Example sentences of "before i [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 2 | Before I came to India , I had not realized that the English word ‘ paradise ’ was borrowed from the ancient Persian words pairi ( around ) and daeza ( a wall ) . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's funny , everybody could see me before I came to Spain . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I 'd never done weights before I came to Chelsea , and my wife gives me better things to eat than bananas . |
| 5 | Before I came to prison I thought I was introspective but ten minutes here and there is not enough to answer some of these questions |
| 6 | ‘ Even before I went to Italy and married Ludo I never really knew her . |
| 7 | I used to have a bike before I went to school . |
| 8 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 9 | I was an only child , so I daresay I got among her feet a lot before I went to school . |
| 10 | Then I went skipping round to the cottage to see Miss Louise before I went to school . |
| 11 | ‘ When I went to school , I were n't above eight or nine year old and I used to have to go hawking milk , as I told you , before I went to school ; and then I used to take the empty cans to school , bring them home at dinner-time . |
| 12 | And er , and that was , er go and did this before I went to school . |
| 13 | And before I went to school on the Monday , drove back down the marsh and went in this forest trying to find it . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you realize it 's two years , six months and six days since I saw you on to a train — possibly this very one — the day before I went to America ? |
| 15 | His speech was delivered by means of fingerspelling ( the mode adopted by all speakers who were each limited to ten minutes ) : Before I went to America I was rather one-sided , and opposed the teaching of speech too much ; but after entering the celebrated college at Washington , I saw that not only could speech be taught with much success , but that those educated on the combined system spoke better than those educated on the so-called pure oral method . |
| 16 | Just before I went to bed one night , I decided to have a shower . |
| 17 | I was out on the gallery just before I went to bed , looking at all the tapestries and statuettes . |
| 18 | One night before I went to bed I asked her . |
| 19 | I mainly used to chase it in me mate 's house , but sometimes when I got home , I 'd have a toot before I went to bed . |
| 20 | Dinner came ; for me the meal was a very hasty one , and before I went to bed that night I had finished reading the manuscript . |
| 21 | Just before I went to bed , we heard the sound of a big gun on the marshes . |
| 22 | Before I went to bed , I took a dose of the drug and became Doctor Jekyll once more . |
| 23 | It varied ; sometimes before I went to bed , sometimes after . ’ |
| 24 | I took some yesterday , I was and I took some last night before I went to bed and I took two this morning . |
| 25 | I got an eyelash stuck right inside fold , and I could n't er shift it for love nor money , it were there about two or three days before I went to doctors . |
| 26 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 27 | I flung open my double-glazed windows before I went to sleep and the first call to prayer of the Muslim day was a strident awakening . |
| 28 | Before I went to sleep I heard Glemnitz talking quite amiably to someone about rugger : |
| 29 | In bed before I went to sleep I fantasized about London and what I 'd do there when the city belonged to me . |
| 30 | It was dark and windy outside , and before I went to sleep I could hear a dog growling in the distance . |