Example sentences of "a [adj] days he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
| 4 | Within a few days he had received some opinions on it which he transmitted to Pons immediately . |
| 5 | After a few days he is well enough to travel and one of Leavitt 's Willys safari cars takes them home . |
| 6 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 7 | You 'll take him home with you to avoid gossip , and then in a few days he 'll be fit enough to leave the country . ’ |
| 8 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 9 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 10 | When my mother and I called on him he said that if we could wait a few days he would find the right frame and have it stove-enamelled black . |
| 11 | In a few days he will catch a boat for South America . |
| 12 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 13 | He became ill , and after a few days he died in my arms . |
| 14 | His hotel room had three beds , and for a few days he shared it with two German boys , students , who had enormous rucksacks and bulky guidebooks , and who were eager for Tim to go round with them . |
| 15 | He told us that , at the time was unemployed , and within a few days he even gave the date and place where she signed on for unemployment benefit . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In a few days he would release him . |