Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [adv] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dent 's comment at the time when that Act was still before Parliament as a bill has a curious irony to it , which will become all the more apparent from the discussion which ensues later : |
| 2 | In moral America , it looked as if the Clinton campaign was over before it had begun . |
| 3 | The question was out before she could bite it back . |
| 4 | The frightened question was out before she could stop it . |
| 5 | It won' be long before it finishes it 's only |
| 6 | He might have lied about it if he 'd been able to think more quickly , but the truth was out before he knew it . |
| 7 | The remark was out before she 'd considered the wisdom of it . |
| 8 | But my father was here before I came . |
| 9 | The retort was out before she could prevent it . |
| 10 | ‘ Our league campaign this season was over before it began and I could offer a lot of excuses but wo n't . |
| 11 | And , unless you are that raving genius we have met before , you would do well to analyse exactly what it is your detective novel is about before you embark on detailed plotting , let alone the actual writing . |
| 12 | With sequencers that 's achievable , but then much of the performance is over before they touch the stage . |
| 13 | and imagining what her life was like before she married him . |
| 14 | For these traders , the show was over before it began . |
| 15 | The walls of our imprisonment were there before we appeared on the scene , but they are ever rebuilt by ourselves . |
| 16 | Borrowers on a budget plan have to wait till the year is up before they can reap the benefits . |
| 17 | The conversation was over before it had started . |
| 18 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |
| 19 | The last time Ballater had been in the cottage was just before Miss Marshall had been forced out of it by her rapacious relatives , backed up by the insensitive local general practitioner who agreed she could n't cope . |
| 20 | The one-trial conditioning procedure achieves this since acquisition is over before the shock has a chance to lose effectiveness . |
| 21 | The party was over before it began . |