Example sentences of "day before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most continue ripening in store until ready for the table , but a few varieties must be brought into the warm for a few days before they are ready to eat . |
| 2 | Three days before she came back , I cleaned the flat , bought a new jacket and five bright new cotton shirts , stayed sober , worked like hell on the magazine in a way that made Francis ‘ gasp and stretch his eyes ’ . |
| 3 | But only days before Mr Sok Hay stood in front of his villa speculating on how much his property might be worth in the future , Khmer Rouge guerrillas had ambushed a Phnom Penh army patrol in the hills close by . |
| 4 | ‘ I believe Tony used to believe that , in the days before he became … different . ’ |
| 5 | The announcement comes six days before staff are told of proposals to merge most of the two groups of journalists , involving redundancies . |
| 6 | Mr Baker 's comments came , however , a few days before Mr Greenspan starts a four-day visit to Moscow . |
| 7 | ‘ I fought a number of battles but for the last 10 days before we left , because things did n't go too well , I was commanding the rearguard on the Aegean Sea . ’ |
| 8 | The Welsh All Blacks , too , have an imminent engagement with their NZ counterparts , three days before the tourists play the Scarlets , and for both sides today 's game is vital preparation . |
| 9 | Cricket , he claimed , was his second religion , but his first won him the loyalty and affection of generations , whether the staff and pupils of Worksop College , of which he was chaplain , or his parishioners at Blewbury in Oxfordshire , of which he was vicar from 1964 until his death , five days before he was due to retire . |
| 10 | There are rooms booked in the hotel if they want to take the opportunity of visiting relatives but I do n't expect them in Dublin until two days before we play . |
| 11 | Clare Evans , 18 , of Barry , South Wales , told the jury that Mr Browning took a splinter out of her hand with a butterfly knife on 16 June last year , two days before he is alleged to have killed Mrs Wilks . |
| 12 | Until a couple of days before the price was announced Warburg was working towards a Fr70 price , and only pushed this up to Fr72 ( 707p ) when it saw how strong demand was . |
| 13 | But a few days before Khrushchev was summoned back to Moscow from the Black Sea for his political execution , Mr Voronov received an unexpected invitation to go hunting with Brezhnev . |
| 14 | they must tell you at least 21 days before they plan to take maternity leave . |
| 15 | Only a couple of days before Maggie had pointed out how the great cathedral dominated the city , like the spines along a dragon 's back , while the other buildings lay in a rough sprawl . |
| 16 | It was two days before medical staff found out what his distraught parents were trying to tell them — that he had swallowed the contents of a tin of paint . |
| 17 | The biggest problem has been the failure of farmers to stick to the requirement to withdraw the drug at least 10 days before pigs are slaughtered . |
| 18 | In a terse statement the board of directors said it had ‘ considered the Great Britain management set-up and individual talks will take place over the next few days before a formal announcement is made ’ . |
| 19 | In a terse statement the board of directors said it had ‘ considered the Great Britain management set-up and individual talks will take place over the next few days before a formal announcement is made ’ . |
| 20 | Details of Lord Young 's involvement emerge in an exchange of letters between him and Professor Smith on July 12 , 1988 — two days before he made his announcement to the House of Lords of the Rover sale . |
| 21 | Two days before he tortured Doe to death , Mr Johnson hugged and embraced his future victim , and told him that they should join sides . |
| 22 | He ha scored ten in thirty minutes before he was hit on the temple of his helmet by a ball from Marshall that lifted sharply ; with his vision blurred it was several days before he left hospital , and he did not play again all season . |
| 23 | Two days before Mark returned to England , Klepner spent a whole day with Muldoon going over the plan . |
| 24 | A few days before the European Planning Committee was due to meet , Mueller decided to go for the jugular . |
| 25 | Two days before Dagon seemed Yahweh 's conqueror . |
| 26 | The same year brought the Pugwash manifesto , written by Bertrand Russell and signed by Einstein two days before he died , as well as by Professors Max Born , J. F. Joliot-Curie and Joseph Rotblat . |
| 27 | Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back ! |
| 28 | Kylie and Blamey were forces to wait agonising days before the trio agreed to sit down and talk about writing a song . |
| 29 | His claim that to see the atonement at work one should visit the House of Commons was made in those happy days before its proceedings were televised . |
| 30 | The mystery of this curious behaviour intrigued me , but it was several days before I discovered its logic from a Prague friend . |