Example sentences of "before we [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew it was a mistake before we got to Fez . |
| 2 | They threw us out of China before we got to Tibet . ’ |
| 3 | Long before we got to Moscow everything was ‘ off ’ the already limited menu . |
| 4 | I came in an ambulance with a patient — I had to do an emergency tracheotomy before we got to hospital . ’ |
| 5 | I was quite sick on the train before we got to Euston , and have not liked long train journeys since . |
| 6 | When we were children , before we went to school , |
| 7 | We had a gas copper , which was lit before we went to school . |
| 8 | Every morning before we went to school , we all had to take a bucket appropriate to our size and run a relay from the communal tap to the barrels until they were full . |
| 9 | Well I tried to tidy it up before we went to school and they were flinging it all out again and there just was n't time ! |
| 10 | CO-HOSTS Australia were one of only two countries not to have finalised their World Cup line-up before we went to press . |
| 11 | Mummy often read to us before we went to bed , ‘ William ’ stories were our favourite and hers . |
| 12 | Before we went to bed we took the calf down to the stable to its mother . |
| 13 | I said no , it was just that before we went to bed last night , Aunt Kit had decided to look for her money . |
| 14 | And , of course , when we had a shooting-party , it was more like midnight before we went to bed . |
| 15 | before we went to bed yeah . |
| 16 | St Richards was fun and strict , with not enough to eat and high academic standards ; I developed a crush on the assistant matron who had a phenomenally large chest ; I liked her because she used to sit on the ends of our beds and talk to us before we went to sleep . |
| 17 | ‘ Graham took second place at Watkins Glen before we went to South Africa for the last race . |
| 18 | We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome . |
| 19 | ‘ I wish you had known your mother in her youth , before we moved to New York . |
| 20 | That was before we could afford a ‘ better house ’ , before Mum got a job , before we moved to Exeter . |
| 21 | It was about a year before we moved to Brisbane , so they must only have been about eight years old . |