Example sentences of "it [prep] [art] few day " in BNC.
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1 | Covering the work to protect from frost and rain , we left it for a few days to dry , which helps the shuttering to loosen itself too . |
2 | Think about it for a few days , that 's all I ask of you . |
3 | We will just ask you can we have a look at it for a few days . |
4 | ‘ Do n't use it for a few days , and see how it goes . ’ |
5 | It would be a holiday to discard the worry of it for a few days . |
6 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
7 | ‘ Teach me to live , that I may dread/The grave as little as my bed ’ , he had written ; in this spirit he carried his shroud in a portmanteau and put it on a few days before his death at Longleat in 1711 , which his friends considered to have been advanced by his fasting and mortifications . |