Example sentences of "before [pers pn] 'd have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question . |
| 2 | This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use . |
| 3 | ‘ I know what you 're thinking , ’ she said before I 'd had a chance to say anything . |
| 4 | Before she 'd had a chance to react , to jump off the bed and snatch the towel , seize some kind of weapon to defend herself from whoever it was prowling around , the bedroom door swung open and the light clicked on . |
| 5 | ‘ For dropping you in at the deep end , before you 'd had a chance to get your bearings … ’ |
| 6 | After the match , Hastings gave a television interview , attended the official post-match briefing and found time to have a word with me all before he 'd had a shower . |