Example sentences of "a few days [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few days of his election , Barbarossa was crowned on the 9th March 1152 . |
| 2 | Within a few days of his election he already knew that the way to realize this ‘ new Pentecost ’ was an Ecumenical Council . |
| 3 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 4 | Within a few days of his visit you receive details of two sous-chefs , both well versed in haute cuisine , both having trained with chefs of international repute , and both now ready to manage their own kitchen . |
| 5 | A few days after his birth , as she pulled herself to life and became indissolubly bound by bonds of tender passion to the helpless being she had created , she had wanted to kill him lovingly herself . |
| 6 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 7 | A few days after his consecration the new Archbishop conducted a formal enquiry and pronounced , as Convocation had already done , that the King 's first marriage was invalid because the Pope had no power to allow him to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 8 | A few days after his arrival my father was received in audience . |
| 9 | The freedom , has , of course , been criticised — especially after the ferocious attack on Lord Goddard made by Mr Bernard Levin in " The Times " a few days after his death . |
| 10 | Only a few days before his state 's 40th anniversary celebrations , he has been obliged to accept a deal permitting several thousand of its citizens to flee to the capitalist Federal Republic . |
| 11 | ‘ Teach me to live , that I may dread/The grave as little as my bed ’ , he had written ; in this spirit he carried his shroud in a portmanteau and put it on a few days before his death at Longleat in 1711 , which his friends considered to have been advanced by his fasting and mortifications . |
| 12 | A few days before his death Sviridenko 's investigation supposedly led him to a very senior government official involved in purchasing art works . |
| 13 | Josselin 's reputation is based on the detailed diary which he kept from 5 August 1644 until a few days before his death . |
| 14 | ‘ I think that the young painters are more intelligent than the others , the old ones can see in me only a disastrous rival ’ , he said to his son in a letter written only a few days before his death . |
| 15 | Muge , who had accused government members of being involved in Ouko 's murder , had been threatened by Labour Minister Peter Okondo a few days before his death ; Okondo later resigned from the government . |
| 16 | It is understood that a few days before his death the young airman shot down a Dornier bomber . |
| 17 | His son Carl later recalled that a few days before his father 's death there was already a terrible stench of decomposition , the advanced state of which apparently made an autopsy impossible . |