Example sentences of "before [pron] [verb] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh no , it was just because I went to talk to my manager about it before I went and I went through my diary with him and everything . |
| 2 | er , we 'll get it all sorted , you know what you like , you sit there and you think oh I want it , to get it all sorted before I go and move , it 'll just have to be in a tip for a while . |
| 3 | and I thought before I go and send it back , because I do n't know of anybody |
| 4 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 5 | I had to learn and to make many new things , and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread . |
| 6 | I packed and repacked many times ( before I left and after I got there ) . |
| 7 | Mm cos I found I 'd try , well the works had er , erm table and I , I remember the last time I played before I left and I said come on , I 'll |
| 8 | So you have had before I try and do n't , I wo n't go off with your homework hone honestly I wo n't . |
| 9 | Since just before I moved and it triggered it off . |
| 10 | You can actually do really big stretches , although I 'm careful to warm up before I play and cool down slowly again afterwards , because I get tendonitis and I have to keep myself in shape . |
| 11 | She will go free before I do and so long as she is captive will I be . |
| 12 | But now , before I finish and let you commence something more enjoyable , I will do my best to answer any questions you may have . ’ |
| 13 | The other thing is my contribution to the new album is limited , Jake had most of the songs finished before I arrived and all I did was go in and lay down the bass tracks . |
| 14 | The team , including John Hall from Scottish Nuclear , had been there for a year before I arrived and had done much in identifying the work required . |
| 15 | I had some really good erm this too , listen to this , the woods are lovely dark and deep but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep . |
| 16 | The woods are lovely dark and deep but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep by Robert Frost , Robert Frost . |
| 17 | And I went two or three steps down the stairs before I stopped and looked back . |
| 18 | I must be honest , having seen the children leap off that bridge , it 's not going to be long before somebody falls and hurts themselves . |
| 19 | She was half way up Stanley Street before she recovered and her heart stopped sinking in her breast . |
| 20 | Mrs Pearson , the nice old lady who sold Belle Vue Cottage to me , set the controls a few days before she left and said the milkman understood how it worked and he would help me if I had need of it . |
| 21 | It was late afternoon before she stirred and stretched . |
| 22 | All humbug is punished sooner or later ; but Nemesis is notoriously slow , and it was a quarter of a century before she struck and the United Kingdom found itself , to the malicious glee of her neighbours , the first signatory state to the Convention to be found guilty of a breach of its terms , in Ulster in 1971 . |
| 23 | He seemed to have escaped before she had and so she made her way out of the court alone , trying to decide whether to lunch in the tea room upstairs or to go out to a restaurant . |
| 24 | Summer changed to autumn before she surfaced and lay palely on her bed , remembering . |
| 25 | I had time to eat my shepherd 's pie and tell my table about meeting Old Red before she appeared and apologized to us all for being late . |
| 26 | There was only a nurse to help untie and unbutton the morning 's fastenings before she undressed and climbed into a bed in the long , crowded dormitory . |
| 27 | She felt her mother 's presence before she turned and faced her , her little grubby hands clenching and unclenching with nerves . |
| 28 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 29 | He spoke rapidly to the girl , who bobbed her head again before she turned and left the room . |
| 30 | The last thing she saw , before she turned and flew up the stairs , was the embarrassment on Bob Calder 's face — and the shock on the face of Sofia Valenti , who stood huddled in a shadowed corner . |