Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] few days [pers pn] " 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 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For the next few days we made love with a kindliness and consideration we had never experienced before . |
| 8 | For the next few days she had carried the tiny dragon everywhere . |
| 9 | For the next few days she refused to speak to anyone , even me . |
| 10 | ‘ For the next few days he is going to be a bit sore . |
| 11 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
| 12 | During the next few days we lost my pony , two of our riding mules and five more baggage mules . |
| 13 | During the next few days I lived in terror , doors locked , ready to fly — to leave through the front door if Aunt Louise came to the back , or out of the back door if I saw her coming down the path . |
| 14 | During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia . |
| 15 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 16 | During the next few days I went about my duties with propriety and correctness . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If an egg has been discharged from the ovary during the last few days it will now be on its way through the tubes . |
| 19 | ‘ But within the last few days we have received a letter from our insurance assessor that gives us fresh hope . |
| 20 | But unless the children 's parents raise twenty thousand pounds within the next few days it will close . |
| 21 | In the next few days you will be briefed by your managers who will be picking up issues specific to your particular part of the organisation and who will act as feedback channels for your questions and concerns . |
| 22 | And it is expected that in the next few days she will address the military 's other grievances . |
| 23 | In the next few days she had kept speaking of their child as ‘ my son ’ , with a possessiveness that struck him as bestial and prescient . |
| 24 | In the next few days he was busy making size , painting signs and colouring the room and ‘ hooking . ’ |
| 25 | Unless there is news of a signing for us in the next few days I am seriously think of saying fuck off to Leeds . |
| 26 | And true enough , in the last few days they had grown much closer to each other . |
| 27 | In the last few days they have behaved impeccably and had tried to get FIDE to give the rights to the new organisation . ’ |
| 28 | But I 've noticed that in the last few days you 've been careful not even to come close tome . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |