Example sentences of "before [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The historical character of the Spanish state , by comparison , falls into the pattern , exemplified by France , of a centralized , interventionist institution that developed before strong independent economic forces in civil society had time to emerge . |
| 2 | That evening Don arrived at Amanda 's flat just before eight . |
| 3 | She had set off from Margate before eight o'clock and for a short time she fell asleep in his arms . |
| 4 | With the amount of work that was to be dealt with during the coming months his chances of getting away from the hospital much before eight or nine any evening were very slight . |
| 5 | We ca n't get up before eight o'clock , for until half past eight there is no daylight in our room … |
| 6 | This expedition began this morning almost an hour later than I had planned , despite my having completed my packing and loaded the ford with all necessary items well before eight o'clock . |
| 7 | The passengers returned well before eight o'clock in very good spirits , Mercer bringing with him a porter wheeling a case of highly superior bubbles for toasting the Unwins , success . |
| 8 | It is her ‘ bottom drawer ’ novel written before Eight Months on Ghazzah Street and Fludd , a big passionate French Revolution story which won the Sunday Express prize . |
| 9 | I actually remember one occasion when we did our three pieces before eight o'clock in the morning . |
| 10 | He had left home a little before eight , having put a cup of tea on the bedside table next to Lyn , walked through the village and climbed the fell . |
| 11 | Fifteen minutes before eight . |
| 12 | ‘ The girls can do the cleaning , ’ she told Mrs Dyson , and Anne and Sarah rarely left the shop before eight o'clock at night . |
| 13 | If the postman knocks on the door to delivery the only parcel you 've received in the past three years , you can guarantee it will be at just before eight on the first Saturday morning you 've had a chance to have a proper lie in for months . |
| 14 | ‘ About the same as usual ; he arrived just before eight and left around eleven . ’ |
| 15 | Anyway , there 's been a report from a chambermaid at the hotel ; she says she saw Alfred just before eight this morning , on his way up the street . |
| 16 | I made it back to Stuart Street just before eight . |
| 17 | Just before eight ? |
| 18 | ‘ But Dr Rowell never got here much before eight . ’ |
| 19 | Before eight o'clock that morning Fabia had left the hotel and was at Prague railway station . |
| 20 | I was a er I was on the it was er , before eight before I it was only two minutes to eight when I was er down the road at the |
| 21 | And then before eight o'clock then I would make myself a big meal , I 'd have a , a huge salad I 'd do tinned potatoes cos they were , on this diet tinned potatoes are n't fattening |
| 22 | he 's in there every morning before eight o'clock and he do n't leave there much before half past six , sometimes seven o'clock , and then the workers goes in on Saturdays and if he knows there 's nothing to do just walk around a crowded place and |
| 23 | there we go Blondie , Island of Lost Souls , taking us round to eighteen minutes before eight o'clock on a Tuesday night , a Radio Nottingham Sports Special , Notts on the Italia trail tonight . |
| 24 | Your not phoning Kerry now before eight |
| 25 | The plan left Amman , Jordan 's capital , just after midnight and landed at Gatwick shortly before eight this morning ; on board 57 Britons , 29 Americans , 4 Australians and 2 Canadians . |
| 26 | I was still laughing too much from from some comment that the Government did one one of their four promises was to was to put pri public transport before private roads . |
| 27 | You understand nothing but money and making a fine impression before rich people . |
| 28 | Beatty sighted Scheer 's fleet shortly before 16.40 and , being greatly outnumbered , turned north to join Jellicoe . |
| 29 | ‘ I never danced before neither , ’ he volunteered . |
| 30 | Before 1948 we used to pretend that all such countries were just copies of the United Kingdom , except that , in place of the monarch , they had a Governor-General , who , we assured ourselves and them , represented the monarch . |