Example sentences of "before [pers pn] went to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to have a bike before I went to school . |
| 2 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 3 | I was an only child , so I daresay I got among her feet a lot before I went to school . |
| 4 | Then I went skipping round to the cottage to see Miss Louise before I went to school . |
| 5 | ‘ When I went to school , I were n't above eight or nine year old and I used to have to go hawking milk , as I told you , before I went to school ; and then I used to take the empty cans to school , bring them home at dinner-time . |
| 6 | And er , and that was , er go and did this before I went to school . |
| 7 | And before I went to school on the Monday , drove back down the marsh and went in this forest trying to find it . |
| 8 | Just before I went to bed one night , I decided to have a shower . |
| 9 | I was out on the gallery just before I went to bed , looking at all the tapestries and statuettes . |
| 10 | One night before I went to bed I asked her . |
| 11 | I mainly used to chase it in me mate 's house , but sometimes when I got home , I 'd have a toot before I went to bed . |
| 12 | Dinner came ; for me the meal was a very hasty one , and before I went to bed that night I had finished reading the manuscript . |
| 13 | Just before I went to bed , we heard the sound of a big gun on the marshes . |
| 14 | Before I went to bed , I took a dose of the drug and became Doctor Jekyll once more . |
| 15 | It varied ; sometimes before I went to bed , sometimes after . ’ |
| 16 | I took some yesterday , I was and I took some last night before I went to bed and I took two this morning . |
| 17 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 18 | I flung open my double-glazed windows before I went to sleep and the first call to prayer of the Muslim day was a strident awakening . |
| 19 | Before I went to sleep I heard Glemnitz talking quite amiably to someone about rugger : |
| 20 | In bed before I went to sleep I fantasized about London and what I 'd do there when the city belonged to me . |
| 21 | It was dark and windy outside , and before I went to sleep I could hear a dog growling in the distance . |
| 22 | Er er well , I would read for an hour before I went to sleep . |
| 23 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd been an assistant stage manager and a deputy stage manager at the Northcott Theatre , Exeter , before I went to drama school . |
| 25 | Ryan used to wheel it down before I went to hospital he used to wheel it down but he , now I see he rides it down . |
| 26 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |
| 27 | She worked out sums on her way to school and in the bath and before she went to sleep . |
| 28 | It occurred to her , just before she went to sleep , that she disliked Miss Sandra Bamfield as much as she had ever disliked anyone … except maybe Tommy Bellinger . |
| 29 | ‘ Before she went to university she had great expectations but when she got there she was disappointed . |
| 30 | While Nana denied that there were such things as duppies and forbade Martha to look under her old iron cot for them before she went to bed , Mada Joyce was expert on ghouls , ghosts , spirits and apparitions of all kinds , and had known a woman in another village who had actually seen the skinless old hag who sucked babies ' blood reach into the cradle of her new-born child and disappear with a shriek when she touched the Bible on the infant 's pillow . |