Example sentences of "[pron] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes a great deal of prestidigitatory skill to poison someone before your very eyes so to speak . ’ |
| 2 | Or someone before that ? |
| 3 | Or it might have been that he saw , in the younger screenplay writer , someone before whom all false reticence could be cast aside . |
| 4 | Has he already been out to dinner with someone before coming here ? |
| 5 | You must have enjoyed it , otherwise you would have told someone before now ! |
| 6 | Charles emptied his before continuing to castigate Neville Chamberlain . |
| 7 | The Prince rose and waved him round the table to the chair next to his before serving them both with the best wine the clerk had tasted in months . |
| 8 | Janice beamed at him and slipped an arm through his before turning to Shiona . |
| 9 | He poured tea for them both and drank his before relieving her curiosity . |
| 10 | Sir John asked as we warmed ourselves before the great fire whilst Lady Beatrice and Rachel served spiced wine . |
| 11 | In the empty streets we finally flagged down a taxi , prostrated ourselves before him and persuaded him to drive to the hitherto uncharted climes of Muswell Hill . |
| 12 | We also saw the ‘ Concubine 's Pool ’ where the Emperor 's favourite concubine used to bathe many centuries ago , and had a bath in the hot spring water ourselves before lunch . |
| 13 | Am I before a court ? , |
| 14 | I before the E except C. |
| 15 | But early on you see he when I before the war he 'd nothing was first of all a push bike |
| 16 | My Lords er that clearly is a very serious contribution to the Debate which has to be taken very seriously indeed , er an but I before er responding directly to the er er invitation from the er Minister , I , I just want to summarise very briefly what I think has been the outcome o of this Debate . |
| 17 | Watch somebody before trying it out yourself ? |
| 18 | I think even Billy knew you had to sleep with somebody before that happened . |
| 19 | So well , there 'll be somebody before weekend ! |
| 20 | The damage to the integrity of the US banking system caused by the feckless management of the savings and loans system — which before US financial deregulation did much the same job as our own building societies — has been so extensive that its impact often goes unstated . |
| 21 | As the Earl of Leicester is now dead , in whose keeping the King was by reason of the disturbance in the realm , and now by the favour of God the King is snatched out of his hands and raised again to his former estate , whereby with the common consent of the realm the King has caused all things attempted by the Earl for the diminution of the King 's right , honour and royal dignity to be revoked ; and whereas the forests north of Trent , which before the war in the time of the Earl were preserved whole and uninjured , have been disafforested and destroyed to the King 's disherison , the King commands the said Roger to re-afforest all the forests in his bailiwick as they were … before the war ; and if any part thereof ought of right to be disafforested , the King is prepared to do full justice . |
| 22 | One , seldom more than three feet high and called by Ray the Dwarf Red Rose , had small flowers and rounded buds which before opening appeared ‘ as if they had been clipp 'd with Scissars ’ . |
| 23 | Files which before the war were lucid and precise , with everything stated simply in model letters and reports , become in the fifties and sixties thin and skimped with occasional notes ‘ for the file ’ covering actions taken after lengthy phone calls in which the actual decisions were made . |
| 24 | Even their reports , which before the war would have been held together by close logic and the normal sense of what was being said , are now things of numbered paragraphs ( the British Library report cited earlier has sections with triple numbers , such as 9.6.1. and even the conclusions of chapters have introductions ) with no style or overall understanding at all . |
| 25 | In making it Curtis helped to unleash a force which before long would profoundly challenge the British claim to dominion in India . |
| 26 | This often contains the seeds of grass and other plants which before long sprout , like mustard and cress on a damp flannel . |
| 27 | These early , marine forms included the hitherto enigmatic Hallucigenia , as well as Microdictyon , which before its discovery in the Chengjiang fauna ( Fig. 1 ) was known only from dispersed phosphatic sclerites . |
| 28 | It was not until after the 1914 war and nearly five years with the French army — although domiciled in England for some thirty years he never at any time entertained the idea of becoming a naturalized British subject , considering it highly improper for a Frenchman to renounce his country — and following the failure of his London decorating business , which before the war had been successful , that Boulestin turned to cookery writing . |
| 29 | Moreover , the use by the courts of these common law devices of obstruction , breach of the peace and nuisance is difficult to legislate against as the essential purpose ( which before the 1960s had been more or less achieved with police co-operation ) is to permit ‘ reasonable ’ picketing , including the right to accost for a short period within which arguments can be advanced , without putting persons in fear or to immoderate inconvenience . |
| 30 | In 1925 , moreover , the royal commission on awards to inventors ordered that £30,000 be paid to Pollen for his contributions to the Dreyer system , which before the war had incorporated — albeit imperfectly — elements of the Argo clock without his knowledge or permission . |