Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] time before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |
| 2 | No doubt he sees this as a stage in his learning to win again , but all the time , he is learning instead to derive small satisfactions from losing — a skill he will have discarded some time before he won the Weembledon ( he really did pronounce it like that ) Junior Championship , all of 20 years ago . |
| 3 | THE hype began some time before we met . |
| 4 | It actually takes some time before I get to the stage of asking for his name , the date or details of the place where he lives . |
| 5 | I remember one time before he met Hilda — he seemed to have a different lass every Saturday night for a year or more . |
| 6 | The trade gap looks appalling and it may take some time before we see a significant drop in consumer spending . |
| 7 | it took some time before it was explained to them that the French pronunciation of GPT sounded just like ‘ J'ai pété ’ which , as all you Europhiles no doubt know , means ‘ I have broken wind . ’ |