Example sentences of "before [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Herbie did n't try and jump in the car before I could lift him and trying to get Audrey in with her stiff leg . |
| 2 | Our Gofer ( a young woman ) grabbed his hand before I could say anything and said , ‘ Great , show me will you ? ’ and dashed off with him in tow , coats flying . |
| 3 | The bell rang before she could open it and Jenna stood just inside the sitting-room in her long housecoat , wondering who on earth it could be ; the post had arrived over an hour ago and she did n't know enough people to be expecting visitors . |
| 4 | ‘ I think , Miss Everett , ’ he cut in before she could tell him that Travis had only called to apologise when he 'd stopped by for his car , ‘ that it might be in your interests not to see him again . ’ |
| 5 | He had her foot in his hand before she could stop him and his indrawn breath made her aware that it looked as bad as it felt . |
| 6 | Ruth nodded and before she could ask him if he was too he clasped her hands and hauled her from the water into his arms . |
| 7 | The status consciousness argument really needs more convincing evidence than this experiment before we can take it as proven . |
| 8 | It was the Deutsche Bank which bought the great and corrupt Flick empire from the family owners before they could restructure it and sell it off in sections : it was Deutsche as well which , within the space of a few years , succeeded in transforming Daimler-Benz into a huge diversified Konzerne , making it the largest in the country , by successively buying the motor company MTU , the aeronautics firm Dornier , the electronics firm AEG and merging them with Messerschmitt Blohm to give birth to an industrial empire of 400,000 employees and £27 billion turnover . |
| 9 | She said , ‘ Mr Evans , I 've something to tell you , something important , ’ and then rushed straight into it before he could stop her and say , ‘ Clear out while I 'm eating . ’ |
| 10 | But then he se he seemed then as if he 'd think twice before he 'd do anything when he used to come in you know I er I said to him I said look we used to call him in them days you know , now what did you that for ? |
| 11 | The Prince became fascinated and vanished from sight into the mountain bikes , and it was twenty-four minutes before anyone could extract him and move him on . |