Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 2 | To improve , she attended an art class in Sheffield for a short time . |
| 3 | Regent International Hotels , which was recently acquired by Four Seasons , has returned to London — where it owned the Dorchester for a short while — to open the 309-room , Regent Hotel , Marylebone . |
| 4 | The antenna also transmits to IRAS during the short interval the satellite is overhead . |
| 5 | There is , however , a tradition of an older Muftilik , advanced with some consistency , though no very great accuracy , by d'Ohsson and , among Turkish authors , by Ali Emiri Efendi in the short history of the Muftilik in the . |
| 6 | Sir Sidney Barton was apprehensive for my safety and suggested I should join him and Lord Airlie on a short hunting trip near the Awash Station . |
| 7 | The walk follows a winding road out of Ballycastle for a short while , but it is worth branching off at the sign for Kinbane Castle . |
| 8 | He returned to England for a short holiday in May 1929 . |
| 9 | It was agreed that as the European War was over I should take my family back to England for a short period of leave . |
| 10 | ‘ She told the doctor at the orphanage , ‘ If I 'm going to go to England for a short time I must be careful not to give too much of my love , but if I 'm going to be there for a long time I can give all the love I can ’ , ’ Mike says . |
| 11 | Two of the world 's finest guitarists , John Renbourne and Wizz Jones , arrive in Ireland for a short tour later this month . |
| 12 | Then , obviously wanting to leave us alone , our friend said that he had to go to the village of Lalatta for a short time ; he would be back in twenty minutes , by which time I would have to start making my way back to Lagrimone . |
| 13 | After two years national service he returned to Newark for a short period before moving to Peterborough in 1952 . |
| 14 | We also managed visits to Belfast and Douglas , Isle of Man , and had an interesting run down the east coast of Ireland with a short stay at the fishing village of Donaghadee . |
| 15 | The child was recovered in the abandoned Peugeot within a short time — still sleeping . |
| 16 | However , he also quoted a sentence from the speech by Lord Denning during the short debate on the motion : ‘ the words ‘ of his ’ are not only unnecessary but misleading . ’ |
| 17 | Great Britain , for example , has two chambers — the House of Commons and the House of Lords , but the power of the House of Lords is restricted to the possibility of delaying legislation passed by the Commons for a short period and trying to make amendments to bills , if the government is prepared to accept them . |
| 18 | He worked at Underwood Pit when they were came to this district and then they came into the Newthorpe Common district and er and then er we moved from Newthorpe Common and he went to Williamthorpe for a short while , only from erm probably eighteen months to two years , that 's as much as did there . |
| 19 | Regarding the regular use of Eddey 's Lane as a short cut for through traffic , Anthony Williams said the matter comes up frequently at parish council meetings . |
| 20 | Maybe one of you good bodies over the water would fax this to Elland Road with a short message stating who we are and what we want : - ) ) |
| 21 | Neile was returned for Ripon in the Short Parliament of April–May 1640 , and he was one of the Yorkshire gentry who signed the Yorkshire engagement for the support of the Royalist cause . |
| 22 | Singer Sonia on the short list for the Eurovision Song Contest I THINK that the public gets cross when people try to frighten them and they will just say : ‘ Stuff it , I 'm going shopping . ’ |
| 23 | Sigismund III of Poland actually enticed Marenzio to his new capital at Warsaw for a short period in 1595–6 and employed a number of Italian musicians , one of whom , Asprilio Pacelli ( 1570–1623 ) , published a book of madrigals ( Venice , 1601 ) ; but that was all . |
| 24 | Murdock worked at Soho for a short time and then in about 1779 he was sent to Cornwall as the firm 's chief mechanic and agent in all technical matters . |
| 25 | Diana climbed aboard one boat with children William and Harry for the short hop to their luxury yacht . |
| 26 | Looking relaxed and smiling , most of the family strolled down the gravel path from the church into the grounds of Sandringham for the short walk to the main house . |
| 27 | R v Secretary of State for Home Department , Ex parte Kuku ; CA ( Woolf , Nicholls and Staughton LJJ ) ; 28 Sept 1989 It is highly desirable that foreign nationals to whom r 10 of the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules HC 169 applies should not only by warned by the Home Office of the necessity under s 3(4) of the Immigration Act 1971 of obtaining a visa if seeking re-entry to the UK after a short visit abroad , but that that warning should take the form of a document attached to the foreign national 's passport , so there is no question of any misapprehension . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've included the UK on the short list , at this stage , ’ said Klepner , ‘ because Mark says that when the task force teams come to prepare the comparative cost studies in detail they will find that the economics of manufacturing certain new products will almost certainly favour production in the UK . |
| 29 | She had no idea of course how frequently she might bump into Ven in the short while in which she shared his suite . |
| 30 | 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 . |