Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun] at short " in BNC.
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1 | Mendes rescued a Chichester revival of London Assurance at short notice and turned it into a hit . |
2 | There were nearly panic stations at Diss as Towerlands ' Andy Cook was forced to drop out because of flu , but Herbert Taylor , the County 's Senior Deputy President , managed to haul in David Baxter at short notice from his own Clacton-on-Sea club . |
3 | Most of the mothers were nurses who worked in a civilian hospital , but were part-time reservists in the US Army and were posted to Saudi Arabia at short notice in the run-up to the war . |
4 | There was a surprising amount of turn and lift so early in the year and when Gooch had reached 75 , he gloved a catch to Paul Johnson at short gully . |
5 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |