Example sentences of "two [noun pl] before [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first cigarette of the day he smoked while he waited , extinguishing it two minutes before she was shown in and he had to tell her that her cervical smear had shown pre-cancerous signs . |
| 2 | My car is clamped two hours before we are to leave for Holyhead , though lifted within the hour , after much persuasion and a torrid sobbing session at the clamping office . |
| 3 | Many of the cards were dated two months before they were received . |
| 4 | Record sales in foreign territories can take up to two years before they are paid . |
| 5 | In 1972 , two years before it was enacted , 90 people in Michigan were convicted of unlawful carnal knowledge , as the offence of rape was termed under the statute then in force . |
| 6 | They can be made at least two days before they are needed . |
| 7 | Clare Evans , 18 , of Barry , South Wales , told the jury that Mr Browning took a splinter out of her hand with a butterfly knife on 16 June last year , two days before he is alleged to have killed Mrs Wilks . |
| 8 | It was actually two days before he was allowed to bring Jean home . |
| 9 | It 's believed the deer had been struggling in the snare for more than two days before it was found . |
| 10 | Two days before she was killed , she phoned me out of the blue . |