Example sentences of "time before [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got us off and the bus disappeared , but there was still a reason why we could not board — they never let on what it was — — and we stood on the tarmac for a long time before being herded to the back entrance . |
| 2 | They 'll often put up with dripping taps and wobbly shelves for quite some time before being motivated to fix them . |
| 3 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 4 | Also , the fresh tap water should be allowed to stand for some time before being offered to the cat , to allow the chemicals to dissipate . |
| 5 | However he remained with the Wellington unit only for a short time before being posted to Control Office duties at Luqa . |
| 6 | A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected . |
| 7 | If the material is not topical and is delayed for some time before being sent out the date should be changed . |
| 8 | Caducius had been found by Alexander McKenn and Maurice Harknett in the 1960s and dived on for a period of time before being forgotten . |
| 9 | I have had complaints from several enquirers who , not knowing our telephone extensions , have had to wait an inordinate length of time before being connected to the operator . |
| 10 | The institute has played a significant role in Kuwait 's mariculture development , as three of our graduates , Dr Sulaiman Al Matter , Dr Abdul Aziz Al Ameeri and Dr Khaled El Allah , now work at KISR plus Dr Albert Tacon who worked at KISR for a short time before being forced to flee Saddam Hussein . |