Example sentences of "few day [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days previously I had paid a quick visit to Bourn , which had not yet closed down , to say goodbye to those of my acquaintances who were still there , and to find out what had happened to Rosemary . |
| 2 | Then a few days later we had opening night , and I was in my first tuxedo . |
| 3 | A few days later we passed the desiccated corpse of another brigand hanging on a gibbet beside the track . |
| 4 | ‘ A few days later we learnt Whitton had sent a secret message to the Caliph . ’ |
| 5 | I sent Kassimi with a letter to the Governor at Goba , and a few days later we received an apology for our treatment and permission to continue our journey . |
| 6 | Being a glutton for punishment , a few days later we rounded it off by doing the Danube Knee bend towards Budapest . |
| 7 | A few days later we heard a reading room receptionist telephoning the ground floor police desk to ask if she needed her umbrella to go to lunch . |
| 8 | A few days later we climbed Toubkal though . |
| 9 | Just a few days later they recovered part of a body from a lake in surrey . |
| 10 | A few days later they signed identical " non-exclusive occupation " agreements which provided that each of them had to pay equal monthly payments . |
| 11 | They backed off that time , but a few days later they tried to invade the island . |
| 12 | He had thought that that would be the last he would hear of her , but a few days later she had sent him her first piece , and he had been so impressed by it that he had printed it and asked her to write more for him . |
| 13 | A few days later she discovered that although the can was CFC-free , it contained other greenhouse gases . |
| 14 | She went to a small hospital near the house , and a few days later she died . |
| 15 | ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her . |
| 16 | A few days later he had a letter from a listener asking him why he 'd told them that his gas bill was arriving the following day . |
| 17 | A few days later he returned to find Mr Crangle not looking so happy . |
| 18 | In March 1945 , a few weeks before the German surrender , Eliot was expressing his pessimism about the future ; a few days later he wrote his last commentary for the Christian News Letter and used the pseudonym of " Metoikos " or " resident alien " . |
| 19 | A few days later he came to fetch us . |
| 20 | A few days later he came back , said they gave tactile pleasure to his patients , a little on the lines of worry beads , and off he went with a boxful . ’ |
| 21 | A few days later he came to the office to give his report in person . |
| 22 | A few days later he received a summons to interrogation by one of these officers , which he refused to attend . |
| 23 | ‘ But a few days later he got a letter with a train ticket down south and two hundred pounds in notes as expenses . |
| 24 | A few days later he got a job as a sales executive with the Hartlepool marketing company SMAC . |
| 25 | A few days later he spent $26.4 million on Picasso 's Le Miroir , a striking rear-view of a model reflected in a mirror , painted in 1932 . |
| 26 | A few days later he asked her again . |
| 27 | In 1802 he records ‘ 19th January — Mr. Ibbetson 's dance ’ and then a few days later he dined at Mr. Ibbetson 's . |
| 28 | A few days later he confided : |
| 29 | A few days later he joined her . |
| 30 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |