Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] a [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Salvation Army officer friend had arranged for Ann to spend a few days away from home to help her resolve her feelings about the crisis before starting to tackle the difficulties in her marriage . |
| 2 | In the centre of the clearing where they have stopped is a Red Indian wigwam , the one Odd-Knut erected a few days before . |
| 3 | The skins taunted the police with what had happened at the Brixton riots a few days previously . |
| 4 | Gene landed a few days later and in July Joe went out with reinforcements . |
| 5 | Holomisa had a few days earlier claimed to have knowledge of a planned coup attempt against him , stating that members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging ( AWB ) were involved in guerrilla training on South African territory near the Transkei border . |
| 6 | Harry Maylie waited a few days , then , as his mother had expected , he asked Rose to marry him . |
| 7 | She wrote that she would prefer not to come home , but Tony and Maureen got a few days ' leave and travelled to Kent to see her . |
| 8 | Men from the SAS and Delta Force infiltrated a number of towns and cities during the war , and Saddam Hussein himself told several of his visitors that the SIS ( or M16 , as it is often called ) had sent in three Pakistani agents to attend the Islamic conference which Iraq summoned a few days before the UN deadline . |
| 9 | So after giving details of my ‘ movements ’ to the police , I drove up to Nottingham to spend a few days with the family . |
| 10 | Sarah had a few days ' leave while Joe was home and Maureen suggested , while Anne and her father were present , that Joe took Sarah out sometimes . |
| 11 | Sometimes Elise would come up to London to spend a few days at Merrill 's flat and together they visited galleries , and saw a show . |
| 12 | The quiet-spoken Esson has paid the price of seeing Defender slip from being third at one stage of the first leg to ninth in Punta , leaving Watkins to attack a two days , 17 hours , 37 minutes and 25 seconds deficit to make up on the leader , the New Zealand ketch Steinlager , and a 30 hours , 54 minutes , 52 seconds on the other top British challenger , Rothmans . |