Example sentences of "for some 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 . |