Example sentences of "before [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I see the Giotto frescoes at Padua I do not trouble to recognise which scene in the life of Christ I have before me , but I perceive instantly the sentiment which radiates from it and which is instinct in the composition in every line and color . |
| 2 | Wolfe puts his argument as follows : ‘ What I saw before me was the critic-in-chief of the New York Times saying : In looking at a painting today , ‘ to lack a persuasive theory is to lack something crucial ’ . |
| 3 | I am thinking about my spectacles lying on the desk before me as I write . |
| 4 | For the husks , before me , move , |
| 5 | ‘ I keep the subject constantly before me , and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into the full and clear light . ’ |
| 6 | Fiona 's face seemed very real as I closed my eyes and scenes of the Highlands passed before me . |
| 7 | The scene before me reminded me of the very similar scenes in the Highland crofts , the only difference being the now almost overpowering smell of onions . |
| 8 | I think we both recognised early on — perhaps he before me — the importance of good human relations and our policies have , I believe , been beneficial to both our businesses . |
| 9 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
| 10 | That is the scene before me now , except that the moon , riding low in its arc and viewed through the Earth 's dusty atmosphere , is spuriously tinged with gold . |
| 11 | Alas , like my father before me , my cholesterol is high . |
| 12 | My father hunted them before me and his father before him . |
| 13 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 14 | I must put my Saviour always before me as my example , friend and guide . |
| 15 | Then I realized he must have known many bisexuals before me , and many homosexuals too . |
| 16 | I have Mrs Ross 's papers before me , including a letter from her daughter saying she had left you and her children , had found another man , and was going abroad . |
| 17 | She seemed annoyed about this : ‘ But he went on his rounds earlier than he should have done , see , and so he found her before me . |
| 18 | If we can not guess Jacob 's motives , the storyteller makes them plain : ‘ I may appease him with the present that goes before me , and afterwards I shall see his face ; perhaps he will accept me . ’ |
| 19 | Let my lord pass on before his servant , and I will lead on slowly , according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children , until I come to my lord in Seir . ’ |
| 20 | You shall have no other gods before me ’ ( Exod. |
| 21 | The scene lay before me like the field of a medieval tourney : banners and bunting and ladies in jewel-bright colours . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've always done ox-roasting — my father and grandfather before me — anybody can tell you . ’ |
| 23 | I must have studied her with attention for I find that I can at this moment , however reluctantly , see her face before me as distinctly as though I was still sitting in that coffee bar with a quarter of an inch of the brown dregs left in my cup . |
| 24 | Thou hast been ‘ the cloud ’ before me from the day that I left the flesh-pots of Egypt , and was led through the way of the wilderness — the cloud that hast been guiding me to a land flowing with milk and honey — the milk of innocence , the honey of friendship ! |
| 25 | But this one , standing before me in her underwear , was immediately possessable , if possession means the same thing as physical penetration , or if possession is something you measure by its financial cost , and if possession is acknowledged to be temporary , a leasehold , an object you lose or abandon . |
| 26 | I returned to the tractor-path and in a few moments saw Holford House standing before me on a rise . |
| 27 | But it is hard to resist this plan put before me and indeed it ought to be tried since I have no other resource . |
| 28 | Many before me , I thought , had been shot by arrows in ancient woodland and faced their mortality in places that had looked like this before man started killing man . |
| 29 | There was a long queue ; before me an Asian couple stood with a trolley piled ludicrously with shabby luggage . |
| 30 | ‘ I went to the hospitality lounge for a cup of tea at about seven , and found Masha there before me . ’ |