Example sentences of "[det] was before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I left the Lock and I was on nights the sirens went one night and this was before they stopped going down the shelter we went down the air raid shelter that is , now , is the cellar to the club at Bloxwich Lock 's club ! |
| 2 | This was before they became a popular thing you know . |
| 3 | All this was before he became a jazz legend , writing such hits as ‘ Flat Foot Floogie ’ and appearing in films like Hellzapoppin . |
| 4 | This was before I was playing with Chet and everything , so that 's all it really needed , and I 've just tried to keep up since then . |
| 5 | And this was before I 'd even hit a ball ! |
| 6 | This was before I did my Leaving . |
| 7 | This was before I was associated with him , was his agent . |
| 8 | That was before they found the patches of damp on their own kitchen and bathroom ceilings , which , when touched with a finger , smelled unmistakably of cat-piss . |
| 9 | That was before they met Glenda . |
| 10 | Yes , they had been in love once , that was before they had children . |
| 11 | Terribly wrong , and that was before they had even left England ! |
| 12 | Turning to the Irish , they were reckoning on five last week and that was before they had beaten the English . |
| 13 | That was before we could afford a ‘ better house ’ , before Mum got a job , before we moved to Exeter . |
| 14 | That was before we installed the eight thousand gallon water storage tank , which Health and Safety thought could drown a child . |
| 15 | ‘ That was before we found her handbag , ’ said Tim . |
| 16 | and that was before we bought the petrol this morning . |
| 17 | That was before we found . |
| 18 | B : That was before I was cognisant of the fact that my Wakefield caucus would only have one in over my dead body . |
| 19 | ‘ That was before I met Mother Clare , and anyway I do n't know where I am going . ’ |
| 20 | I had wondered once whether that was the reason my father had married her , but that was before I had learned that men are not much given to acts of altruism , and certainly not in sexual matters . |
| 21 | That was before I knew you . |
| 22 | ‘ Madame Gebrec , I know I said I would help you , but that was before I understood what you wanted of me . |
| 23 | ‘ I know I did , but that was before I knew the labels were typed on Dick Tavett 's typewriter and that the bags matched those in the Post 's stationery stockroom . ’ |
| 24 | That was before I came here , of course . ’ |
| 25 | I sold it once when I was skint for fifty quid , that was before I was married . |
| 26 | That was before I got married , of course . ’ |
| 27 | That was before I was working , before I was a trade union member . |
| 28 | But that was before I met you . ’ |
| 29 | I know , that was before I 'd started those . |
| 30 | My parents were discussing some incident in the past and , when I joined in the conversation to ask some question , they told me , as they often had on similar occasions , ‘ Of course , that was before you were born . ’ |