Example sentences of "[prep] days before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start running down the food in your freezer and fridge , so that they can be switched off and cleaned a couple of days before you move . |
| 2 | Sykes went to Paris a couple of days before you did , and came back on the Monday . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | ‘ It will take me a couple of days before I can get organised , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It seemed only a matter of days before I was standing astride my bike at the gates of Sonning Common , together with my good friend Richard Smith ( who I think was twice as mad as me as he did n't have to do it ! ) |
| 6 | It had been a couple of days before it dawned on him : they were the full-size versions of the houses and station buildings he and his father had made up for their never-quite-finished model railway layout . |
| 7 | The diaries are proof of the work involved , for days before he would be discussing the hanging arrangements , the framing and the other arrangements to be made . |