Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] before i " in BNC.
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| 1 | of perhaps my characteristics cos I tend to go in to work at eight o'clock just before I write any more in and I do have to clear everything before I even start the day . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm told this war could be all over before I even get a shot at them . ’ |
| 3 | just shortly before I departed , I attended a small inaugural meeting on the quayside in Dublin . |
| 4 | I should have thought more deeply before I agreed , but that 's not how fools charge in . |
| 5 | I want to wear each one of them once more before I die . ’ |
| 6 | I wanted to see Mrs O'Dare once more before I go . ’ |
| 7 | You 're hardly ever up before I go to work . |
| 8 | Alright , I 'll phone you a bit later on before I leave , okay . |
| 9 | Oh , I confess to feeling a pang when I first saw David again — I would n't be human if I had n't — but , as I said before , it was over between us a very long time ago , probably even before I fell for Paul if the truth be known . ’ |
| 10 | Like I say , she 's sleeping well now , and she 's often up before I even wake up . |
| 11 | Erm well perhaps before I answer that question Mr Chairman , I could just briefly skim across the programme and bring you up to date as to where we are and then we 'll go directly on to that point . |
| 12 | I 'd rather have Captain Smollett sail us half-way home before I moved , but I know the rest of the men wo n't wait that long . |
| 13 | Then just before I blacked out one of them said , ‘ This is your one and only warning ’ , or something like that . ’ |
| 14 | Then just before I left I heard that Jennifer 's MS had been diagnosed . |
| 15 | They lived there just before I was born . |
| 16 | Yeah you know what I 've done , it 's that er thing there well before I had it I used to put them on floor at side of ashtray , and now I leave it on settee and you know when I put me legs up , you know when you move over and watching telly ? |
| 17 | I ca n't I have n't been bloody , yeah you have now , I 've still got ta get to there yet before I can bloody buy anything |
| 18 | To make sure that he has n't just come home I telephoned twice this afternoon , and again just before I left to come here . |
| 19 | ‘ If you take anything else off before I 've got my suitcase out of this room , I 'll ring the police ! ’ she announced with an icy calm she was far from feeling . |
| 20 | It was not very long before I came to see it as simply one fad among others . |
| 21 | ‘ It means you could n't have arrived in Seal Haven all that long before I found you . |
| 22 | However , I am getting the business matters straightened out and I hope it wo n't be too long before I shall have more time to spend with you . ’ |