Example sentences of "time before " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was plenty of time before Curtain Up at 8 o'clock , half the cast had gone out and backstage had a drowsy air about it . |
| 2 | I spent the time before it boning up on things like Troops Out . |
| 3 | Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard . |
| 4 | At that time , Grand Met entered into an option whereby Brent Walker could sell Whyte & Mackay to it for £150m at any time before October 31 . ’ |
| 5 | Instead of threatening Cumani , the punter with the violent rather than lucky streak should be kicking himself for not biding his time before backing Shellac . |
| 6 | ‘ So that is the mess they are going to leave us , because some time before the completion of the single market , we shall have a Labour government . ’ |
| 7 | Ministers are , significantly , confident that an upturn can be achieved in good time before the next election . |
| 8 | I 'm , I 'm , I 'm … an Entertainer' ) was born in Tiger Bay , Cardiff , some time before the war , the seventh child of a mother from northern England and a father from Nigeria . |
| 9 | LORD JUSTICE RALPH GIBSON said that neither the plaintiff nor the defendant applied to the court at any time before judgment for an order under Order 5 , rule 5(2) appointing the defendant to represent all or any of the members of the management committee . |
| 10 | The initial setting up could be carried out by them and then circularised to the nearest branches some time before September in order for the most capable branch to make an offer for the franchise . |
| 11 | Record companies generally send these out some time before an event or the release of a product in order to whip up a bit of advance interest from the press . |
| 12 | The producers of all these programmes are inundated with cassette tapes from bands , so they may take some time before listening to them all . |
| 13 | On one occasion , to kill time before a suitably uplifting film , we met at Waterloo station and decided to go to the cinema within the station precinct which showed a continuous programme of cartoons for the convenience of passengers with time on their hands . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the idea of a National Government had been in the air for some time before its actual formation . |
| 15 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
| 16 | They got us off and the bus disappeared , but there was still a reason why we could not board — they never let on what it was — — and we stood on the tarmac for a long time before being herded to the back entrance . |
| 17 | In fact at one time before the Pakistan-Bangladesh war there were so many that we called this form of depression Pakistani Syndrome . |
| 18 | A peaceful calm settles across the Centre for a short time before the parade . |
| 19 | Literally translated , Vogelsang means ‘ bird song ’ , but it was some time before the dawn chorus when the Squadron Sergeant Major bawled out the orders for reveille . |
| 20 | The upward spiral on which film budgets were set suggests that Rank might have had to go on losing money for a long time before hitting on a way to achieve a steady supply of sellable films . |
| 21 | His header , in injury time before the interval , brought a hardly deserved Cup exit for the £60-a-week part-timers on a night when Gloucester proved there really was sporting life locally beyond Kingsholm . |
| 22 | They 'll often put up with dripping taps and wobbly shelves for quite some time before being motivated to fix them . |
| 23 | And at his back are China 's octogenarian power-brokers , biding their time before throwing him to the wolves . |
| 24 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 25 | Greatness trickled from the corpus of his image , his career now like a gutshot that was going to take its time before killing . |
| 26 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |
| 27 | It was only a matter of time before the ultimate blonde bombshells of designer fashion and pop joined forces . |
| 28 | But the Inter City Firm from West Ham were around a long time before the Service Crew . |
| 29 | It was some time before the fashion magazines and newspapers started to write about this street culture , but when THE FACE wrote a big feature on the subject in its July 1983 issue the floodgates opened . |
| 30 | He listened for some time before judging it safe to tiptoe downstairs . |