Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a [adj] days he " 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 | He became ill , and after a few days he died in my arms . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |