Example sentences of "[prep] a short time he " in BNC.

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1 After a short time he called back .
2 After a short time he asked if he could have a whisky and soda , and when the ingredients were brought tried to pour a drink for the King .
3 For a short time he was buried at Cambridge at the Military Cemetery , but since then I 've checked and he has been sent , his body sent back home .
4 In a short time he was going to get very sick .
5 To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst .
6 In a short time he became disillusioned , not with the movement itself but with the P.N.M. leadership .
7 Now in a short time he would be gone , and the era that had begun in the 1960S with the triumvirate of Harold Wilson , George Brown and myself would be at an end .
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