Example sentences of "[verb] before [pos pn] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , the good and great could be seen as noble types appearing before their time . |
| 2 | Although this happened before my time with 57 Squadron one of the crew became a good friend before he remustered from A/G for pilot training and he was very proud of his Caterpillar Club membership . |
| 3 | Alexander , Duke of Ross , was born before his time on the thirtieth April 1514 ! ’ |
| 4 | Maybe you would n't get so many of them wasted before their time . ’ |
| 5 | There is a partial line on the map which I think this Council agreed before my time but that is not a line which could be implemented because it starts from nowhere and goes to nowhere and we are still I believe in , in , in limbo so far as the exact route which might be proposed either the northern or the southern end . |
| 6 | Or was it someone you knew before our time together ? |
| 7 | ‘ No , ma'am , only that she died before her time and had been a lady 's maid . ’ |
| 8 | Well that 's right we ca n't go before our time |
| 9 | We were also convinced that unless we could get the politicians and so called ‘ medical experts ’ to start exercising their minds , then the people in communities like ours would continue to die before their time and our children would be damaged before they even got a chance to live . |
| 10 | Out of habit the Brigadier treated everybody as though they were local National Service boys who had grown up in the village and so knew every blade of grass as well as he did but who might be a bit hazy about certain family backgrounds and about things that had happened before their time . |
| 11 | My wife killed before her time , my son born dead and my only surviving heir a selfish girl who just wants to have fun ! ’ |
| 12 | It seems to me that , if we are spending £3 million on training someone to fly a fast jet and if , when he leaves the force — there are a lot of people leaving before their time is up — he is not being used in the reserve forces , that is a tremendous waste of a national resource . |
| 13 | The major innovations and discoveries of the 20th century such as transistors , penicillin or nuclear power could not have been predicted before their time nor do their stories have much in common except the the research which led to them could not have been directed towards their discovery . |