Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] time before " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a long time before the railway lines began to shake , and they heard the train coming . |
| 2 | It seemed a long time before anyone answered and she felt rather stupid standing there with the bottles . |
| 3 | It seemed a long time before footsteps came along the hall , the door was pushed wider and Guy appeared with an armful of logs . |
| 4 | She seemed to wait a long time before she heard footsteps within , and then a light sprang up beyond the frosted glass . |
| 5 | She explained that with some people one had to wait a long time before one saw what one wanted to see . |
| 6 | I think it will take a long time before I could go out on my own , ’ Mr Norrie added . |
| 7 | It , it 'll take a long time before it starts to buck up . |
| 8 | It rang a long time before a woman 's voice answered — the same woman . |
| 9 | ‘ Even at these record levels of investment , it will mean a considerable time before the whole programme is completed , ’ said Transport Secretary John MacGregor . |
| 10 | It took a long time before she could even bring herself to close her eyes , let alone contemplate sleep . |
| 11 | It took a long time before she 'd sit in that chair . |
| 12 | It took a long time before she would sit in there though did n't it ? |
| 13 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 14 | THE majority community is sick and tired of hearing how a nationalist area was saturated with the security forces who departed a short time before loyalist paramilitaries entered to commit murder . |