Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a few day " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sanders ca n't be all that interested in the Plan if he takes a few days vacation rather than give the presentation . |
| 32 | It started a few days ago . |
| 33 | When he died a few days later Philip called off the invasion . |
| 34 | There was a pause , as if he was controlling his rage , before he answered , ‘ He died a few days after you left him . ’ |
| 35 | He died a few days after peace had been declared . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | In a cool sheltered position , with a damp-proof membrane , it took a few days to harden enough to build on . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | He said he had a few days ’ work for me , five hundred and expenses . |
| 40 | He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut . |
| 41 | They 'd had a , he had to give evidence he said , you know because , I mean he said a few days previously so they , financial problems as loaded as the family are nobody come to the rescue ! |
| 42 | ( Many of us take a few days off a year due to PMS , but about one in five women takes a fortnight or more ) . |