily shaken off by the robbers stolen Sierra Cosworth . |
| 8 | Passages [ 17 ] and [ 18 ] are respectively the unemended and emended versions of a short extract from Chapter 17 of Samuel Butler 's The Way of All Flesh ( changes of wording have been italicized ) The extract concerns the birth of the book 's hero , to the younger son of George Pontifex : [ 17 ] Now , therefore , that the good news [ viz of the birth of Theobald Pontifex 's son ] came it was doubly welcome and caused as much delight at Elmhurst as in Woburn Square [ it caused dismay ] , where the John Pontifexes were now living . |
| 9 | At the time of Picasso 's removal to the Left Bank he accompanied Braque on a short trip to Le Havre , and in the early summer of the next year Braque called by on Picasso at Céret . |
| 10 | We had time for a short walk on a rocky path before I had to return to Athens . |