Example sentences of "before i [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She said : ‘ It is a trip of a lifetime and something I want to do before I settle down with a career . |
2 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
3 | So er to look at it er another way , w I , I 'll stop before I go back to the erm slides , because I want to show you a few on you know erm er the way that money 's worked over the last forty years , but if you look at index-linked certificates , cos somebody mentioned that , are they worth having ? |
4 | So it was maybe a half-hour before I go back to the main adobe . |
5 | I know how busy they are when I come off the road off a night , and I know busy because they are before I go out on a morning , and erm , it seems like they 're never likely to get stuck from time to time though . |
6 | I probably smile slightly before I go out of the room and come back downstairs to commence : |
7 | which I shall not attempt to conceal from you , but before I come down to the details let me say that Darwinism occupies such a central position in evolutionary biology — in biology as a whole , not just in evolutionary biology but in the whole of biology — that any important , new idea in biology has to be , to some extent , judged by its compatibility with , or its contradictions of , the Darwinian position . |
8 | Before I move on to a fuller description of helicopter radios , let's summarise the above : |