Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year branch income was on target at seven point eight million pounds , a massive increase on the plateau of five to five and half million pounds we were on before Skip Lunch . |
| 2 | In that case we should be back in something like the unsatisfactory position we were in before the introduction of comprehensive schools , when the least successful children were relegated to schools that were openly admitted to be inferior ; and it is likely that the ‘ good ’ schools would , many of them , choose to free themselves from their Local Authorities . |
| 3 | But my observation told me that the moments of personal suffering were over before that ; the bird 's individuality had been reclaimed . |
| 4 | In November 1987 they were up before the court on badger digging charges — one got off due to inadequate evidence . |
| 5 | I just chucked everything in that I had , did it , in the box and we were out before seven . |
| 6 | So we were back before the firebox , exhausted and happy , and Laura had just shut down the kiln , when Edward came round into the yard again . |
| 7 | As he points out , the idea ( and a lot of the lines ) for ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ were around before Mister C. And The Shamen had long had their sights set on the charts . |
| 8 | The authority decided to wait until all the evidence was in before interviewing any officer involved in the incident . |
| 9 | Ideally , the objective must be to have the accommodation returned to the same condition it was in before the lease . |
| 10 | We will not pay the cost of any repair or replacement which improves your car beyond the condition it was in before the loss or damage occurred . |
| 11 | We will not pay the cost of any repair or replacement which improves your car beyond the condition it was in before the loss or damage occurred . |
| 12 | We will not pay the cost of any repair or replacement which improves your car beyond the condition it was in before the loss or damage occurred . |
| 13 | ‘ She was down before me , breakfasted and lookin' as though she was just off to complete a big business deal in the money centre of BA or wherever . |
| 14 | The above argument is predicated on Coetzee 's assumption that the disruptive potential of the new organizations had been contained and that the ‘ crisis of Conservatism ’ was over before 1914 . |
| 15 | I was off before the pistol . |
| 16 | I had not slept much and was up before dawn . |
| 17 | She was so excited to be returning that she was up before dawn and ready for the journey south long before the arrival of the taxi that was to take them to Berwick for the train to King 's Cross . |
| 18 | To the left , opposite the reception desk , in the parlour with the rubber plant and the lace half-curtains , where she sometimes had her breakfast ( if she was up before ten when Madame stopped serving it ) , she saw her grandfather , Sir Anthony Everard , erect against the window , with her young aunt his daughter beside him , Xanthe Everard , Miranda 's nursery playmate . |
| 19 | He set barns on fire , was up before the magistrates for theft and by the time he was thirteen he was stealing cars . |
| 20 | Rae was up before dawn all that week . |
| 21 | My joy of getting into Halton was short-lived , In the first term I was up before the Head , a delightful fellow called B , A , Smith who kindly explained in a most embarrassed way that in spite of appearing to have satisfactory results in other departments , my school results were as poor as he could recall in all his experience . |
| 22 | I was up before Geoff this morning see . |
| 23 | Rozanov was back before us . |
| 24 | Within a month he was back before the SFA , which increased his last fine to £2,000 and extended his ban for another season for violating the previous month 's punishment during the Scottish Cup semi-final against St Johnstone at Parkhead . |
| 25 | Aelis was out before dawn , in the frosty end of the starlight and the faint gilding of the still unrisen sun , making the rounds of her rabbit snares high on the hillside . |