Example sentences of "before i got " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything western was frowned upon , so I thought I 'd give it a bit of time before I got into my trousers and things . |
| 2 | SHE : I was going to say , if you 'd let me , that it was very hot before I got back . |
| 3 | But before I got to the end of it I burst into tears . |
| 4 | She has encouraged me to talk about what happened before I got to that stage , and to think about what might have led up to it . |
| 5 | Perhaps he 'd risked time to practise with a few shots before I got there . |
| 6 | It began with a dream I had just before I got up . |
| 7 | I died a thousand deaths before I got him ashore , but eventually , at the fourth attempt , I managed to beach the fish . |
| 8 | Even before I got to understand guilt , I used to walk about the house muttering , ‘ You 're a subject for guilt , boy , a subject for guilt . ’ |
| 9 | A. T. I passed for Sergeant seventeen years before I got made up . |
| 10 | It was 30th December , I did catch a bus before I got to Charing Cross Station , it was good old No. 30 , for Fulham . |
| 11 | Before I got turned on |
| 12 | I was sitting upright in a pine coffin high on a marble pedestal — Yes , it was the one I 'd dreamt the night before I got my results . |
| 13 | I waited for three buses to go past before I got on to one . |
| 14 | … half the year had gone , the clear smoke-free distances of early summer a thing of the past , and midsummer day over , before I got the first clue . |
| 15 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 16 | We were circling Stockport before I got my breath back ! |
| 17 | But , says Frank , ‘ a few weeks before I got to see a specialist I passed what looked like a bucket-full of blood into the toilet . |
| 18 | ‘ Before I got on the plane , I had to treat a woman on the island of St Thomas , when she fell from a balcony , fracturing her skull . |
| 19 | ‘ Before I got in the first team , ’ he says , ‘ I was asking myself over and over again : ‘ can I really do it ? ’ . |
| 20 | I watched them before I got the job and I 'm not going to stop watching them . |
| 21 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 22 | However , I had hardly got started before I got the first complaint . |
| 23 | There is no doubt in my mind that I can be the player I was before I got injured . |
| 24 | Nothing put me off , I 'm happy to say , but in the years before I got the chance to enjoy what I did for a living , I still had to pay the rent . |
| 25 | It was a long time before I got the fame I was looking for . |
| 26 | I was packing my kit when it dawned on me that the squad session would be over before I got there and that I would be concerned mainly with being kitted out as a member of the World Cup squad ’ . |
| 27 | She had said , on her first morning with him , ‘ Mrs Kendrick and me always had a cup of coffee together before I got started , nice and friendly like . ’ |
| 28 | Bill Francis had rung me from Marcus half an hour before I got back . |
| 29 | ‘ Was n't I the best prospect Bermondsey 'ad for a long time before I got me wound ? ’ he asked . |
| 30 | Before I got married I was living in the London Palace and there was something like three hundred and sixty girls there . |