Example sentences of "in a short [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a short distance you can travel from lush tropical forest to frozen pools and ice-water scree . |
| 2 | And we have done something about it , grasped the mettle , and I believe that in a short while we 're going to solve this problem , and it wo n't be thanks to you and the Conservative Party . |
| 3 | With that , Dick changed course , and in a short while they came up from behind the Shuttle . |
| 4 | All sounds from outside were muffled because of the dock being partly below ground level , set into the slope of the bank , but in a short while I heard the sound of a car door slamming and after that the noise of an engine starting up and being driven away . |
| 5 | Likewise , if instead of saying , ‘ there is a patient outside ’ , I could say ( out of role ) , ‘ In a short while I will be a patient coming to the consultant 's office — how do you want me to play the role ? |
| 6 | In a short while she would be installed in a quiet hotel room where she could get on with her work , and try to forget about the arrival of that frightening letter . |
| 7 | In a short study it is impossible to deal in depth with the vastly complex web of politics that surrounded Barbarossa ; a glance at the list of popes shows just how complex the situation was ; hardly had any pope become established and negotiations opened , than another was taking his place . |
| 8 | In a short time we were thoroughly drenched and landed in Jura among what felt like " buckets of water . " |
| 9 | It always was a surprise , the pure majesty of the scene approaching the Alps , more especially in moonlight ; it seemed odd to me , whilst devouring this special panorama that in a short time we would be raining all the horrors of war down on people not seriously willing to fight . |
| 10 | In a short time it will bear clouted cream laid over it . |
| 11 | In a short time he was going to get very sick . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In a short time he became disillusioned , not with the movement itself but with the P.N.M. leadership . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In a short time you 'll receive your new multipoint cashcard , and just a few days later a Great Escapes brochure displaying over 180 excellent hotels to choose from , together with your two FREE Great Escapes vouchers . |