Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] short " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |
| 2 | He dropped us in a short street which led to the entrance to the Taj . |
| 3 | My father went mad and I think he actually hated me for a short while . |
| 4 | To keep the look simple , we teamed it with a short cotton knit skirt , £36 , SML , from Fenn Wright & Manson , but it would look equally good with jeans or leggings . |
| 5 | David followed her up the short path between the borders of spring flowers . |
| 6 | Eventually we worked out where the line had been and followed it for a short way up to a demolished bridge . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He and took me on a short sight-seeing trip to the Qutab Minar . |
| 9 | She took them by a short cut to the Weinbaum Canal . |
| 10 | The ‘ theatre ’ ran parallel to the ward and we reached it through a short , glass-enclosed passageway . |
| 11 | Only 40% thought that there will be a united Ireland one day but few expected it in the short term — 16% expected it to come about in 25 years , 13% in 50 years and 11% in 100 years . |
| 12 | Knee and hip joints were creaking and it seemed that the prophecy made by doctors forty years before , that one day my legs and hips — the war left me with a short , stiff left leg — would really begin to seize up , was about to come true . |
| 13 | Pilot Stephen Grey was unhurt apart from a minor neck injury which hospitalised him for a short period . |
| 14 | Taking the oddly shaped metal comb from the pocket of his shirt , he ran it through the short oily hair on top of his head . |
| 15 | Corbett entrusted him with a short letter in which he asked the King to supply simple answers to what Corbett considered simple questions . |