Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a [det] days [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His hotel room had three beds , and for a few days he shared it with two German boys , students , who had enormous rucksacks and bulky guidebooks , and who were eager for Tim to go round with them . |
| 2 | Derek Hegarty says it 's been tougher than they expected because the winds up in Scotland were very strong and after a few days they had troubles with their knees but they 've managed to keep going … |
| 3 | He became ill , and after a few days he died in my arms . |
| 4 | But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | He told us that , at the time was unemployed , and within a few days he even gave the date and place where she signed on for unemployment benefit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The meeting broke up with mixed feelings , but after a few days it became clear that we were in business . |
| 9 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 10 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 11 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
| 12 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |