Example sentences of "[art] [adj] few day [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester . |
| 2 | ‘ For the first few days they were all a bit subdued , ’ Bob said . |
| 3 | Well for the first few days I found enough energy to take an occasional dip in the pool and play a leisurely game of bowls . |
| 4 | The teachers were very helpful and caring , and for the first few days I thought I was getting on quite well with my new classmates . |
| 5 | To her disappointment Nahum only seemed to visit the old and sick , and after the first few days he no longer took her with him , having suffered embarrassment each time he introduced his new wife whose youth could n't be disguised . |
| 6 | In the past few days they have detected a slide in that support . |
| 7 | In the past year they have lost a bishop in a love-child affair but over the past few days they had more faith in prayer than in their politicians when it came to saving the Digital computer plant . |
| 8 | For the past few days he had brought security into her child 's world of distorted perspectives and half comprehended fears . |
| 9 | Over the past few days he had fished a little with Burkett , been to Crosthwaite Church , laid a light siege to the maid Christine , cast out a few nightlines about the town and done a calculated amount of promenading . |
| 10 | ‘ And , while I appreciate your charitable intent in trying to comfort me for Lotta 's absence from my bed , I tell you once more that the time when I might have needed consolation for Lotta 's tricks has long since passed , and the fact that I 've chosen to live the life of a monk for the past six months is because until the past few days I have felt no desire to give in to the temptations paraded before me . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm very much up and down but the past few days I 've amazed myself . |
| 12 | And over the past few days it had developed an infuriating habit of wandering unerringly back to the subject of Adam Burns . |
| 13 | But for the past few days there had been continuous rain , and the forecast was for more bad weather to come . |
| 14 | Now er over the last few days we 've been er talking quite a lot about er that statue you know the one that 's down by er down by Marks and Spencers that 's the best way to describe where it is the leaf stand the er the one that looks like a tulip and water dribbles down the side of it . |
| 15 | ‘ But within the last few days we have received a letter from our insurance assessor that gives us fresh hope . |
| 16 | We have read the various articles which have appeared in the Press over the last few days which accuse us of cheating in the recent Test series against England . |
| 17 | And true enough , in the last few days they had grown much closer to each other . |
| 18 | In the last few days they have behaved impeccably and had tried to get FIDE to give the rights to the new organisation . ’ |
| 19 | I was also surprised to hear that during the last few days her Premium Bond had won £5,000 . |
| 20 | The last few days he had been getting on her nerves . |
| 21 | But I 've noticed that in the last few days you 've been careful not even to come close tome . |
| 22 | Erm , I know that over the last few days you 've gone through the process of writing prioritised notes , so I 'm not going to go through that process with you . |
| 23 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |
| 24 | If an egg has been discharged from the ovary during the last few days it will now be on its way through the tubes . |
| 25 | The message I got was that the last few days it did n't matter a bugger what it cost but we were in desperate straights to get in stock . |
| 26 | er , if , if it was , if it was the last few days it was probably David |
| 27 | Over the last few days I have listened , with fingers crossed , to Conservative politicians saying , yes … of course … they are always happy to reconsider any policy because they want what is best for the country and all members of our community . |
| 28 | For the last few days she had seen them , not as her parents but as two hating individuals carrying on a private war behind screens . |
| 29 | During the last few days she had been sent a poison pen letter , had her life turned upside down , and now she was in the arms of the man whom she had been absolutely determined to divorce . |
| 30 | Over the next few days we went paddling everywhere we could , starting with mud and graduating to small and then larger puddles . |