Example sentences of "[pers pn] a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Miss Tildy , ’ he said , ‘ I want to say that I 'm sorry for what I did to you a few days ago . |
| 2 | I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’ |
| 3 | I 'll ask Daddy to give you a few days off from the office . |
| 4 | ‘ I see from your notes that your doctor saw you a few days ago . ’ |
| 5 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |
| 6 | I 'll try , but you 'll have to give me a few days before you pull her in . ’ |
| 7 | Give me a few days and I 'll do it when Stephen goes to New York . ’ |
| 8 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 9 | The joke turned against me a few days later as we were preparing to go alongside a ship at Baltic Wharf on the river Crouch . |
| 10 | You had better give me a few days . |
| 11 | ‘ Alan Dysart phoned me a few days ago . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |
| 13 | They found them a few days later , taking refuge in a small village of thatched mud-walled cabins at the foot of the Partry mountains . |
| 14 | A column of 400 Japanese followed them a few days later and reached Remexio , but there were no Australians in the town . |
| 15 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
| 16 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 17 | These three are likely to feature in tomorrow 's opening match against a Stellenbosch Farmers XI , though any idea of a nice easy game should be dismissed as Yorkshire , who have been out here for a week , struggled to beat them a few days ago . |
| 18 | Eleanor rang him a few days later and he was remarkably cool . |
| 19 | Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more . |
| 20 | She met him a few days after she started the job . |
| 21 | ‘ I got a letter from him a few days later , sent to the travel agents . |
| 22 | He has received a letter from one of the farmers which I sent him a few days ago . |
| 23 | now I was reading about him a few days ago |
| 24 | I take it you 'll be staying her a few days ? ’ |
| 25 | I gave her a few days off when William went away . |
| 26 | He was offering her a few days of physical pleasure which would only leave her thirsty for more . |
| 27 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 28 | It was Brian , chancing to come across it a few days later while looking for some envelopes , who said , ‘ Who on earth are all these people ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We 'll have to give it a few days to get properly weather-beaten . |
| 30 | ‘ Let's give it a few days . |