Example sentences of "before [pron] went [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was changing , of course , before I went to the Meeting House . |
| 2 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 3 | Well it , it was n't funny that day before I went to the that ear |
| 4 | no , no , no this is the minute which was posted to you before I went to the States |
| 5 | Well aware of the undertaking he added ‘ The day before I went for a load of beers to prepare for the ordeal . ’ |
| 6 | An event that stands out occurred at Easter 1922 , just before I went into the Boys ' School . |
| 7 | I did n't think before I went into the recruiting office and became a marine , and I did n't think now . |
| 8 | I am particularly afraid of strange dentists , so before I went into the RAF I made sure my teeth were in order . |
| 9 | I wo n't read it all out , but it was given to me before I went into the Air Force . |
| 10 | I took them off before I went through the floor into the dock . ’ |
| 11 | Before I went through the door , I looked back — at all the life that existed only here in the Star Zoo , and in no other place in all the Galaxy ! |
| 12 | Fortunately an assistant stopped mew before I went through the roof . |
| 13 | ‘ Before I went in the ring , I had to spend half a day just cooling down my adrenaline . |
| 14 | That 's before I went in the army . |
| 15 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 16 | It finished 'is boxin'. 'E was goin' ter fight fer a title before 'e went in the army . ’ |
| 17 | Did Mary Antoinette sign anything before she went to the guillotine , I wondered . |
| 18 | She 's bright — she was at Bristol University before she went to the secretarial college . |
| 19 | However , in 1989 things started to go all wrong as she developed a hook in the very week before she went to the English at Burnham and Berrow Much of the season , by her high standards , was bitterly disappointing but , by dint of " plugging away " , she began to rediscover her form during the week of the English Intermediate won by Lora Fairclough . |
| 20 | ‘ She must have planned it before she went to the hospital . ’ |
| 21 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 22 | You must have decided to follow her before she went into the school grounds , because otherwise you would n't have opted out of the swimming . |
| 23 | she may have been unconmscious before she went into the water . |
| 24 | She had to get her before she went through the gates and she was thankful for the bright moonlight . |
| 25 | She did n't answer : Nick saw in her face the struggle she always had with herself before she went in the water . |
| 26 | Yes ; and that 's what it was ; a badge of manhood ; because you sensed that before you went into the mine , because you were wearing the moleskin trousers . |
| 27 | Er one time the locksmiths had a rise from ni eighteen , twenty to twenty-one a man , it was a big rise but the locksmiths ' union they altered it from to twenty and a half , twenty-one , twenty-one and a half , three rises before you went from a lad to a man 's raise , you know . |
| 28 | My parents often mentioned their remorse , I was speaking so well before we went to the Russian Orthodox Easter Service . |
| 29 | Sweetheart , I told Mother I was falling in love with you long before we went to the island . |
| 30 | And erm it was our turn to feed them before we went to the farm every morning you see . |