Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] day [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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1 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
2 | After a few days he is well enough to travel and one of Leavitt 's Willys safari cars takes them home . |
3 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
4 | After a few days I was allowed downstairs and began to eat proper meals again , and two weeks later I started back at school . |
5 | For a few days I was too cowardly to tell Shadwell of Pyke 's offer , and that I was not going to do the Moliere . |
6 | Then for a few days she was quiet . |
7 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
8 | Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’ |
9 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
10 | Within a few days he was a pitiful sight , white-faced with huge puffy red-rimmed eyes , his thin hair plastered to his head with sweat and the comfortable roundness of his baby tummy melted away . |
11 | I had to wait until the female was bulging-ripe , so within a few days she was brooding . |
12 | In the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language , and in a few days I was able to make conversation with the island people . |