Example sentences of "before [pron] [vb past] her " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The pupils all began looking round at each other and Mildred knew there was little time before someone recognized her . |
| 2 | ‘ It was one of her customers , in the days before I made her my manager , ’ he said lightly . |
| 3 | Dead before I knew it was not my anger killed her , dead before I told her how much I loved her . |
| 4 | I heard Daffodil 's voice before I saw her , so that when Filmer came past the door of the bar I was bending down with my head below the counter as if to be tidying things there . |
| 5 | ‘ She was doing it ( prostitution ) before I met her . |
| 6 | I was physically ill the day before I met her because I was so nervous ! |
| 7 | It 's entitled Fair Do's : Studies in the Perception of Social Justice — the kind of thing Lynn used to buy before I met her . |
| 8 | But even then , before I knew her at all , I sensed that normality was not really Karen 's thing . |
| 9 | She stumbled on in this manner for some time before I talked her into accepting a chair and a cuppa . |
| 10 | Before I put her on the plane for London I told her everything was over between us and I 've just reiterated that . |
| 11 | I snatched up my doll , Topsey , and laid her in the cart and ran after Mum who was half way down the street before I caught her up . |
| 12 | Luckily Pat had organised insurance before she left her home in Brighton — unlike 30,000 skiers who will head for the snow this season without adequate cover . |
| 13 | Miss Mates had already sped to do his bidding , giving Sally-Anne one last sympathetic squeeze of the hand before she left her . |
| 14 | Fran murmured her thanks as the woman collected the dog and went on her way , but it was a few minutes before she followed her . |
| 15 | She 'd have to be patient until lunchtime , then soften up Penry Vaughan with a snack before she made her request . |
| 16 | I put , Marie Ann gave her daughter a Valium before she took her driving test . |
| 17 | She completed victory by taking the tiebreak 7-5 but not before she lost her serve to 5-5 and then saved a set point at 5-6 . |
| 18 | But before you left her , you wrote her some letters perhaps . |
| 19 | You told me you had a bit of a chat with Angy before you asked her about the ring . ’ |
| 20 | Perhaps she was roughly treated before you owned her . |
| 21 | " If you wore iron boots on your feet , you would wear out twelve pairs of them before you found her ! |
| 22 | Several years before we saw her , she had gone with a friend to visit the war graves in Flanders . |
| 23 | Before we had her she did a lot of show jumping and has bred a foal . |
| 24 | Grateful for the Burford man 's help , Seb told him of finding Anna in the Wychwood Forest , adding , ‘ It 's lucky she did n't die before we found her . |
| 25 | Be in bed before they saw her . |
| 26 | They were almost right on top of her before they saw her . |
| 27 | The police probably knew everything ; it was only a matter of time now before they challenged her about that sample of nail polish . |
| 28 | ‘ Joanna asked the farmer to ring me before they took her away in the ambulance . |
| 29 | Had Kit and Astrid stayed here too , before they left her behind ? |
| 30 | Selissa Vance 's frantic parents searched for nearly an hour before they found her , virtually unhurt , under a nearby tree . |