Example sentences of "before [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap . |
2 | I was before I came up in the world , true , but lower-middle-class , not working-class . |
3 | ‘ Well , the housemaid said something to me before I came in to prayers , and that just tickled me and I could n't help it . ’ |
4 | Erm just before I came in from school and we were home by about half three . |
5 | Believe it or not , and I did n't before I came out at work , it is possible to change the people around you , just by honestly being who you are . |
6 | I weighed eleven stone when I was in the Line : before I came out with that I weighed five stone ten . |
7 | I thought I 'd gone before I came out of my house but I had a feeling when I nearly got to their school that I ought to have again . |
8 | Well it 'd probably be the June or July before I went in for this exam , which they did n't hold very frequently and er then I had to pass this exam and that I could leave school in the August , Bank Holiday . |
9 | We fixed our first session for the following week , and with a little planning there could be a further session before I went back to Bristol for my first day return since being a resident . |
10 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
11 | his clothes by hand before I went back to work and of course I do n't have quite the same time |
12 | Last Wednesday , before I woke up on Thursday . |
13 | BEFORE I sign off until September , here 's a timely story about Mr Major 's caring Britain . |
14 | She said : ‘ It is a trip of a lifetime and something I want to do before I settle down with a career . |
15 | Before I fell out with your father , he told me some very nasty stories about the way you behaved at home ! |
16 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
17 | ‘ It wo n't be long before I set out on my expedition and I do n't think he 'll be fit to run away from me . ’ |
18 | erm , ca before I go on to that can I just erm tell you what erm , where we worked ? |
19 | Well , erm , I was just trying to do it , do it , do the example four , whilst I was here , so that if I have a problem , I , I can ask about it before I go on to example five . |
20 | I had six months to fill in before I go up to Cambridge . |
21 | Yeah well , I do n't , I do n't get a dinner before I go up to bed . |
22 | So er to look at it er another way , w I , I 'll stop before I go back to the erm slides , because I want to show you a few on you know erm er the way that money 's worked over the last forty years , but if you look at index-linked certificates , cos somebody mentioned that , are they worth having ? |
23 | Before I go back to playing the game I suggest you visit you 're local software store and plead them to show you a demo . |
24 | So it was maybe a half-hour before I go back to the main adobe . |
25 | I know how busy they are when I come off the road off a night , and I know busy because they are before I go out on a morning , and erm , it seems like they 're never likely to get stuck from time to time though . |
26 | I probably smile slightly before I go out of the room and come back downstairs to commence : |
27 | Before before I come back to you Cosmo , before I come back to you |
28 | Before before I come back to you Cosmo , before I come back to you |
29 | which I shall not attempt to conceal from you , but before I come down to the details let me say that Darwinism occupies such a central position in evolutionary biology — in biology as a whole , not just in evolutionary biology but in the whole of biology — that any important , new idea in biology has to be , to some extent , judged by its compatibility with , or its contradictions of , the Darwinian position . |
30 | It 's eleven o'clock before I turn around after finishing the kitchen . |