Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years later to Somerset where I learnt that the great advantage of being an in-house solicitor is that you can help your clients , the social workers , planners , and teachers to get their procedures and attitudes right before cases come to court or committee . |
| 2 | Earlier in his racing career , the under-funded Hill spent most of his formative years riding motor bikes long before his mother Bette decided she had had enough of the dangers of two-wheel road racing . |
| 3 | We had ages together before I was taken off to the ward . |
| 4 | He clenched his teeth together before he lost control and cried out . |
| 5 | Before it met Eve and became a star , the apple was a humble fruit , a gift from the holy Tree of Life , which accumulated meaning in many cultures long before the Garden of Eden myth took shape . |
| 6 | He was one of the men who knew that the Surveyor of the Queen 's Pictures , Sir Anthony Blunt , had been recruited by the Russians long before he confessed in 1964 . |
| 7 | Better get my pyjamas on before they get , before daddy gets |
| 8 | It had been four months altogether before he returned to the Works , by which time Andrew Jones had been installed in the showrooms as assistant salesman . |
| 9 | It is better to learn that the candidate can not put a few words together before he/she joins the company rather than after he/she is employed . |
| 10 | It is a matter of months only before a learned historian unearths evidence which proves that the first sole normande was simply a mixture of fish boiled in a bucket of seawater on board the ship which took William of Normandy to Hastings . |
| 11 | He saw knowledge and pain in her eyes long before he 'd finished , but he to ! d her the rest anyway . |
| 12 | Children usually exhibit symptoms or signals long before they run away : they may lie , steal , truant , experiment with drugs or alcohol , create conflict , throw tantrums , be angry or depressed ; finally they run away . |
| 13 | Backs of less experience than McCracken and Whitson would have been run off their legs long before this pair showed signs of flagging . ’ |
| 14 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 15 | Furthermore , Ryberg et al showed that continuous infusion of L-G-17 through osmotic minipumps gave somewhat lower plasma gastrin concentrations just before the pumps were changed . |
| 16 | The Prosecution claim the two men were racing their cars just before the accident happened . |
| 17 | In his forties it grew worse and he decided to see a specialist When Alan mentioned that he had taken a lot of antibiotics just before the urticaria began , the specialist suggested that he try a diet with no sugar and very little starch . |
| 18 | In the centuries just before and just after the Conquest , handwriting comprised a mixture of styles and letter shapes , depending on the language used ( Latin , Anglo-Saxon , Norman French ) and the importance of the book or document being written . |
| 19 | R said that he did not really know F beforehand but had seen him and his brothers once before when someone had told him who F was . |
| 20 | Bissett had once met the gaunt technician from A45 who had apparently received through a faulty glove a particle of plutonium the size of a pinhead and whose body had been cremated six months later before there could be an inquest . |
| 21 | Perhaps the clearest example of Marxism being embraced as a substitute for a rejected Catholicism is offered by César Vallejo , whose poetry is constructed around biblical images both before and after his conversion to Communism and whose proletarian heroes ‘ appear as new Christs ’ urging redemption through collective love ( Vallejo : 1970 , p. 69 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ She wo n't be alone , ’ Jenna said quickly , rushing the words out before good sense got the better of her . |
| 23 | He 'd had doubts even before Aubrey had spoken out but , not wishing to acknowledge them , he 'd allowed his heart to overrule his head . |
| 24 | A system like this could be very efficient , since it could identify words even before they have been completely spoken . |
| 25 | Marslen-Wilson and Tyler adopt the second view , proposing that : ‘ the system … does not allow … contextual factors to pre-select some class of likely words even before any of the relevant sensory information has been received . ’ |
| 26 | According to Mason , ‘ The foundation was set up six months ago before the Canaletto 's sale was made public . |
| 27 | Mark Christie , 30 , got divorced 18 months ago before the recession forced his flourishing management consultancy business into sudden bankruptcy . |
| 28 | These titles date from centuries ago before many of the larger cities became self-governing states . |
| 29 | He caught her by the waist , in a half rugby tackle , lifted her up , spun her around and in one fell swoop had hoisted her on to his shoulders even before she realised what was happening . |
| 30 | That discord between indigenous and Western cultures would prove unremitting was suggested by the arguments of domestic political protagonists even before Japan was forced to reopen contacts with the West in the 1850s . |