Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Lee from ENERGIZE thinks Electro is on its way back , and could speak for many hours about the halcyon days before Electro meant toddlers break-dancing in the streets , title-dropping classics like Man Parrish 's ‘ Hip Hop Be Bop ’ , early Mantronix , and Shannon . |
| 2 | ‘ I still ca n't work out how they got away with it because I 'd only left it outside the tent for a few moments before it vanished . |
| 3 | She considered the question for a few minutes before she replied , ‘ Barbados takes a bit of getting used to , but its good points far outweigh the bad . |
| 4 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
| 5 | Government statistics show that the February 1993 seasonally unadjusted figure for unemployment in Scotland stood at 257,092 : 85,000 unemployed were not claiming benefit in the four weeks before the Government 's February figures , but were also seeking work , according to the Labour Force Survey . |
| 6 | The most common experiences in the two years before a cancer is diagnosed are a significant loss or a sense of meaninglessness in the whole process of living . |
| 7 | ‘ Because there were two freak news-leaks in the forty-eight hours before he went . |
| 8 | The early church viewed deviations from accepted belief with distaste and , perhaps mindful of the persecutions directed against Christians by the Roman Emperors before they embraced Christianity , were more tolerant . |
| 9 | They had checked Angela 's diary for the two weeks before she had gone missing and were talking to everyone in it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Dawn , please get Angela 's diary for the two weeks before she went missing — and last week — and list every date she had . |
| 11 | At the same time the success of the West German foreign minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , in getting an agreement to bring out the thousands of East Germans from the West German embassies in Prague and Warsaw in the 24 hours before the polls closed boosted the results of his small Free Democrat party . |
| 12 | you 've had a baby during the 12 months before your treatment began . |
| 13 | They took breath for a few moments before they emerged , after the third volley , to finish what they had begun , the Welsh swordsmen boiling out of the bushes joyously on their heels . |
| 14 | He sat in the driver 's seat to get the feel for a few moments before he started it up . |
| 15 | In toads , for instance , the males sit on the backs of females for a few days before the female lays her eggs . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , and I do n't know if you 're going to play any games with the younger boys before it gets dark — ’ |
| 17 | In his mind 's eye he relived their love-making of a few hours before and the picture of Michael lying underneath him as he penetrated him rose in his mind . |
| 18 | It was only a matter of a few hours before the stranger had been slotted into the local kinship network ; and the recognition of kinship was mutual . |
| 19 | ‘ We have demonstrated extraordinary patience and we are open to further negotiations in the 30 days before the duties become effective . ’ |
| 20 | Now we in the Harrogate Civic Society would like to see the rest of the district allocation reduced at least to fifty hectares which has something to do with the forecast requirement on the grounds of past take-up , and I believe it is nearer the original figure for the rest of the district floated by the county in the initial consultations before amendment was made to the allocation between Greater York and the rest of the district . |
| 21 | In response Fujimori criticised Amnesty International and the United States human rights body Americas Watch for failing to denounce the activities of Sendero Luminoso or human rights violations in the eight years before he came to power . |
| 22 | They back off six inches and then charge like two bulls , with the female grasping the male by the bottom lip for a few seconds before he escapes . |
| 23 | You get the feeling that this is a film made as a gift from the writers to Brando , who probably fancied the idea of a few laughs before it 's too late . |
| 24 | You get the feeling that this is a film made as a gift from the writers to Brando , who probably fancied the idea of a few laughs before it 's too late . |
| 25 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 26 | Cliff , the concrete contractor , and Tessa , the schoolteacher , were flipped off the paddle boat in a suck hole and held underwater by the boiling currents for a few seconds before their life-jackets brought them spluttering to the surface . |
| 27 | Again , the astonishingly sophisticated metallurgy developed in the Andean region during the two millennia before the Spanish Conquest was not motivated to satisfy material appetites . |
| 28 | US trade representative Carla Hills said : ‘ We have demonstrated extraordinary patience and are open to further negotiation in the 30 days before the tariffs become effective . ’ |
| 29 | US trade representative Carla Hills said : ‘ We have demonstrated extraordinary patience and are open to further negotiation in the 30 days before the tariffs become effective . ’ |
| 30 | No father ( of a case or control ) had accumulated a recorded dose of more than 5 mSv before his child was conceived , and no father had been monitored at any time in the four years before his child was conceived . |