Example sentences of "before [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see myself on the roof of our house , as , for the last time , I spread the couscous out to dry on a sheet in the sun before my journey to London : I could see the village below me : the tops of the trees , the minaret , the ancient wall which ran round my village . |
| 2 | I stood before my blonde other self , wondering at my calmness , contemplating my clothes on the English boy 's friend . |
| 3 | She has also predicted her own death a week before my return to Achnacarry . |
| 4 | To this day just to see or hear the word ‘ hermaphrodite ’ is sufficient to make those luminous pictures shimmer before my eyes . |
| 5 | Before my marriage I used to be very active and very talkative but after my marriage , when I went to Pakistan — there you have to wear the Burkha . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , Frank , what is your mission appointment going to be ’ ? asked the Superior General just two weeks before my ordination . |
| 7 | The other day , for instance , it was the portrait of Miss Jekyll , the lady gardener , that flashed before my inner eye . |
| 8 | There is a willow before my house . |
| 9 | The shadowy , half-apprehended faces of new deities float before my eyes , and I have wondered whether Apollo and Diana are not immortal presences wheresoever there are awful trees and alternating spaces of cool or sunlit lawn … . |
| 10 | I was back home before my mother returned from her little holiday . |
| 11 | ‘ Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes ; |
| 12 | More literally translated that verse runs like this : ‘ I may cover his face with the present that goes before my face ; and afterwards I shall see his face ; perhaps he will lift up my face . ’ |
| 13 | Before my marriage , I had to arrange a visit to the mikva . |
| 14 | I managed to get down the last two words of the preceding paragraph before my stomach over-boiled into my mouth . |
| 15 | When I was eighteen , about six months before my A levels , I stopped eating for about three months , then every now and then , about every week , I 'd binge really heavily . |
| 16 | ‘ Long before my time , when my great-grandmother was a young girl , she would bring the men at the mill their dinners hot under a covered tray , ’ he said earnestly . |
| 17 | As nearly all the children had freckles , I felt as if I were seeing spots before my eyes , and drew Mickey Mice in a trance , my hand and pen moving mechanically through a misty ocean of freckles , wave upon wave , every freckle asking for Mickey Mouse . |
| 18 | Apparently , a day or so before my arrival , the children of Navan had been entertained at the centre by a man dressed-up as Mickey Mouse . |
| 19 | An image of Liubov Charents , that tall , leonine Georgian soprano , flashed before my eyes . |
| 20 | I see blood before my eyes , and am often dizzy . |
| 21 | The graceful , dying face stayed before my eyes . |
| 22 | I 've suddenly remembered that the programme that really infuriated me , when I was tired and wet and Paddy Ashdown was getting away with sheer murder before my eyes , and the polls looked terminal for the Tories , and I was beginning to think that the whole thing was rigged against us , was not the BBC at all . |
| 23 | Made me ashamed before my people ! |
| 24 | We went straight to my home , and there , before my parents , Leslie pulled me on to his knee and said : ‘ Will you marry me ? ’ |
| 25 | This case began before my use of LM 's and I prescribed Lycopodium 6C three times daily which dealt with the symptoms within a few days . |
| 26 | I remember I saw , two or three Years before my Acquaintance with her commenced , a Book about the Size of a common Copy-Book ( but something thicker ) fill 'd with Poems of her writing , that much pleas 'd me . |
| 27 | on collecting my T-shirt and participants instructions a few days before the event , I was rather alarmed to discover that we were expected to meet at Alexander Stadium at 7.45 a.m. on the Sunday morning , a time that I did n't really know existed even before my maternity leave ! |
| 28 | A campesinos ' strike , which had paralysed Cuzco two weeks before my arrival , had had the rallying cry , ‘ ¡ Por tierra , paz , precios justos ! ’ |
| 29 | In early 1986 , my foot finally healed and I began to train as if I was as fit as I had been before my injury . |
| 30 | As we passed out of the bar it was raining again and all Madrid 's lights were swimming before my eyes , reflected on the street . |