Example sentences of "before [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I knocked on the Ass . |
| 2 | He went on , ‘ Matt lived here alone for years before I came on the scene . |
| 3 | No , I was told before I came on the course , you 're going on the course to learn to make maximum use out of it , you 're not going on an almighty second holiday and |
| 4 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 5 | . Sir I am the present overseer but these things was before I came to the Parish . |
| 6 | ‘ The fire had been lit before I came to the office . |
| 7 | I refer to Burnley , whose council I led before I came to the House . |
| 8 | I was changing , of course , before I went to the Meeting House . |
| 9 | I did n't think before I went into the recruiting office and became a marine , and I did n't think now . |
| 10 | I wo n't read it all out , but it was given to me before I went into the Air Force . |
| 11 | I took them off before I went through the floor into the dock . ’ |
| 12 | Before I went through the door , I looked back — at all the life that existed only here in the Star Zoo , and in no other place in all the Galaxy ! |
| 13 | Fortunately an assistant stopped mew before I went through the roof . |
| 14 | That 's before I went in the army . |
| 15 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 16 | ‘ Before I went in the ring , I had to spend half a day just cooling down my adrenaline . |
| 17 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I was in the R.A.S.C. before I transferred to the Parachute Regiment . |
| 19 | ‘ Before I got on the plane , I had to treat a woman on the island of St Thomas , when she fell from a balcony , fracturing her skull . |
| 20 | I suppose in asking that question I 've got to ask you to rule out er all transactions er which have sort of transacted through New York and London at the same , or , or at different times , because quite clearly the Good Committee would er all their suggestions would fail on that behalf You 've just destroyed the question I was going to ask you really before I got to the question . |
| 21 | But before I got to the end of it I burst into tears . |
| 22 | I met Belinda — the Belinda from Sotheby 's — and we had a little chin-wag before I looked round the exhibition . |
| 23 | I acquired the skills to do this before I knew about the world , purely because of God 's will . |
| 24 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 25 | Before I moved in the ceiling got smashed in and the place was covered in water — it happens because the places are left empty . |
| 26 | They all shook hands with me , and the Frenchman gave me a bag containing one dozen eggs before I clambered over the wall and into the orchard . |
| 27 | Before I settled among the Tuthanach I wandered further up the river , crossing the great marsh . |
| 28 | It finished 'is boxin'. 'E was goin' ter fight fer a title before 'e went in the army . ’ |
| 29 | Before she ran into the wash basin . |
| 30 | She could n't make out Eileen 's answer but she muttered , ‘ Eejit , is right , ’ before she knocked on the door . |