Example sentences of "was [art] [noun sg] before [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It wa it was the night before they went on holiday . |
| 2 | It was the night before she left for her trip . |
| 3 | It was the day before we expected to see Treasure Island . |
| 4 | This was the day before they voted in favour of formally calling for the return of Charles II to the throne of England . |
| 5 | This was the day before I opened the door to the three men . |
| 6 | That was the day before I started writing Jane Eyre . ’ |
| 7 | No they , they did n't because the that 's right because it was cancelled last year it was the year before she did . |
| 8 | I had to learn and to make many new things , and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread . |
| 9 | It was a while before they returned . |
| 10 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 11 | Wha what did she think by er she was a member before she got , before she married then ? |
| 12 | ‘ I knew it was a mistake before we got to Fez . |
| 13 | There was a pause before he added , ‘ I 'm sorry about the misunderstanding . ’ |
| 14 | There was a pause before he ended , ‘ Your mother 's going to be lonely , you know that , do n't you , Joe ? ’ |
| 15 | There was a pause before she answered . |
| 16 | Swayze , 38 , star of Dirty Dancing and Ghost , was a carpenter before he turned to films and still owns a building firm . |
| 17 | Wayne was so taken aback by this that it was a moment before he realised something else ; the hand that had touched the box had come away wet . |
| 18 | The operator , surly in her attitude , did n't inform Duncan that they had answered , and it was a moment before he realized that there was someone on the line . |
| 19 | It was a moment before he answered , and Burun saw that he had an arrow embedded in the edge of his shield . |
| 20 | It was a moment before he answered , ‘ Well , in a way that 's understandable ; she 's his daughter . ’ |
| 21 | The smile slipped from Millie 's face and it was a moment before she responded : ‘ Yes , yes I 've been lucky . ’ |
| 22 | There was a silence before he asked , ‘ How much time do you want ? ’ |
| 23 | There was a silence before he answered . |
| 24 | It was a month before he used any of the money from the locked drawer in his mother 's room . |
| 25 | There was a week before I went . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But she was no virgin before it happened , if that 's of any interest to you . ’ |
| 29 | I was an electrician before I went into acting — I did all the wiring in my house . |
| 30 | ‘ Try the kitchen , ’ Claudia said , seeing from the clock on her bedside table that there was an hour before she needed to get up . |