Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes one set of sculptors would be finishing an already countermanded set before the news of yet more changes reached them . |
| 2 | In fact , I 'd suspected before tonight . |
| 3 | It might have been the man that he 'd seen before or it might not ; his face was no more than a characterless oval with a few spare lines drawn on it for features . |
| 4 | And now , her face straight , her lips seeming to quiver , she went into the song ; and so beautiful was her rendering of it , so touching the cadences , so tender with longing the words , that she seemed transformed before their eyes : she was no longer Lemon , good for a joke or a bit of ribbing , for her voice cut through the façade of brashness , of insensitivity and coarseness that seems to become necessary to men in war . |
| 5 | How , you know the last time you saw the doctor , how long did he say you 'd got before it completely |
| 6 | As for his own peers — the friends he 'd had before Vanessa — most had faded . |
| 7 | Cut adrift from nearly everything I 'd known before seven , I turned inward and invented story games to play alone . |
| 8 | Tips ( you wish you 'd known before you left ) : Get specific directions to the cruise departure point at the Port of Miami . |
| 9 | I started eating my dinner about fifteen minutes before Andy and he 'd finished before me . |
| 10 | Shannon named the television station where she 'd worked before turning freelance , and the other woman pursed her lips thoughtfully . |
| 11 | Despite herself , and probably because she was still feeling the effects of the whisky she 'd taken before going to bed , Rory began to giggle . |
| 12 | Grant 's face darkened as his memory flashed back to when he 'd stood before the fearsome incendiary device in the basement of Bethlehem House . |
| 13 | Because of this , the result of the Sunderland game became known before the end of the Bristol-Coventry game . |
| 14 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 15 | From here , the whole of Wensleydale from Leyburn to Aysgarth lay spread before us . |
| 16 | No food lay spread before him . |
| 17 | And the mists had all solemnly risen now , and the world lay spread before me |
| 18 | But the old bobby — he 'd downed his pint of beer — he got taken before the chief constable and he got a serious fine , £1 . |
| 19 | ‘ I need some tea and I 've got a thermos here , ’ he announced , getting out of the car without looking at her and opening the back door on his side to find the thermos which he had filled before starting off . |
| 20 | In what purports to be his will ( 9 May 1313 ) , which is singular in style , Schorne spoke of old age and rendered to God what was God 's ( his soul ) , to the earth what was the earth 's ( his body , in a tomb he had designated before the high altar of North Marston ) , and his goods to be divided between intercessors and the poor , for the welfare of his soul . |
| 21 | I had n't even noticed the pickets and I can only presume that they had parted before me as I walked towards them as they still do today . |
| 22 | It was n't the sound she had heard before but something quite different . |
| 23 | Rostov thought about the warning which he had received before leaving Knossos — an anonymous permafax which indicated that one of the members of his staff had been commissioned as an assassin . |
| 24 | In a radio programme , the Prime Minister told Sue Lawley , in response to a question on housing , that repossessions had stopped before Christmas . |
| 25 | Poindexter 's conviction was quashed in a split two-to-one judgement on the grounds that the recollection of trial witnesses had been tainted by testimony which he had given before Congress under immunity in 1987 . |
| 26 | To one who had travelled before her . |
| 27 | Hospitals might be privatised or turned into voluntary hospitals , as the Conservatives had favoured before 1946 . |
| 28 | A number of authorities had reorganised before the reforms leading to some difficulties , according to John Findlay , social services officer of NALGO . |
| 29 | I was also very conscious that you had telephoned before the 6pm cheap rate because of the mackintosh nonsense , and did not want to detain you . |
| 30 | A few years earlier he had been the undisputed master of the empire : two hundred thousand of his warriors had paraded before him while a hundred thousand others guarded the marches of the north or fought the Somalis in the deserts to the east . |