Example sentences of "before [pers pn] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , I like animals but I do n't like being told what to think before I 've had a chance to make up my own mind ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question . |
| 3 | This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use . |
| 4 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ she said before I 'd had a chance to say anything . |
| 5 | Before I had completed a question about whether he would like to be Chancellor , MacGregor broke in to say with a smile , as he had to : ‘ But I am enjoying being at transport . |
| 6 | At one point , the German countess emerged from the midst of the gentlemen and before I had had a chance to serve her , began helping herself to some port from my tray . |
| 7 | Before she 'd had a chance to react , to jump off the bed and snatch the towel , seize some kind of weapon to defend herself from whoever it was prowling around , the bedroom door swung open and the light clicked on . |
| 8 | But before she had covered a quarter of the distance she began to complain about the light , high-heeled shoes she was wearing . |
| 9 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
| 10 | You wo n't do yourself any favours by getting worked up before you 've run a step . |
| 11 | She sniffed , and smiled a bit , but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who does n't understand you it 's someone who understands perfectly , before you 've had a chance to have a good pout about not being understood . |
| 12 | ‘ Someone jumping to an erroneous conclusion about your needs before you 've had a chance to explain yourself ’ . |
| 13 | You feel a soft click through your fingers before you have pressed a key as far as it will go . |
| 14 | In the north you must be wise even before you have a mature emotion … ; you must develop your self-assurance before you have become a man , you must be intelligent before you are a child ; personal harmony and beauty are not allowed to thrive and mature … |
| 15 | It is simply a method of inhibiting or stopping your debtor from cashing in his assets and putting them out of your reach before you have had a chance to recover what is owed to you . |
| 16 | Even before we 'd exchanged a word , I knew that she would let me do anything I wanted to her . |
| 17 | The very words ‘ modern art ’ still carry by themselves a charge strong enough to disturb , dishearten , or even repel , some before they 've read a line or listened to a note of whatever work has been given this label . |
| 18 | And night before they 'd sunk a hospital ship . |
| 19 | They first hit on this method because they were suddenly deprived of their darkroom , shortly before they had to prepare a show . |
| 20 | It is often said that children have their lives before them and to die before they have had a chance to develop their personalities and lives seems particularly cruel . |
| 21 | As they are marginally faster , the ability to begin fleeing before they have had a chance to accelerate to full speed is crucial . |
| 22 | One big club in the north is known to have offered a player signing from the Continent a loyalty bonus before he had kicked a ball for his new team . |
| 23 | Among the fifty-eight French officers captured were the Brigadier and two Regimental Commanders , the former taken in his dugout before he had heard a shot fired . |
| 24 | He was chosen for the 1928–29 tour of Australia , but rheumatism forced him to return home before he had played a match . |
| 25 | Soon afterwards , and before he had received a reply from Churchill , Franco gave what was his first foreign press interview as Head of State . |
| 26 | Eliot was doing this before he had articulated a theory about it . |
| 27 | When he had graduated , but before he had established a practice , he would return to Dublin and retrace his mother 's steps . |
| 28 | The words had leapt out of Tom 's mouth before he had had a chance to stop them . |
| 29 | It was not long before he had found a position in the same firm for young Joseph , as a junior clerk . |
| 30 | In fact , I remember when I first introduced him to my father and before he 'd said a word , I said , ‘ This is my father ’ who told me afterwards that he had n't realized that it was a boy because I mean … long hair — his hair was really long . |