Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Placing her thumb in her mouth , she sucked on it furiously for a few seconds before settling down once more into a deep sleep . |
| 2 | Wendell lit a cigar and puffed on it thoughtfully for a few minutes before saying , ‘ Those guardians of yours , Harry — the ones who filched your father 's legacy from you . |
| 3 | They then worked on the script together for a few months before joining Peckinpah in England , where he was busy with pre-production . |
| 4 | This was particularly so in the early months before and after vesting day , and the concentrated pattern of working which was then established proved very resistant to change in later years . |
| 5 | Elizabeth and Helen moved into their own basement flat in an inner-city suburb in 1987. they are middle-aged and spent nearly thirty years together at the same mental handicap hospital but lived separately for the two years before the move into the community because Helen was transferred to a smaller institution . |
| 6 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |
| 7 | Otherwise , Kovacevich was well wide of the mark and if he respects this work he might contemplate putting it away for a few years before reconsidering its interpretation . |
| 8 | Dona Marguerita coughed wheezily for a few moments before resuming the interview . |
| 9 | Also in the last months before the war Lloyd George appears to have been contemplating a more direct assault upon the Poor Law which had been almost unchanged by the Reports of the Royal Commission in February 1909 . |
| 10 | There was a plop as it landed in the water , then it thrashed around wildly for a few seconds before settling down . |
| 11 | Sam said , ‘ Morning , ’ but Camille glanced at him haughtily and looked away : she considered that she had no time for the working classes , although her mother 's best friend had been brought up here in the olden days before the supermarkets and the middle class had come to compete for space . |
| 12 | Twice in the six weeks before the referendum President Mikhail Gorbachev went on nationwide television and radio to appeal for a " yes " vote . |
| 13 | Indeed , Shearer , might have scored twice in the seven minutes before Adams 's goal . |
| 14 | Moreover , after relative tranquillity between 1907 and 1910 , the number of disturbances appears to have risen abruptly in the last years before the war . |
| 15 | The driver , a slight figure in a tweed jacket and grey flannel trousers , got out and looked across at the two women before turning to rummage behind the front seat and extract a bulky briefcase and an armful of files . |
| 16 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |