Example sentences of "of [noun] before we " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemed a far more promising environment , and we quickly accepted the couple 's invitation to abandon our base in Makassar and move in with them in Bira , since it would clearly take many more weeks of negotiating before we could be sure of coming up with a prahu , and a crew , reliable enough to carry us eastwards . |
| 2 | After all , we have a good couple of hours before we have to go back . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It is clear we need to sell and bring in a fair amount of money before we can think of buying again . |
| 4 | ‘ It is clear that we need to sell and bring in a fair amount of money before we can think about buying again . ’ |
| 5 | We have to become acquainted with the manifestations of fear before we can break its grip . |
| 6 | It is as though Lawrence was acknowledging that it is hard for human beings to say what they feel and that we often have to search for the form of words before we can find the words themselves . |
| 7 | ‘ The band had only been together a couple of months before we started recording that album , so we did n't have time to think about it too much — we just went in and did it . |
| 8 | ‘ It will be interesting to see if the system has been improved in any way , but it will take a couple of months before we really see any indication of that , ’ said one insider . |
| 9 | Surely some time should be given next week so that we can debate this issue , especially when , today , in answer to Question 4 , the Minister of State , Home Office told the hon. Member for Liverpool , Mossley Hill ( Mr. Alton ) that it would be a couple of months before we had the report from the law courts in Europe . |
| 10 | A spokeswoman for the hospital said : ‘ It will be a couple of months before we can tell if the treatment has been successful . |
| 11 | This is an alcohol this is an ether now while we 've got the opportunity we 'll talk about the naming of ethers before we get onto this this last form of structural isomerism . |
| 12 | ‘ A spot of gambling before we leave ? ’ |
| 13 | But even saying that , if they doubled it to two hundred pounds , it 's a lot of years before we reach four thousand pounds . |
| 14 | And I 'm disappointed that councillor is talking about a matter of years before we get something done about this . |
| 15 | If not , he warned : ‘ It could be a couple of years before we even get into the courtroom itself and no-one can say how long the case will run . ’ |
| 16 | It could take a number of years before we get them all on A L O courses and in fact there 's no way w I assume there 's no way we can put them on A L O courses til they 've done a crime prevention course at Is that right David ? |
| 17 | All except ( 6 ) have an introductory adverbial clause or phrase providing a point of orientation before we launch into a main clause . |
| 18 | 6 League Games have been played as to date ( 22.06.93 ) , with 1 draw , 2 wins and 3 losses ( we have to give them some sort of chance before we give them a good thrashing ) . |
| 19 | Can I just ask a couple of questions before we finalize before lunch . |
| 20 | But lets just notice two or three things in this particular interview , the first thing that we see and its so obvious is that the way of salvation is so wondrously simple , it could n't be easier , you know there are so many people who think it is hard to get saved , who think it is hard to come to Christ and to become a Christian , well the problem is you see the devil has blinded their eyes , they 've blinded the eyes of men and women , so that they think that they ca n't do this , but what is actually happened , Paul tells us in , in , in Carinthians in the first er , in to Carinthians in chapter four and verse four , he says the god of this world has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ , who is the image of god , and there is this shroud , this covering , but the thing is god takes that away so that we can see and so its not difficult to become a Christian , it is not hard to get saved , sometimes as Christians we are guilty of making it difficult for people to become Christians , we put all sorts of rules in , we , we make them undergo various periods of er , of probation before we wer we 've were , were willing to call them Christians , remember the Philippine jailer he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was er in jail there with Silus the , the be , the tremendous earthquake and they were released all their vetoers was , were broken and the prisoners were all , could of escaped and the ja , the Philippine jailer he cries out a question that I 'm sure he does n't even know what he means when he calls it out , he 's not thinking of heaven , he 's not thinking of the future life , he 's not thinking of having his sins dealt with but he just cries out what must I do to be saved and the apostle Paul and he gets , opens the scrolls and he starts in genesis and he explains the plan of salvation and he tells him what he 's got to do and he explains all the requirements and then about three or four hours later the mans mind is completely blurred he does n't understand a word of it , its gone way beyond him |
| 21 | We put all sorts of rules in , we we make them undergo various periods of er , o of probation before we 're wor , we 've we 're , we 're willing to call them Christians . |
| 22 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |
| 23 | For a bit of fun before we went back to London we got a boat trip round the harbour . |
| 24 | Since over 50% of us seem to opt for a period of co-habitation before we take the marital plunge , these findings are pretty sobering stuff . |
| 25 | They threw us out of China before we got to Tibet . ’ |
| 26 | That is accomplished by remembering , applying and living by this truth : at work , whatever our standing , we are servants of Christ before we are servants of any earthly master . |
| 27 | Brussels churned out five volumes of legislation before we joined the European community . |
| 28 | We had to pick our way down and scale a different shoulder of cliff before we were able to lower ourselves to where Father lay . |
| 29 | But we are n't due to make another port of call before we reach home . ’ |
| 30 | And we did require and demand and obtain from the Treasury a great deal of information before we would allow , as it were , any decision to be made . |