Example sentences of "before [pers pn] have have 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Someone jumping to an erroneous conclusion about your needs before you 've had a chance to explain yourself ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As they are marginally faster , the ability to begin fleeing before they have had a chance to accelerate to full speed is crucial . |
| 13 | The words had leapt out of Tom 's mouth before he had had a chance to stop them . |
| 14 | After the match , Hastings gave a television interview , attended the official post-match briefing and found time to have a word with me all before he 'd had a shower . |