Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I can see I shall have to tell you more about Brownies before you believe in what they can do and do do . |
| 6 | Some form of processing ( amplifiers ) will be used in a long-distance system to ‘ boost ’ the signal level every so often to make up for losses before it is sent on its way again . |
| 7 | Find out about computers before you buy one by reading everything up-to-date that you can get your hands on . |
| 8 | Adopt a system that alerts to you the fact that you are running out of forms before you actually do so ; put a note in the drawer ten forms from the bottom for this purpose . |
| 9 | ‘ In fact , I did n't know him at all and he 'd managed to slip in and out of affairs before I even tumbled to the fact that he was playing around . |
| 10 | Unless their captor had a secret supply of them , Peter reckoned he would be out of smokes before they moved . |
| 11 | And it was around for centuries before people managed to find a cure for it . |
| 12 | Such claims involve a large pinch of special pleading , especially by the property-casualty firms which are lobbying hard for concessions before their rules are released in June . |
| 13 | These are the human remains that appear in the picture of the priests , from bodies that had already been torn apart by dogs before they were found in the sand . |