Example sentences of "a few days after [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst .
2 The invitation arrived just a few days after my trip to Denver in 1990 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 A few days after his arrival my father was received in audience .
7 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 .
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