Example sentences of "before [pers pn] [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | BEFORE I sign off until September , here 's a timely story about Mr Major 's caring Britain . |
2 | She said : ‘ It is a trip of a lifetime and something I want to do before I settle down with a career . |
3 | Before I set off for the station for the train to Puno , I loaded up with imodium to seal my loose , nervous bowels ; folded my chain and felt its weight in my hand . |
4 | ‘ It wo n't be long before I set out on my expedition and I do n't think he 'll be fit to run away from me . ’ |
5 | erm , ca before I go on to that can I just erm tell you what erm , where we worked ? |
6 | Well , erm , I was just trying to do it , do it , do the example four , whilst I was here , so that if I have a problem , I , I can ask about it before I go on to example five . |
7 | I had six months to fill in before I go up to Cambridge . |
8 | Yeah well , I do n't , I do n't get a dinner before I go up to bed . |
9 | So er to look at it er another way , w I , I 'll stop before I go back to the erm slides , because I want to show you a few on you know erm er the way that money 's worked over the last forty years , but if you look at index-linked certificates , cos somebody mentioned that , are they worth having ? |
10 | Before I go back to playing the game I suggest you visit you 're local software store and plead them to show you a demo . |
11 | So it was maybe a half-hour before I go back to the main adobe . |
12 | I know how busy they are when I come off the road off a night , and I know busy because they are before I go out on a morning , and erm , it seems like they 're never likely to get stuck from time to time though . |
13 | I probably smile slightly before I go out of the room and come back downstairs to commence : |
14 | Before before I come back to you Cosmo , before I come back to you |
15 | Before before I come back to you Cosmo , before I come back to you |
16 | which I shall not attempt to conceal from you , but before I come down to the details let me say that Darwinism occupies such a central position in evolutionary biology — in biology as a whole , not just in evolutionary biology but in the whole of biology — that any important , new idea in biology has to be , to some extent , judged by its compatibility with , or its contradictions of , the Darwinian position . |
17 | It 's eleven o'clock before I turn around after finishing the kitchen . |
18 | People keep saying it 's going to take time before I get back to where I was , but I want it to happen sooner . |
19 | I 've just got to get them out of the way before I get back to work . ’ |
20 | If he has I 've got to think of something to cook that he can finish off cooking so he can eat it before I get back from aerobics so I can stick mine in the microwave to warm up . |
21 | Now , er , before I hand over to Frank er , a word about the dividend er , in recent years we 've paid an interim dividend which was half the total of the previous year 's dividends and so , er , had a built-in increase . |
22 | Before I hand over to Dave to tell his side of the story , I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dave , Richard , Liz and all the JM staff at sites around the country who helped to organise this event which has raised so much for our Charity of the Year . |
23 | Before I stand back from this chapter , a summary . |
24 | He is not to walk out on me before I run out of steam . |
25 | Before I move on to a fuller description of helicopter radios , let's summarise the above : |
26 | Before I move on to other contributions , can I remind everybody that we are dealing with the Employee Resources Report . |
27 | However , Beinn Alligin provides no such logistical problems and it 's a fabulous start to the walk up the Abhainn Coire Mhic Nobuil through a forest , again passing close to some splendid waterfalls , before you veer off to the left and head towards the dauntingly steep corrie that is the most direct route to the summit . |
28 | ‘ I suppose that you will be gracious enough first to tell me how you arrived here , and secondly to allow me to take you home before you end up in another alley . |
29 | And the other point made by the consumer adviser is try to have a good look at what you 've chosen before you walk out of the shop . |
30 | Did n't you even stop to consider that , before you set off for an evening drive ? ’ |