Example sentences of "before i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I took him as a patient , I watched many of his fight films . |
| 2 | So how did Tony manage to gain the confidence of the dealers , ‘ It took at least two or three weeks before I took my camera out and that was probably one of the hardest things I did . |
| 3 | ‘ It was one of her customers , in the days before I made her my manager , ’ he said lightly . |
| 4 | After dinner there was little spare time before I made my way to Sunday School , held in St. Martin 's Boys ’ School . |
| 5 | It was not going to be long , I reflected , before I made my contribution to discussions in 24 Stranraer Gardens via a Ouija board . |
| 6 | But I hesitated only a second before I accepted his gift excitedly . |
| 7 | You have to understand that no one but my family had ever lived at Low Birk Hatt before I sold it . |
| 8 | ‘ — anyway they never saw me , but before I went I heard her say , in a slinky sort of voice . |
| 9 | … if I calculated stages before I ordered my horses , I should abandon the attempt , and remain quietly at home . |
| 10 | If he asks his friend " What did you hear before I asked you ? " his friend will reply with some impatience " I told you before , the counter at A clicked " . |
| 11 | before I coloured it in . |
| 12 | Yet his great blue jowls appeared sufficient fortification against the world ; while so immense was his dignity that it was some while before I realized he spent his nights in the arms of my recently widowed mother . |
| 13 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 14 | I had been happily chatting away for some time to my ‘ invisible ’ recorder before I realized I was not alone . |
| 15 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 16 | It was ten seconds or so before I realized I was supposed to be looking at the inside of the wooden door . |
| 17 | I hesitated for a long time before I began my experiment . |
| 18 | It was their own idea , started without help before I began my work as an adviser and I want to try and help them make it a success . |
| 19 | Dead before I knew it was not my anger killed her , dead before I told her how much I loved her . |
| 20 | I wanted to be sure I could establish myself , become ‘ somebody ’ , before I told him what I was doing . |
| 21 | I had it for about two weeks before I told him I 'd got it ! |
| 22 | ‘ I thought I 'd wait until I made a go of it before I told you . |
| 23 | Once before I told you something that Angela Thirkell said , and you sold me to Edna [ E. Box , the painter ] , who sold you to Olivia , who told someone else , who straightway wrote it in a letter to Angela herself . |
| 24 | To this he calmly replied , with more charity than I deserved : ‘ Well , you should have seen what I was like before I became one ! ’ |
| 25 | Or so I thought , in the good days , the wonderful days , before I felt it . |
| 26 | Usually it was late afternoon before I tossed myself into the near-coma from which Gwenellen had just woken me . |
| 27 | I thought I heard something before I heard him . |
| 28 | ‘ If I passed a group of people on the street , I could usually count three before I heard it — ‘ Eeeeee ! ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Three weeks went by before I saw him again and that was the day the coach left Sweetmary . |