Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana and I spent a few days in London again before travelling to Spain . |
| 2 | Shortly before moving to London , I spent a few days visiting ancient and mystical sites in Cornwall . |
| 3 | Before I left for San Francisco I spent a few days wandering the considerable length and the decidedly inconsiderable breadth of the Canal , newest of the major approaches to Balboa 's ocean . |
| 4 | As a soldier stationed on the South Coast at the time of D- Day , I spent a few days in London where I attended the Proms . |
| 5 | She died a few days later . |
| 6 | The one hundred and sixty strong Pioneers left R A F Brize Norton early this afternoon ; they 'll be joining Major Colin Code who went a few days ago . |
| 7 | She looked at her friend and wanted to ask whether she had a few days to spare , because that was how long any description of him would take . |
| 8 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 9 | Oh she said a few days ago about some bungalow or something he 's he 's helping to build . |
| 10 | I sent a copy of the Minister 's letter to Mrs. X and she responded a few days later on 20 October . |
| 11 | We spent a few days talking about our friends in Moscow and Leningrad . |
| 12 | ‘ We spent a few days on manoeuvres . |
| 13 | About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District . |
| 14 | ‘ We spoke a few days ago , ’ said the voice . |
| 15 | And then we stayed a few days in London and we went to the Baths and we went to the zoo and we went to all the science , by either the old trams or the first of the buses that Cos they complete with tram-riding and that was rather exciting in London , seeing the all the top hats and people in coats , tails and things . |
| 16 | When they met a few days later in Benghazi they quarrelled and the Zliten boy knifed the Zuwayi in the arm . |
| 17 | It can not be simply the distortions of hindsight that cast Alison Kraemer in the role of spoiler , for the effect was to throw us all into a foul temper , heightening the existing tensions until they exploded a few days later with devastating results . |
| 18 | The news was relayed to the restive citizens that they had a few days ' respite . |
| 19 | He returned a few days later to meet the proprietors and Bernard , recognizing there was a limit to their own international expansion at this stage , and ever keen to find outlets for the masses of cloth being printed , immediately proposed to Trevaskis that they worked together , not in competition . |
| 20 | He returned a few days later a broken man . |
| 21 | In August one year he spent a few days holiday at Saxon-les-Bains in the Rhone Valley , where he had an interest in a fruit preserving factory . |
| 22 | It started a few days ago . |
| 23 | When he died a few days later Philip called off the invasion . |
| 24 | There was a pause , as if he was controlling his rage , before he answered , ‘ He died a few days after you left him . ’ |
| 25 | He died a few days after peace had been declared . |
| 26 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 27 | In a cool sheltered position , with a damp-proof membrane , it took a few days to harden enough to build on . |
| 28 | It took a few days for the butis to decide to employ me , since I clearly was not about to join the Community , but I kept coming back and mucking in and it just sort of happened . |
| 29 | He said he had a few days ’ work for me , five hundred and expenses . |
| 30 | He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut . |