Example sentences of "[prep] a few days [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 2 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
| 3 | After a few days I was allowed downstairs and began to eat proper meals again , and two weeks later I started back at school . |
| 4 | For a few days I was too cowardly to tell Shadwell of Pyke 's offer , and that I was not going to do the Moliere . |
| 5 | Then for a few days she was quiet . |
| 6 | For a few days there was a swirl of conversation in the camp about the fire and its likely cause , and then the talk slipped . |
| 7 | For a few days there was a period of uncertainty , as Huw waited to see if the Brotherhood were planning another attack upon him — and the Inner Circle of the Guild waited to see if any steps would be taken by the Dockers ' Union , or by the police , in defence of the young man . |
| 8 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
| 9 | Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’ |
| 10 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
| 11 | Within a few days he was a pitiful sight , white-faced with huge puffy red-rimmed eyes , his thin hair plastered to his head with sweat and the comfortable roundness of his baby tummy melted away . |
| 12 | I had to wait until the female was bulging-ripe , so within a few days she was brooding . |
| 13 | Adela fixed up a meeting between the king and archbishop , and in a few days everything was arranged . |
| 14 | In the evening a teacher arrived to help me learn the language , and in a few days I was able to make conversation with the island people . |