Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] a short [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stopped after a short while and said ‘ this is nonsense — I ca n't learn any more of this sort of thing by two o'clock — I must just do a prose right through and see how I get on ’ . |
| 2 | Here is what she wrote : Beware the feline of the sea ; lest might happen to you what happened to me ; When once I booked for a short break stay , I found it impossible to get away — Seacat did not turn up to-day . |
| 3 | My mother volunteered to look after the luggage while my father and I went for a short walk . |
| 4 | At one school I attended for a short while , very much for ‘ young ladies ’ , the headmistress descended unexpectedly on a class , with a visitor , and found it in uproar . |
| 5 | I slept for a short time but was woken when the coach stopped . |
| 6 | I stood in a short sling and laybacked over the bulge on a jammed stone into a smooth scoop . |
| 7 | No , she decided after a short reflection . |
| 8 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 9 | She pulled on a short silk nightdress — a rather extravagant Christmas present from one of her sisters — brushed her hair until the long dark strands gleamed , then walked slowly over to the window . |
| 10 | She was suffering from sunstroke and she died within a short time . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't apologise , ’ she said with a short laugh . |
| 12 | ‘ But you make me so angry , ’ she said on a short laugh , ‘ when anyone with half a brain can see what is going on ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I get homesick all the time , ’ she said after a short visit home to see her brother Lawrence , a joiner in Derry . |
| 14 | We continued for a short distance before pitching our tents in the boulder strewn tundra now below the elegant , ice-fluted summit of Chonku Chuli . |
| 15 | She was by that time too valuable a property to be junked , so they settled for a short suspension and a revised entry in the book . |
| 16 | They halted for a short time near midafternoon to rest the horses . |
| 17 | They travelled by a short stairway from the morning room , up into a narrow corridor carved with horses ' heads . |
| 18 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 19 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 20 | It consisted of a short platform , a tin shack , and a set of buffers up against the hedge which bordered the main road . |
| 21 | It was unfortunate that he returned for a short time but this was necessary in order for him to complete training prior to deploying on an operational tour . ’ |
| 22 | He began with a short discussion of the planned scheme , the construction of the line and its early financial difficulties . |
| 23 | Educated at Eton and then sent to Europe to improve himself , he worked for a short time in various jobs in ‘ the city ’ before becoming an ADC to the Governor of Australia . |
| 24 | Giles was held in high esteem in America and Europe , especially in Berlin , where he worked for a short time . |
| 25 | You could n't say he lost by a short head — he was n't even in the frame ! |
| 26 | ‘ It started as a short project for an article but the whole subject took off and turned into a major research field . ’ |
| 27 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 28 | ‘ OK — OK , you 've made your point , ’ he said with a short bark of rueful laughter . |
| 29 | ‘ But do ye really think , ’ he said after a short pause , ‘ it 's wise to allow a young person to make a decision of that sort ? |