Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Owen spoke during a break in talks at Medjugorje , a Bosnian Roman Catholic pilgrimage town , as he tried to end eight days of fighting between Moslems and Croats in the city of Mostar . |
| 2 | Yes , Devlin had worked there for a while , but he 'd left three days ago . |
| 3 | The two Nordic girls he had seen two days before were now basking like seals outside another cafe . |
| 4 | cos er , you have to wait three days for it , and then cheque 's got ta clear in the bank , it 's like our Mark he had a cheque put in his , he had to wait three days before it cleared went in on the Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , do n't count Saturday , Sunday , Monday , cleared by Tuesday dinner time |
| 5 | What really disturbed the Under-Secretary was the report he had received two days ago about the smuggling in of arms for this new Volunteer army . |
| 6 | He was reading once again a letter he had received three days ago . |
| 7 | Neville Chamberlain returned that day from France , where he had taken ten days ' rest , and the last session of Baldwin 's leadership began . |
| 8 | The fighting had stopped on 29 April 1945 , and he had spent 11 days in Allied-occupied Austria , leaving on 22 May . |
| 9 | He said he had spent four days taking rock samples in the area of the dam and had found that there were interconnected limestone layers above and below the dam site through which the water might leak away . |
| 10 | The youngster had been taken to hospital , where he had spent two days after an operation . |
| 11 | When Paisley man Christy Welsh was released by the Americans from the hands of the Nazis in Brunau , May 4th 1945 , the last thing on his mind was a return visit to the little Greek island of Leros , where he had spent five days desperate fighting before being taken prisoner . |
| 12 | He had spent three days and nights without sleep — two of them , as he put it , ‘ in the bush with Samora Machel ’ . |