Example sentences of "[num] days [conj] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you realize it 's two years , six months and six days since I saw you on to a train — possibly this very one — the day before I went to America ? |
| 2 | I got an eyelash stuck right inside fold , and I could n't er shift it for love nor money , it were there about two or three days before I went to doctors . |
| 3 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 4 | The boy was back in three days and I knew by his face he had momentous news . |
| 5 | I ought to be home in three days and I 've made a deal with Henry . |
| 6 | I 'd been out the army about three days and I went to this dance with some army mates . |
| 7 | As he prepared for tomorrow night 's away game at Leicester , caretaker manager Malcolm Crosby , said : ‘ We have to play 10 matches in 25 days and I think even Arnold Schwarzenegger would struggle to do that . |
| 8 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
| 9 | ‘ I said ten days and I meant it . |
| 10 | Then John got done for burglary and he was put away five days before I got out . |
| 11 | It was something like four or five days after I finished filming Total Recall with Arnold and I had to put every dime that I had into buying a house . |
| 12 | I was in hospital for five days but I do n't remember anything about that , either . |
| 13 | Another twelve days till I get my canoe . |
| 14 | A red semi-regular variable ; range 5.0 to 7.6 , period said to be about 130 days though I find little evidence of this . |
| 15 | Two days after I met him I went to prison . |
| 16 | ‘ Two days after I tell them about Damien Gould , he 's dead . |
| 17 | Two days after I returned , of official notification came that I was missing , believed killed in action . |
| 18 | Two days after I arrived , the García Meza coup took place and two-and-a-half years of exile began . |
| 19 | ‘ Two days after I did the tattoo they found him on a street in Los Ilusiones . |
| 20 | arrived two days after I did , and was put in the hotel room next to mine . |
| 21 | Well they sent me , I went on a computer course two days before I went to in hospital and was away for eight weeks and I forgot totally |
| 22 | they , two days before I 'd left , |
| 23 | Something tightened in my chest as I remembered the two days since I saw Toby last . |
| 24 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 25 | The assistant governor [ AG ] who I saw four days after I got into prison told me I 'd be going to Cookham Wood or Bullwood Hall in two to three weeks . |
| 26 | ‘ But it 's only four days since I saw him . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I decided on four days because I reckoned that that 's as near to being a full-timer as you can be , while still gaining something significant for yourself . |