Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | This immediately limited the number of towns that could be planned , for most English towns have developed from villages , and their sites had been partly built on for centuries before they developed into towns . |
| 2 | It can go on for years before families are forced to acknowledge the truth … |
| 3 | He went on , ‘ Matt lived here alone for years before I came on the scene . |
| 4 | The road was too rough for one thought to rest long in mind before it was cannoned out by another . |
| 5 | Diana 's three best pals are the women who shared her bachelor-girl pad in in Knightsbridge before she was married . |
| 6 | It would be nice , for instance , if some of the cast went in in costume before the curtain went up — to wish them well , hope they enjoy it , that sort of thing . |
| 7 | It is a good idea to jot the points down on paper before you dial the number . |
| 8 | The Italian team 's French driver Jean Alesi posed for photographers in the new model but was unable to demonstrate the lightweight 644-B 's abilities at the car 's unveiling as it had broken down on Tuesday before it could be taken on a test run . |
| 9 | Tomorrow will be a different matter though , trying to get down to Perugia before the hostel shuts . |
| 10 | If you want her , you can fight for her and win her fair and square , and no more sneaking in at doors before honest men are out of their beds . |
| 11 | Security was tighter here than it had been in the Union building , and Reynolds had to be signed in by Diane before he could be issued with a visitor 's pass . |
| 12 | The defective article might still be in the manufacturer 's possession three years after the date of manufacture , and he might sell it later , but no one would have the hardihood to suggest that the three years ' limitation had already cut off all right of action before he had sold it . |
| 13 | The break was clean and horizontal , and while the whole of the coming season may be over for Lawrence before it has even begun , as Brown said : ‘ If anyone can come back from such a horrific injury it is Syd . ’ |
| 14 | Establishing and sustaining relationships — ‘ We must have you over for dinner before we leave . ’ |
| 15 | Doohan eases off the throttle just enough to bring the Honda approximately into line before he keels her over once again . |
| 16 | I am trying to save the people , doing my best to cross over into Canada before the soldiers find us . |
| 17 | Yet a revolution in the way football is run in a number of these countries was already under way before the democratisation set in . |
| 18 | Not only was it the case that many projects were already under way before ERDF resources were committed , but also member states were free to add ERDF aid to the national aid for the project ( individual additionality ) or to add such aid to national regional expenditure as a whole ( global additionality ) . |
| 19 | Although in school activities Ernest was energetic and successful , twice he ran away from home before the Kansas City Star was joined by him as a cub reporter in 1917 . |
| 20 | It was too soon for the operation to be taken away from Cardiff before he found out just what was going on in this hellish office block . |
| 21 | Just in time before his Mum turned from the cooker , he jumped off the roof . |
| 22 | As the bus pulled into the depot , just in time before all the busmen went on strike , I looked around in surprise . |
| 23 | They saw him just in time before the icebreaker crushed … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I can see I shall have to tell you more about Brownies before you believe in what they can do and do do . |
| 25 | On the positive side , the changes inside the Soviet Union will help : with the unprecedented flowering of Jewish cultural freedom , Hebrew classes are now a possibility ; potential immigrants can now learn more about Israel before they come . |
| 26 | Burying conceals the seeds from other predators , for which they are an important resource in Central America , while the agouti 's peeling off of pericarp before burial may remove any invertebrate larvae therein , before they can get to the seed . |
| 27 | And , of course , when we had a shooting-party , it was more like midnight before we went to bed . |
| 28 | A try from Richard Eyres put the visitors further in front before Sheffield turned up the pace . |
| 29 | ACT is now a separate computer maintenance company that was split off from Apricot before it was bought by Mitsubishi , the Japanese conglomerate that produces everything from the four-wheel Shogun to equally rugged Nikon cameras . |
| 30 | Oh you might have to fit you might have to fix you might have to wait until we 've got time off over Christmas before we do it , anyway . |