Example sentences of "before [pron] [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
| 2 | Well because he was half at the time it was just before I left at about nine to come down here you see . |
| 3 | and then there 's me , tell me when it gets to eleven and like I had to go and get a shower and put the dinner all out and all before I left at half four . |
| 4 | Well , 'e become top scorer o' centuries when 'e was 42 and went on to 197 of 'em before 'e retired at 51 . |
| 5 | Lydia looked at the picture before she looked at the signature . |
| 6 | It was ten minutes before she returned at a snail 's pace with four rum punches . |
| 7 | ‘ My mother , just before she died at the age of fifty . ’ |
| 8 | As usual , he was at his desk before she arrived at the office , and , as always , she felt that brief but undeniable shock of pleasure at seeing him . |
| 9 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 10 | ‘ The assumption … that you might know before you looked at cultural relations in general what , at any particular time , was a part of elite culture or a part of popular culture is untenable ’ ( Hall 1978 : 6–7 ) . |
| 11 | Before we looked at the Fort , we sat in a chai shop , sipping hot tea and reading out loud from Inayat Khan 's chronicle . |
| 12 | Just before we arrived at the station , the lights came on . |
| 13 | We finished just before we arrived at the main gate of the chateau . |
| 14 | Before they left at the end of their week , Alastair and Stuart presented them with Scottish Nuclear baseball caps and T-shirts . |
| 15 | Twilight had crept out of hiding and was stealthily wrapping the dying day in lavender shrouds , before they stopped at a small trattoria alongside one of the quieter canals . |
| 16 | The worse-than-expected results knocked shares down 13p to 427p , before they closed at 428p , down 12p . |
| 17 | In fact they had known all about Crabb 's venture before they arrived at Portsmouth and their frogmen were waiting for him as he approached the cruiser . |
| 18 | The second in line to the throne was still known officially as ‘ Baby Wales ’ and it took the couple several days of discussion before they arrived at a name . |
| 19 | She could only pray that Dana had come to her senses and had left before they arrived at Garry 's hide-out . |
| 20 | He matured into a distinguished mathematician who enriched many branches of the science before he died at the age of only 44 from a ruptured appendix . |
| 21 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |
| 22 | Bénezet let him go , and sat for some moments considering what he had heard , before he rose at leisure , and walked back thoughtfully to the guesthall . |
| 23 | just before he arrived at the school Victor Gollancz left its staff , ejected because he tried to rouse boys ' minds by heady and daring political argument . |
| 24 | After leaving the church Dalgliesh went briefly back to the Yard to pick up his files on Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers and it was after midday before he arrived at 62 Campden Hill Square . |
| 25 | He saw the King to the gates and , coming back , heard the clangour of Elfswitha 's malevolence before he arrived at the door of their chamber . |
| 26 | Her son had made 10 months ' progress in a year , against his usual six months before he started at Lady Jane Grey . |
| 27 | Even before he started at Rangers , Brian Clough had written him off as being ‘ too nice ’ for the job . |
| 28 | Bobby had long ago learned the working man 's love of facts as opposed to theories and he always made sure to have a few up his sleeve before he spoke at a union meeting . |
| 29 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 30 | The militaria section included an interesting group of 10th Hussar material among which was an early sabretache ; this lot attracted brisk bidding before it sold at £1,200 . |