Example sentences of "before [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 3 | ‘ Good bye , Granny , I 'll try to be a good girl , ’ I sobbed before I stood back for the undertaker to screw down the lid . |
| 4 | ‘ And in that order , too , ’ Ruth laughed , ‘ because it was ages before she came back for her husband . ’ |
| 5 | For about six weeks before she set off for France , the long way via Cape Town , they made love feverishly . |
| 6 | Well that was before you coped out for him were n't it ? |
| 7 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 8 | But it was before they went in for all the cryptonyms and digraphs and five-letter codes because that 's what computers like … ’ |
| 9 | They wanted to get in the diocesan surveyor to have a look at it before they shelled out for repairs . |
| 10 | She was spending the night with him before he went off for a walking weekend in Derbyshire . |
| 11 | In the earlier years of living with her he had sometimes left her a note speared on the kitchen tap before he went out for his walk — stirred and perhaps even drawn by the sight of her plain , flushed face in bed , which had begun to acquire in sleep a look of distress and disappointment . |
| 12 | Before he stepped up for the most nerve-shattering moment of his career Guennady Grishin had kept his nerve to fire the Russians into a 4-3 advantage . |
| 13 | His political position in the USA had , however , begun to weaken even before he set out for Paris . |