Example sentences of "before she went [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years afterwards , Jay 's heart gave a lurch every time she passed the place where they parked — Astrid drove the three hundred yards from her house so they could kiss in the car before she went to Timisia . |
| 2 | While Nana denied that there were such things as duppies and forbade Martha to look under her old iron cot for them before she went to bed , Mada Joyce was expert on ghouls , ghosts , spirits and apparitions of all kinds , and had known a woman in another village who had actually seen the skinless old hag who sucked babies ' blood reach into the cradle of her new-born child and disappear with a shriek when she touched the Bible on the infant 's pillow . |
| 3 | Did Mary Antoinette sign anything before she went to the guillotine , I wondered . |
| 4 | Perhaps she did n't drink anything before she went to bed because she was worried she was getting incontinent . |
| 5 | Perhaps she did n't drink anything before she went to bed because she was worried she was getting incontinent . |
| 6 | Indeed , if it was not clear before she went to Australia , it must have been before she left , that only when she has once more played in The Championships — and preferably won the title — will people be ready to forgive and forget . |
| 7 | She 's bright — she was at Bristol University before she went to the secretarial college . |
| 8 | Her friend Rory Scott remembers her eating a 11b bag of sweets in short order during a bridge evening while her admission that she ate a bowl of custard before she went to bed added to the perplexity concerning her diet . |
| 9 | In the antechapel petitions were presented to her before she went to her devotions . |
| 10 | The calendar beside the clock was turned to the 21st January , 1919 — but was that yesterday 's date or today 's ; had she changed it before she went to bed last night ? |
| 11 | Lily remembered being cold , being hungry ; how before she went to bed her mother had scorched the skirting board with the flame of a kerosene lamp to make the bugs jump out of the walls . |
| 12 | But before she went to bed , she prayed . |
| 13 | She intended to drive to Gloucestershire straight from the office and before she went to work she wanted Oliver and his property out of her flat . |
| 14 | Though my brothers too enjoyed shooting , they preferred hunting , and my mother , who had hunted in Ireland before she went to Abyssinia , now took it up again . |
| 15 | She worked out sums on her way to school and in the bath and before she went to sleep . |
| 16 | However , in 1989 things started to go all wrong as she developed a hook in the very week before she went to the English at Burnham and Berrow Much of the season , by her high standards , was bitterly disappointing but , by dint of " plugging away " , she began to rediscover her form during the week of the English Intermediate won by Lora Fairclough . |
| 17 | ‘ She must have planned it before she went to the hospital . ’ |
| 18 | So Travis stayed the night on their couch , with the only bonus for him being that , bleary-eyed and hung-over the next morning , he had a chance to have a brief word with Rosemary before she went to her computer programmer 's job . |
| 19 | It occurred to her , just before she went to sleep , that she disliked Miss Sandra Bamfield as much as she had ever disliked anyone … except maybe Tommy Bellinger . |
| 20 | Another local woman said : ‘ Angela always called in on her mother before she went to work in the mornings . |
| 21 | ‘ Before she went to university she had great expectations but when she got there she was disappointed . |
| 22 | Before she went to Navron she told Harry she felt like the well fed birds that could only fly about in their cage , but ‘ one day I set a linnet free which flew straight out of my hand towards the sun . ’ |
| 23 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 24 | ‘ What 's wrong with her ? ’ asked Juliet , remembering the thin , dark-haired woman who had arrived on a stretcher just before she went for her coffee break . |
| 25 | The study skills she had learnt were certainly of value — six weeks before she went on her first overseas assignment her company put her through a crash course in Greek ! |
| 26 | So I phoned her last Nancy phoned me last Friday afternoon before she went on holiday to tell me , and I phoned I was n't sure whether just to sort of play it low key or then I thought , Well I know I really should just give here a wee ring . |
| 27 | She saw him in the wings just before she went on stage and she chose to ignore whatever had happened in the interval . |
| 28 | She was lifted out of her perch above the engine and made for the customs shed where she asked for a mirror so that she could restore order to her wrecked coiffure before she went into Paris . |
| 29 | It rustled round her ears as it had done before she went into mourning . |
| 30 | She developed a complete mental block against her pregnancy , and concealed it until four days before she went into labour . |