Example sentences of "[art] time before " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happened that I called at Beatrice 's house the last time Aunt Nessy visited there — the time before she was banished . |
| 2 | If we said , like , if we , every second month say or every third month , then we , we knew we were going to have a speaker , we could the time before we could then do the business more thoroughly and carefully so that the month of the speaker we could just go through it very quickly . |
| 3 | Ruth found herself in his arms , her face against his broad chest — as if she were a little girl again , in the time before she 'd known he was crazy . |
| 4 | ‘ To begin with , where was Egan all the time before he was killed ? |
| 5 | Yeah well what happens if you just get in at the end of your or a at the time before they change the band , the colours ? |
| 6 | BRAKES should be checked every time before you ride . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd make sure he saw me every time before he went out the door . |
| 8 | Many situations where the glider is very low and flying slowly are insoluble quite a time before the accident actually happens . |
| 9 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
| 10 | Just as Maggie could not remember a time before there was Fenna , and a time before there was the big house and the three women living in it , so she could not remember a time when there was not the constant tug of tension between her grandmother and her mother . |
| 11 | Just as Maggie could not remember a time before there was Fenna , and a time before there was the big house and the three women living in it , so she could not remember a time when there was not the constant tug of tension between her grandmother and her mother . |
| 12 | It was a time before I began to understand her a little better and realise that a lot of this was actually a sort of ‘ attention-getting ’ — a bit of theatre just to see how people would react — to manipulate situations a little . |
| 13 | The son of a working-class family , Doisneau developed an early interest in art and was apprenticed as an engraver for a time before he ‘ escaped ’ to work for the sculptor and photographer , Andre Vigneau . |
| 14 | Like Krakatoa , Mt Pelee had been active for quite a time before disaster struck . |
| 15 | but I 'm afraid it may be quite a time before there 's room for you , although I 'd love to have you . ’ |
| 16 | She did so , it was a time before statues were used for devotion . |
| 17 | Although that session had not given any indication of why her water phobia had begun , at least it had shown her that there was a time before it existed . |
| 18 | The innocent words suddenly filled me with horror : there had been a time before I was born , a time when I had not existed , a time when I lacked individual consciousness — this last being the most horrifying notion . |
| 19 | However , he did know that he nearly died at the time of his peritonitis operation , and so it was easy to convince him that it would take quite a time before he was really strong again . |
| 20 | In the latter case , the higher-level program is translated as a whole into a lower-level program as a whole , and that process is carried out at a time before and separate from the time when the ( compiled ) program runs . |
| 21 | The situation in this respect is better for those at the younger end of the group than at the other , but a man or woman who was 40 in 1978 was only 10 in 1948 ; an impressionable age and a time before there was much relaxation in sexual codes . |
| 22 | This courtesy , tenderly performed , seemed right out of place to me , but it went down okay with Mrs Davis , who peered up at Fielding for quite a time before she said , |
| 23 | Unless you are enormously determined , it is far better to make small changes and build upon them , tackling one area at a time before you go on to the next rather than trying to lose weight , give up smoking , avoid alcohol and set yourself a punishing exercise regime all at once . |
| 24 | Ignoring the complex racial and national make-up of Americans , the attempt was to offer Elizabethan England as a time before Americans had ‘ left ’ their home culture . |
| 25 | An offeror could strike at a time before the benefits have come through and shareholder loyalty is at its weakest . |
| 26 | But housing committee chairman , Bill Dixon , said the criticism related to a time before Labour was in office . |