Example sentences of "[adv] before [noun] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opinion such as this was well established long before Hitler rose to power and there can be little doubt that Germanisation was one of the many items of baggage the Prussians left behind for the Nazis to snatch . |
| 2 | Crudely , the sense of blurred boundaries , of disrupted hierarchies , of disrespectful , intertextual playfulness , of the delight in superficiality and the wearing of cultural masks — all these were fundamental to the strategies of camp long before postmodernism lurched into view . |
| 3 | ‘ Have n't you washed your face yet , Sam ? ’ asked his mother just before Aunty arrived for tea . |
| 4 | She was then shown a picture taken at the farewell party at Champion Spark Plugs just before Paula went on maternity leave . |
| 5 | She was then shown a picture taken at the farewell party at Champion Spark Plugs just before Paula went on maternity leave . |
| 6 | She was then shown a picture taken at the farewell party at Champion Spark Plugs just before Paula went on maternity leave . |
| 7 | She was then shown a picture taken at the farewell party at Champion Spark Plugs just before Paula went on maternity leave . |
| 8 | That was still before people went to chokey for dodgy dealings , but he soured his own patch . |
| 9 | A few days later before Anne went to work her mother asked her to go for bread . |
| 10 | Tension existed even before Ceausescu came to power in 1965 , but relations between the two states have degenerated in a flurry of mutual recrimination , slander and public protest . |