Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact he confirmed it so strongly that we had pulled ourselves together for a few days . |
| 2 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
| 3 | We 'd sure love to put you up for a few days . ’ |
| 4 | It will no doubt sort itself out in a few days . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll ask you again in a few days ’ time , ’ he said , ‘ and remember , it is n't me you 're refusing , but God ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Tell me how old the stones are , and I 'll ring you again in a few days . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was hoping Kenny could put me up for a few days until I 'd sorted things out with my parents . |
| 8 | had this one on for a few days . |
| 9 | As the group grew to 2,000 people I still knew the key people and was able to approach them even in the latter days when I was one of many . ’ |
| 10 | If he insists on calling back , ask him to hold on , and then play a blaring radio down the receiver — that should put him off for a few days . |
| 11 | We 're going to put him up for a few days . |
| 12 | ‘ You can leave him behind for a few days . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 14 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 15 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
| 16 | He left them there for a few days , checking that the wasps still kept returning to their burrows . |
| 17 | It 's a wonderful opportunity , please do n't discard it out of hand because of pride or pique , just think it over for a few days and let me know your decision when you are ready . ’ |
| 18 | I felt that if I could get into a regular habit-forming routine then I would be able to keep it up beyond the 30 days . |
| 19 | Well if they come round to ours this year I 'll invite them in I 'll take them to my basement and I 'll lock 'em up for a few days . |
| 20 | Did one yesterday for a man who was due to be executed today , erm , I do n't know whether he was or not , but he probably in a few days time . |
| 21 | That 's how they carried it out in the old days , in every quarry . |
| 22 | Erm and and and we could take it back to the hundred days episode when the great powers have all er decided to er er to prevent Napoleon from making a comeback in France . |
| 23 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |
| 24 | when we send it back in a few days fitting , this job I says we 'll want it early in the morning and you can have it in the afternoon , but we were going to spend the day in Liverpool , but you 're dad said , I 'm not being round all those shops all day , so I said ooh no ! |
| 25 | Leave it there for a few days , preferably in wet weather . |
| 26 | In a beautifully simple piece of writing Achebe transports us back to the earliest days of colonialism . |