Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [adv] short " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 2 | After studying the detailed entries in the parish registers of a group of farming settlements in the Vale of York from 1777 onwards , Dr B. A. Holderness has concluded that , ‘ The picture which emerges is of village communities refreshed by an influx from similar settlements lying at a comparatively short distance away . ’ |
| 3 | I did not try one with the full sixty degrees , which is almost a full airbrake setting and would doubtless produce a still slower stall speed , but the Bölkow is obviously capable of getting into a very short field if required . |
| 4 | The second item of research was that undertaken by Morrison and MacIntyre ( 1969 , also quoted in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) who had found that ‘ changes in sensitivity towards pupil/ teacher relationships developed during initial training were reversed as a result of full time teaching within a relatively short time ’ . |
| 5 | I remember a graphic example of this when I was working for a blessedly short period as a Russian interpreter in Berlin in 1946 . |