Example sentences of "before the rest [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I shall be able to gloat , having got there before the rest of the media ! |
| 2 | His reading was hesitant owing to a stammer that tied his tongue whenever he was expected to give account of himself before the rest of the class . |
| 3 | Alfonso took the oath , but he never forgave Rodrigo for forcing him to humble himself before the rest of his vassals . |
| 4 | Getting a six foot six quilted rug in a domestic washing machine is often impossible ; the only answer is to wash it by hand in the bath ) and hope that you can clean it out before the rest of the family notice ) or find a launderette that will accept horse rugs . |
| 5 | It was an inexorable social process and almost before the rest of society or history had noticed they had laid claim to the leisure hours of the millions . |
| 6 | Long before the rest of us , Ralph had recognised the quality of those intimate plein air sketches of Welsh valleys and sunlit Neapolitan walls , today so sought after and so expensive . |
| 7 | In [ 12 ] , the adverbial with a click is placed before the rest of the sentence , perversely making us aware of the " click " before the " shutting " which caused it ( see 7.7.1 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ If the road to Heaven ever freezes over you 'll be there before the rest of us . |
| 9 | Trust you , Dwight , to pick a winner , and pick him before the rest of us have heard of him ! |
| 10 | If I should die before the rest of you |
| 11 | Thus , for instance , Italy began building in a Romanesque style earlier than most nations — for its emergence from Roman work was a natural corollary — continued it later , produced little Gothic work and then burst forth into the Renaissance a century and more before the rest of Europe . |
| 12 | Such a structure is particularly likely to form where a promontory on the advancing edge of the continent on the subducting plate collides with the opposing continent well before the rest of the continental margin ( Fig. 3.20(E) , ( F ) ) . |