Example sentences of "it [adj] [noun] before [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He liked to finish it each morning before he fetched the new day 's papers . |
| 2 | They had heard it some time before they reached it , the rumble of thunder growing louder as they approached , to become almost deafening at the point where a cloud of spray hovered overhead , the droplets becoming tiny rainbows as they caught the sun . |
| 3 | And er a and then they 'd go , they 'd , they 'd , if the mother was strong healthy and everything was going alright they 'd probably leave it another month before they went . |
| 4 | She actually I have to be I 've been to her house and she lives in the middle of nowhere I wo n't tell you where , she lives in the middle of nowhere in fact I drove past it three times before we found it . |
| 5 | ‘ Despite the appalling business of dropping GMTV in it three weeks before they went on the air , it was far better to make a clean break . |
| 6 | Æthelred 's confirmation of the will of Æthelric of Bocking , which is from no later than 999 , says that there was a plan to receive Swegen in Essex when he first came there with a fleet , and that Æthelred was told of Æthelric 's involvement in it many years before he died . |
| 7 | Did n't you give it any thought before you took up Ms Penumbra 's offer ? ’ |
| 8 | And he went to the bank and he got him three thousand pound ready and he got this beautiful car , he had n't it eighteen months before he wrapped it round a tree . |