Example sentences of "before she come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three days before she came back , I cleaned the flat , bought a new jacket and five bright new cotton shirts , stayed sober , worked like hell on the magazine in a way that made Francis ‘ gasp and stretch his eyes ’ . |
| 2 | And she had so perfected this technique of politely disappearing , that she had to live almost half her life before she came to realize that she had almost disappeared to her own self ! |
| 3 | Only the walls heard this delirious talk , but I was suddenly seized by a guilty fear , and became convinced that the two children were taking it in and that it was ringing in Aisha 's ears at work , and I rushed to pack my suitcase before she came back . |
| 4 | The patient had been living before she came to London on the outskirts of a town in Bangladesh . |
| 5 | She had a haemorrhage just before she came in . |
| 6 | Had Vic and Emily been back to the shed before she came on here ? |
| 7 | She said it was necessary to defrost it and turn it off before she came to hospital . |
| 8 | His wife answered and I heard a background conversation before she came back to the phone . |
| 9 | This bitch was also mated before she came into quarantine in this country , where she produced a large litter of ten . |
| 10 | But did you ask her about her life before she came to London ? ’ |
| 11 | We had never met her before she came , yet she immediately called us Mummy and Daddy , and still writes to us in this way from Nigeria . |
| 12 | The substitution probably took place before she came here . ’ |
| 13 | In spite of this , it was half an hour before she came downstairs dressed up to the nines in a pin-striped trouser-suit , her hair caught up in a turban of white silk . |
| 14 | Mother went out early the next morning , and it was nearly seven o'clock before she came home . |
| 15 | Before she came to Yorkshire , she had not liked anybody . |
| 16 | She seemed poised to make a speech , then and there , in the middle of Tottenham Court Road , but all she said , before she came forward to join us , was : ‘ Art can be a snare and a delusion . ’ |
| 17 | He told me before she came that she was asking for somewhere secret to stay for a short time . |
| 18 | Nenna had just time to say , I must be going , before she came back , tottering at a kind of dignified slant , and holding a large tin of cheese straws . |
| 19 | He wondered if he ought to wait , but he wanted to get back to Rochester before she came afloat . |
| 20 | The house was well-kept and clean and even the garden looked well-kept , which her uncle said had been an awful mess before she came . |
| 21 | It took half an hour before she came across it , moored by a small wooden landing stage . |
| 22 | ‘ She held down quite a high-powered job in London before she came to me . ’ |
| 23 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 24 | ‘ I already knew them before she came . ’ |
| 25 | Did n't you ask her anything before she came ? |
| 26 | Karen , who had been warned before she came to Ireland that some things in the household were extremely pukka , nevertheless marvelled at the ease with which Jessica changed her plans , and marvelled at her attitude . |
| 27 | She got rid of that nonsense somewhere down the way before she came to me . |
| 28 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 29 | Did she ever talk about her life before she came to England ? |
| 30 | ‘ And in that order , too , ’ Ruth laughed , ‘ because it was ages before she came back for her husband . ’ |