Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 32 | Brown and his team should be given a few days ’ extension to accomplish that . |
| 33 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 34 | Returned ‘ without any seeking or soliciting ’ on his part to Richard Cromwell 's Parliament in 1659 for Castle Rising , again on a double return , he was allowed to sit but was inactive until the election was overturned a few days before the dissolution in April . |
| 35 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 36 | Yes , I went on that voyage as cook , and the beauty of it was the boat was called the Happy Days ! |
| 37 | She had stayed a few days in a cheap hotel near the Bristol docks , too bruised mentally to contemplate going anywhere . |
| 38 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 39 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 40 | Further , as a result of his youth , he had not known the great days of English victories in France , although these had been concerned with the activities of his father , and he himself had been born in Bordeaux not long before his father had crossed to Spain to win his final victory . |
| 41 | All you will have done so far is spent the two days here , eat sandwiches , followed by , said a couple of jokes and , come to that , . |
| 42 | He said groups of 10 to 15 intellectuals were executed every few days . |
| 43 | Its severed head is found a few days later , wrapped in plastic , and used as a football by some local kids . |
| 44 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 45 | I was never able to take him up on this kindness , alas , since he and half the drugs squad were themselves arrested a few days later . |
| 46 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 47 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 48 | New account holders will receive their opening pack immediately , to be followed a few days later by their Route Seventeen Card . |
| 49 | In April Elsie Streek and Myrtle Mott entertained elderly and disabled people with a day of movement and display organised by Thameside Institute ; this was followed a few days later by an afternoon with the Woolwich Salvation Army Group . |
| 50 | The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart . |
| 51 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |
| 52 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 53 | Rain water is ideal , tap water needs to be left a few days to mature before stocking . |
| 54 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 55 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 56 | However , disagreements appeared less motivated by ideological differences than by issues of personality and style ( unlike the factionalism which had bedeviled the early days of the administration of Corazon Aquino , his presidential predecessor ) . |
| 57 | My term had ended a few days before the start of Crispin 's leave , so we had agreed to travel up separately , and meet on Moila itself . |
| 58 | Food consumption was recorded every 3 days and the animals were weighed weekly . |
| 59 | I heard that she was widowed a few days before the baby was born . |
| 60 | He was recaptured a few days later in Liverpool in an operation involving more than 60 police officers and a helicopter . |