Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] for a short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father went mad and I think he actually hated me for a short while . |
| 2 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Pilot Stephen Grey was unhurt apart from a minor neck injury which hospitalised him for a short period . |
| 5 | 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 . |