Example sentences of "before [pron] [vb past] down " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just brought to my attention just before I came down . |
| 2 | When I was speaking t very very briefly erm to Ian before before I came down he said , well I 'm really not surprised , the the the continuing problem and difficulty in establishing what 's on the palette , as to whether it 's lawn feed and weed , lawn feed and , for example . |
| 3 | for It was no good my making a list before I came down because I just had n't seen anything like this in the Marks in Norwich . |
| 4 | She helped me dress in my new going-away outfit before I went down to say goodbye to my parents . |
| 5 | I rang him up before I went down and said I would n't be going in , I said I 'll just drop it off for you I says , cos er there 's me and June full of cold , it 's no good letting Ben get it is it ? |
| 6 | It was done before I looked down again . |
| 7 | I did n't stay at that school long before I moved down to erm the er Tins School on Chandler Street . |
| 8 | Cos I asked about that before I travelled down because I was worried in , you know , in case of breaking down . |
| 9 | Amid the clatter of cutlery and crockery , my contact revealed how Diana had seriously considered calling off the wedding two days before she walked down the aisle at St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 10 | Before she fell down . |
| 11 | ‘ I expect Lubor is busy beavering away back in his office ? ’ she asked as a warm-up question before she got down to basics — and immediately wished that she had n't because at once Ven 's expression darkened , and as he raised an aristocratic eyebrow she knew instantly that all affability was gone . |
| 12 | She pressed the third-floor button to go to her office , and put the passport away before she went down to her patient 's room and the distraught Italian husband . |
| 13 | No , you I used to know her from church in Oxford , before she moved down here . |
| 14 | Paige smiled her thanks and pulled out a chair , yet before she sat down she could n't resist the urge to cast a furtive glance over her shoulder . |
| 15 | Fabia had been in her room for a good half-hour before she cooled down sufficiently to realise that maybe her reaction to Lubor 's hauling her into his arms had been a little — fierce — perhaps . |
| 16 | ‘ She 'd already invited us before you came down , ’ said Betty . |
| 17 | But no — your relationship with Hugh , ’ he accused , ‘ was finished long before you came down here . ’ |
| 18 | I was about to say , before you jumped down my throat , if your plans need altering in any way . ’ |
| 19 | We just had time to eat a beautiful breakfast and read the complimentary morning papers before we touched down at London . |
| 20 | Before we came down here to clean the caravan . |
| 21 | Before we went down to the kitchen Elinor patted all the Napoleana into place , violets and Redouté roses ; a picture of him riding his horse , Marengo , and that one of him feeling for his wallet ; matchstick models made by French prisoners of war and a tricolour flying at half-mast . |
| 22 | But before we went down into the |
| 23 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 24 | Before we sat down in the restaurant Jamila took me aside and kissed me on the mouth . |
| 25 | And er but my husband was down here er a good year before we moved down here because there was n't accommodation available for us to move with i him you see ? |
| 26 | She crossed one leg over the other , and he 'd forgotten the incident again until he 'd gone to the car to bring in his brief case and check on the records before they went down to eat and to listen to the Donegal sound of Michael and his boys in the Connemara suite . |
| 27 | On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work . |
| 28 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 29 | This adage was true in the days when pears were grafted onto a miscellany of vigorous rootstocks , which encouraged the growth of great , large trees which took many years before they settled down to cropping . |
| 30 | Before they sat down there was a moment 's pause . |