Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] days i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I WRITE in appreciation of Broadgreen Hospital for the wonderful attention and care accorded to me from all the staff during the five days I spent there . |
| 2 | After a few days I started to develop backache in the lumbar region so acute that I could hardly move . |
| 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 | But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature . |
| 6 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 7 | so like after a few days I can her saying , oh , I 'm gon na have to go , I 'm gon na have to feed dog and they 're having it put down , they 're having it put down . |
| 8 | It was one of the best days I was to have . |
| 9 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’ |
| 12 | For a few days I had even considered calling the shop Trumper and Salmon , but dropped that idea when I realised that would only tie me in with Charlie for life . |
| 13 | In the pre-machinery days I used to start in August to hand knit gloves for my two school-boy sons . |
| 14 | ‘ In the early days I 'd say David was writing about 90 per cent of the songs . |
| 15 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ In the early days I always dreamed of going to the Olympics , doing well and then eventually turning professional . |
| 17 | In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position . |
| 18 | well in the early days I only got er , what was , what was your , yours a quarter horse power motor was n't it ? |
| 19 | And of course if you 've got any questions in the two days I 'm not just going to er at you all the time you know it 's participation is this so any questions that you have any comments you want to make please feel free to make them at any time it 's not going to throw me . |
| 20 | Former Top 40 presenter Tony Blackburn said : ‘ In the old days I think it meant something to be the Christmas No. 1 and there would be great excitement in the run-up to the last chart . |
| 21 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
| 22 | Yes , in the old days I always made his appointments for him . " |
| 23 | ‘ In a few days I 'll have some plan . |
| 24 | In a few days I will send for you again . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ In a few days I 'll be your father , and I 'll punish you just like that , as often as necessary ! ’ |
| 28 | Particularly , ’ she added cuttingly , ‘ since the few days I have been here I have found disagreeable in the extreme . ’ |
| 29 | The botanical gardens are bare and there are few signs of the famous flower festival exhibitions in the cold grey wet transition between winter and spring : on the four days I was there it rained every day , finally removing the last traces of soot-encrusted snow from the pavements but leaving everything streaked with a post-winter dampness . |