Example sentences of "before now " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hurdle of post office reform has brought down French ministers of state before now , notably Pierre Lelong , who held the posts and telecommunications portfolio in Jacques Chirac 's government but was forced to resign after a long and bitter strike in 1974 . |
| 2 | But the real wonder of pop biopics is that no one has made a movie about Jim Morrison before now ( The Doors opens on March 15 ) . |
| 3 | As I have reminded groups before now , the reality of incarnation has been central to Catholic spirituality and practice ; that is not so true of other traditions . |
| 4 | ‘ I was weak , I could not get my breath , I was dizzy and my limbs were shaking , I have explained it all to you before now . |
| 5 | Did I forget things before now ? |
| 6 | He said that , besides reducing the tower 's elasticity — which may have prevented it crashing before now — the weight of the steel and lead could lead to disaster by causing the soggy ground to give way . |
| 7 | Had it not been for the financial support of the telecommunications giant , AT & T , and the local banker and real estate mogul , Malin Burnham , the ACOC would have been wound up long before now . |
| 8 | I 'd have known long before now if he was n't . ’ |
| 9 | My apologies for not having written to you before now . |
| 10 | Incidentally , I should before now have explained myself as regards my referring to ‘ Miss Kenton ’ . |
| 11 | We 've had trouble with that outfit before now . |
| 12 | Le Bugue is a place you 've probably never heard of before now : it 's in France , and they 're having a 16ft wide 6ft tall ramp along with a 12ft wide 4ft tall mini being constructed at a Summer Camp , along with some street ramps and handrails . |
| 13 | Nan 's no fool , and our precise Mr Peeble , who I am sure is quite used to pregnancies , will have detected something before now if not from the narration he has heard above his head over the past days . |
| 14 | If they were , these waters would have been invaded before now . |
| 15 | ‘ Never eat before now . |
| 16 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 17 | More farmers than ever before now own their farms . |
| 18 | Nonetheless it is perhaps surprising that the librarian has not crossed swords with the law over obscene and indecent literature before now . |
| 19 | Vaguely she wondered why the daily woman who had been with them for years had not put in an appearance before now , and listened in vain for the cheerful clatter of tea-cups in the passage outside . |
| 20 | Probably they did n't see a thing , and if they did , well , they 've both seen blokes in the bath before now — ’ |
| 21 | Ibanez have unleashed a couple of tape-driven units before now , but this is their first solid state effort . |
| 22 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 23 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 24 | Ulrich Steinhilper 's trilogy , Spitfire on my Tail , Ten Minutes to Buffalo and Full Circle have been reviewed in these pages before now and make stunning reading of the life and times of a Luftwaffe fighter pilot through his experiences as a prisoner of war . |
| 25 | ( And it need not be just RAF — FAA , RCAF , USAFF etc have all come here way before now . ) |
| 26 | He just did n't wear it before now , that 's all . |
| 27 | If she had n't been with him she 'd have been here before now . |
| 28 | She did not respond to this , but stared at him , until he spoke again , saying , ‘ I 'd have been along before now , but I heard about me father the very day when we last spoke , and so I had to go off straightaway to Newcastle . |
| 29 | She was at fault for not taking a hand in the business before now , she could have helped him , been her father 's right hand . |
| 30 | The reason the peseta has not blown before now may be because the Bank of Spain has been looking after its currency in a novel way . |