Example sentences of "before i [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ — anyway they never saw me , but before I went I heard her say , in a slinky sort of voice . |
| 2 | I do n't remember that name here before I know I know I know some of the faces alright . |
| 3 | I just sit there looking completely lost waiting to see this pub go by before I know I can get off the bus . |
| 4 | ‘ Before I die I must confess what I 've done wrong . |
| 5 | ‘ I pray that before I die I will know . |
| 6 | I had been happily chatting away for some time to my ‘ invisible ’ recorder before I realized I was not alone . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was ten seconds or so before I realized I was supposed to be looking at the inside of the wooden door . |
| 9 | " Before I go I want to thank you . " |
| 10 | I 'm going out but before I go I 'll tell you one thing . |
| 11 | ‘ But before I go I 'll have a look at the one I found in the asylum and the one Theodora got from Paul 's church . ’ |
| 12 | Before I go I shall put the ring in a safe place , an appropriate place . |
| 13 | But before I go I said to the |
| 14 | I have took alopecia before I mean I thought maybe |
| 15 | See it might have reached temperature before I mean I do n't know , I ca n't do a |
| 16 | I , I waited until I got back into Switzerland before I said I 've been to Italy and I have n't got a scratch on the car . |
| 17 | I said I thought he was a right in fact I 've never seen Sally like it before I said I felt quite really |
| 18 | one of the lads at work come up says there 's a disco on March twenty eight and before I said I 'm already booked , I said yeah , he says er how much do you charge , I told him and I says well if you let me have confirmation as soon as you can and a deposit of ten or fifteen pounds as soon as you can |
| 19 | ‘ It was n't long before I wished I had never said that . |
| 20 | ‘ My rent is paid up for the next six months , ’ Caro had assured her airily , ‘ before I knew I was leaving . |
| 21 | Need to exactly find out before I knew I 'd got mucked up the whole thing and ca n't send there back either . |
| 22 | I 'd barely finished my prawn cocktail before I realised I could fall for him . ’ |
| 23 | Before I realised I 've got mine . |
| 24 | This is going to sound pretty stupid , but before I left I put one of the baby 's diapers in my kitbag . |
| 25 | Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’ |
| 26 | Before I left I was able to give him the good news about his friend Donald , one of the officers to whom we had given food and clothes on the banks of the Rovacchia . |
| 27 | Before I left I took a half-pound packet of sulphonamide from the car boot . |
| 28 | Before I left I tried to ring Nassim Nassim , my erstwhile landlord and Sunil 's cousin and , I 'd decided by now , the man who had got me into this mess . |
| 29 | Then just before I left I heard that Jennifer 's MS had been diagnosed . |
| 30 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |