Example sentences of "before [pers pn] left the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so precise with his camera positions at outside rehearsal that , literally , before I left the church hall , or whatever we were using , to come into the studio I would measure off , with string and a compass , co-ordinates from the front edge of the marked-out set to each of his floor indicated camera positions . |
| 2 | But er when just before I left the polishing which was in nineteen thirty eight , er they were bringing in a lot of cellu it 's all th a lot of all this modern stuff is what they call cellulose , but I could n't tell you how it 's done , it 's done with a spray . |
| 3 | ‘ I think , ’ answered Karen , ‘ that someone put something radioactive into my bag last night before I left the factory . |
| 4 | ‘ You took the message before I left the building ? ’ |
| 5 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 6 | ‘ I had some before I left the hotel . |
| 7 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 8 | I had a feeling that this jam session on the back of a truck with Bunny was going to end in tears even before I left the house . |
| 9 | ‘ At lunchtime he came home and we had a brief discussion before I left the house , ’ said Mrs Lighten . |
| 10 | ‘ I spoke to the doctor before I left the hospital . |
| 11 | Before I left the fortress , in the late afternoon I climbed once more up to the guardian 's hut to say goodbye . |
| 12 | I told Cowslip we were going before I left the burrow . " |
| 13 | The last thing I heard you say before I left the receiver to its own devices was something like ‘ Some of us here have been reading your books … ’ |
| 14 | Peggy heard the laughter coming from next door before she left the woodland , and it further burst on her as she opened the kitchen door . |
| 15 | Before she left the party , she must look for the witch 's hat . |
| 16 | She had written to Felicity before she left the house , and posted the letter on her way ; and already she was feeling less pessimistic concerning the arrival of the third Musketeer . |
| 17 | Carrie got up and kissed her father before she left the ward , followed by her husband who was talking to Nellie . |
| 18 | But before she left the room , she turned back . |
| 19 | Kate gave him a suspicious look , but he seemed to have recovered from the rage she 'd been fairly sure he 'd been trying to keep under control before she left the room . |
| 20 | At the end of the afternoon , before we left the wood , and with a solemnity and sincerity , a complete dedication of herself that I can not describe to you because such unconditional promising is another extinct mystery … she said , ‘ Whatever happens I shall never marry anyone but you . ’ ’ |
| 21 | I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall . |
| 22 | But I could not stop Cathy whispering something in Linton 's ear , before we left the room . |
| 23 | I have known Trevor for many years and he is a mass of seething hate before breakfast most days , so I could smell the revenge in him even above ‘ Jock ’ McDougall 's armpits before we left the changing room this afternoon . |
| 24 | You see , I refused to go through with the wedding unless he promised to hand this over before we left the reception . ’ |
| 25 | Before we left the island for good though we had one last place to go . |
| 26 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 27 | Corton Beach were tipped in the national newspapers just before they left the OTC to start on the London Stock Exchange 's third market . |
| 28 | Before they left the camp he had seen the hides of the bull and its calf scraped clean of all life , suspended like limp black rags in the drying tent ; their white , eyeless skulls were hanging close by , and he felt a sense of desolation suddenly at the thought that he was responsible . |
| 29 | It 's to symbolise the sacrificed lamb roasted by the Jews the night before they left the bondage of Egypt . |
| 30 | She had admonished him before they left the hotel to drink no more than one glass , and his brother , Chuck , who was sipping his own wine confidently without the restraint of any such embargo , looked down and laughed good-naturedly at his indecision . |