Example sentences of "before [pron] [vb past] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
| 2 | Lydia looked at the picture before she looked at the signature . |
| 3 | ‘ My mother , just before she died at the age of fifty . ’ |
| 4 | As usual , he was at his desk before she arrived at the office , and , as always , she felt that brief but undeniable shock of pleasure at seeing him . |
| 5 | Turn round ! girl , ’ and swung her round by the shoulders , and while holding her with one hand she ripped the pieces of tape from the end of each plait , before she tore at the hair until it hung in uneven strands ; then she almost lifted Millie from the floor as , using both hands now , she drew the strands together and began forming them into a tight rope-like plait . |
| 6 | Before we looked at the Fort , we sat in a chai shop , sipping hot tea and reading out loud from Inayat Khan 's chronicle . |
| 7 | Just before we arrived at the station , the lights came on . |
| 8 | We finished just before we arrived at the main gate of the chateau . |
| 9 | Before they left at the end of their week , Alastair and Stuart presented them with Scottish Nuclear baseball caps and T-shirts . |
| 10 | He matured into a distinguished mathematician who enriched many branches of the science before he died at the age of only 44 from a ruptured appendix . |
| 11 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |
| 12 | just before he arrived at the school Victor Gollancz left its staff , ejected because he tried to rouse boys ' minds by heady and daring political argument . |
| 13 | He saw the King to the gates and , coming back , heard the clangour of Elfswitha 's malevolence before he arrived at the door of their chamber . |
| 14 | Before it arrived at the Bate Collection , all that was known about the William Smith harpsichord ( illus.1 ) was to be found in a brief summary in Boalch 's Makers of the harpsichord and clavichord . |