Example sentences of "that [adv] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what 's the average b cost per box gon na be ? five X plus two Y you better write that down before our brains refuse to accept any more information . |
| 2 | The choices are both a reflection of his inner confusion , and a statement of his determination to let his curiosity run wherever it would - and that long before ‘ mixed ’ courses were popular . |
| 3 | I would say that three months is about the maximum , and that long before this period is up the confection , like a fresh fruit sorbet stored in the deep freeze , has lost its exquisite flavour and the edge has gone from the sharp scent . |
| 4 | In tracing that elusive ancestor the family historian therefore needs to be aware that long before the age of the railways people did sometimes travel long distances and that it was very common for men , women and adolescents to move within a few miles radius of their birthplace . |
| 5 | Probably the clue to the most plausible explanation — and the one put forward by the man most likely to know , his jockey Dick Francis — lies in the fact that just before he slid to the ground Devon Loch pricked his ears , in the way that a horse might do just before jumping a fence — or on suddenly hearing an unfamiliar noise . |
| 6 | Yes but surely they thought that through before they got to the stage that I mean even with the mortgage |
| 7 | Mr Justice Simon Brown said that shortly before the tribunal came to its decision in this case a tribunal chaired by Professor Jackson took a different approach in a similar case , Syed Jabar Hussain Shah . |
| 8 | We owe much to the Annales Cambriæ , for example , and would gladly know more of whatever lay behind the Norman chronicler William of Jumièges ' statement that shortly before his conquest of England Swegen visited Rouen and agreed with Duke Richard II that booty taken by the Danes was to be sold through the Normans , who would provide a refuge where wounded men could recuperate . |
| 9 | But to do so meant passing through Fen 's cabin , and she 'd tried that once before and been caught out . |
| 10 | But Stewart said that even before he was convicted , vital information from other pilots about near-misses was already drying up because of fears of reprisals . |
| 11 | He had been unpopular in the city since an inquiry in 1321 which led to the curbing of the city 's liberties ; the citizens had probably helped Mortimer to escape from the Tower , and Froissart , who was a Hainaulter himself and may have written on good authority , said that even before Isabella landed she had received secret assurances of support from them . |
| 12 | All Aitken 's evidence — uncontradicted by any other evidence — confirms that well before Curtis Brown received the £500 , instructions had been given as to the charitable destination of the money . |
| 13 | It was so skilfully managed that almost before Lindsey knew what was happening the pressure of his hand was drawing her away . |