Example sentences of "it was several [noun] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was several minutes before he had found the courage to ask her how she had got to the beach . |
| 2 | The house seemed to be an absolute maze of rooms , though , and it was several minutes before she finally opened a door that led into a surprisingly well-equipped kitchen . |
| 3 | And it was several minutes before her quick ears picked up , from somewhere well ahead of her , the snap of a broken branch under a trampling foot . |
| 4 | Her lifeless fingers refused to obey the simplest of commands , and it was several minutes before she felt the spray , as hot as she could bear , pounding her stiffened body back into life , tingling the nerve-ends until she felt almost human again . |
| 5 | It was several minutes before she decided that he really was n't there . |
| 6 | It was several minutes before Harris reappeared . |
| 7 | And when at last he got a ringing tone , it was several minutes before it was answered . |
| 8 | His agitation seemed an aspect of my fading dream , and it was several moments before I could take in what he was saying . |
| 9 | It was several moments before she realized she was running ankle-deep in water . |
| 10 | It was several moments before she regained her self-control . |
| 11 | It was several moments before he spoke . |
| 12 | It was several moments before he replaced the little oil in the box along with Tommy 's other possessions . |
| 13 | I was so immersed in my thoughts that it was several seconds before I realised that the sound dinning in my ears was the telephone ringing . |
| 14 | It was several seconds before they recovered their breath . |
| 15 | It was several seconds before Lindsey recognised the dark-haired girl grinning at her . |
| 16 | It was several seconds before it dawned on her that his last words had been spoken in Italian . |
| 17 | Foul weather with squally winds put paid to an immediate start on the building so it was several months before the engine strip-down could begin under the new roof . |
| 18 | ‘ It was several months before the truth finally dawned on me that although I was being entirely faithful to her she had no inhibitions about sleeping with other men for kicks . ’ |
| 19 | It was several months before anything significant happened in Edward 's life — by which time he was so sick of the stagnant war that he would have been prepared to be parachuted into the heart of Germany wearing a kilt . |
| 20 | He ha scored ten in thirty minutes before he was hit on the temple of his helmet by a ball from Marshall that lifted sharply ; with his vision blurred it was several days before he left hospital , and he did not play again all season . |
| 21 | The mystery of this curious behaviour intrigued me , but it was several days before I discovered its logic from a Prague friend . |
| 22 | It was because of his deafness , not his more obvious injuries , that he was being invalided out , and it was several days before he finally joined us and took up his culinary duties . |
| 23 | The railway grapevine was not the sophisticated piece of equipment we know today , and it was several years before I discovered the reason for these ‘ apparitions ’ . |
| 24 | Finally losing the contract to supply gunpowder in 1636 , Evelyn petitioned for compensation for losses , but it was several years before he was cleared of all responsibility for the failure to maintain supplies . |
| 25 | It was several weeks before he was well enough to get out of bed . |
| 26 | It was several weeks before she realised that now that he was working he would not be free to walk about the neighbourhood . |
| 27 | She became seriously ill , and it was several weeks before Dr Kenneth would allow her out of bed . |