Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] time before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 2 | ‘ They had known each other for some time before they married , though , had n't they ? ’ ventured Greg . |
| 3 | This polychrome type of design seems to have been invented at Knossos , where it was fashionable for some time before it was adopted generally in the east of Crete . |
| 4 | She found the trug in the outhouse , not the kitchen , and cleaned it before trotting off towards the rectory , which was quite a long walk from Vetch Street , through a rowdy street market where an organ-grinder and his monkey were performing , and a Punch and Judy man stood on the corner , and Sally-Anne — no longer McAllister now that she was out of the house — for all of her advanced years stood and watched Mr Punch for some time before she guiltily remembered what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 5 | ‘ I was there for some time before you arrived , Caroline . |
| 6 | He became very depressed for some time before he could reassess himself , start to use his considerable abilities and begin courting his wife again . |
| 7 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 8 | Indeed , it should be emphasized that Picasso had been dissatisfied with the limitations imposed on pictorial volumes by a scientific or linear system of perspective for some time before he became aware of the fact that Cézanne 's painting suggested a new concept of form and space . |
| 9 | He had been sitting by the fire for some time before he decided to open the letter . |
| 10 | She stumbled on in this manner for some time before I talked her into accepting a chair and a cuppa . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You do n't have to put a cartridge in each time before you fire . ’ |
| 13 | So it should n't be that much of a problem but I do recommend erm this weekend , amongst the many other things , to look at the C C Q , or at some time before you go out in the big wide world and do it for real , to look at the C C Q and pull it apart so you know what each box is actually for . |
| 14 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |