Example sentences of "before they [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have all walked out on the movie before they saw how the tale ends . |
| 2 | It seemed ages before they sorted out the time . |
| 3 | When Galvone leapt aboard and seated himself beside his chief Hauser made his unsettling comment before they started up the rotors . |
| 4 | The writer may well have assumed that most book buyers already know of the existence of a writer called Ernest Hemingway , and even if they did not before they picked up the book , they would already have seen his name on the cover before turning to read this biographical sketch inside . |
| 5 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 6 | Small children scrambled for the scattered coins before they washed down the drains . |