Example sentences of "before i come " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was unemployed for nearly two years before I came here , I do know what it 's like . |
| 2 | Why just today , you see , before I came out , she insisted a friend would be coming to see her , a friend who died — so sad — a few weeks ago . |
| 3 | ‘ Before I came here I worked in Cumbria and Dorset . |
| 4 | ‘ Before I came , ’ Catherine said , ‘ I had thought of your function in biblical terms — to feed the hungry and succour the needy . |
| 5 | Believe it or not , and I did n't before I came out at work , it is possible to change the people around you , just by honestly being who you are . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ Kate says apologetically , ‘ they said I did n't need to bother to learn any before I came . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I remember the very exciting feeling I got when I first saw one of these magazines before I came out . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I 'd never done weights before I came to Chelsea , and my wife gives me better things to eat than bananas . |
| 9 | ‘ I suffered an attack two years before I came here — I shall not take it again , that is certain . |
| 10 | ‘ It was before I came here , but I heard a bit from Bee Moore … |
| 11 | ‘ And I had to lose a good , good woman before I came to my senses . |
| 12 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 13 | So's to be out of the house before I came into it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I worked very hard on my game for two months before I came here , everything revolved around this week . |
| 15 | It was January before I came back . |
| 16 | BILLY BREMNER : ( Leeds , Hull , Doncaster and Scotland — 1959-81 ) : ‘ He was a hero at Elland Road a long time before I came into football . |
| 17 | ‘ The fire had been lit before I came to the office . |
| 18 | I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class . |
| 19 | . Sir I am the present overseer but these things was before I came to the Parish . |
| 20 | I heard about them long before I came to live here . |
| 21 | " I used to think these places were terrible , before I came here , but it 's marvellous , " says one of the mothers whose two boys regard the refuge as " our new house " . |
| 22 | " Was Mr Amsterdam very attentive to you before I came ? " |
| 23 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 24 | That 's what I was told before I came . |
| 25 | It was not very long before I came to see it as simply one fad among others . |
| 26 | ‘ She died before I came over , Mrs Sutherland . |
| 27 | It was a considerable while before I came to know more Tory politicians and acted as an adviser , not to the party , but to a great many Tories . |
| 28 | I never thought about going into shops and stealing other people 's things before I came here ; that never crossed my mind . |
| 29 | What was it he did to make you so terribly angry with him before I came ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , I phoned Adai before I came here . |