Example sentences of "long before [pron] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I have no doubt that it wo n't be long before we see him in a Bearcat . |
| 2 | He chose a stance high up in a plane tree where he knew that if they tried climbing he would see them long before they reached him . |
| 3 | Everything happened long before you met him , and we 'll keep him out of it . |
| 4 | I had heard about the Dog Man before on my week-long journey from Kirk Yetholm towards Edale — travellers going north had told me as I journeyed south at first that the Dog Man was only three days ahead of me , then two days ahead of me , and then the final group of walkers had told me that it would n't be long before I caught him up . |
| 5 | But long before he reaches him he recognizes him — from the way he 's sitting , sprawled back in an armchair with his feet on a coffee-table , reading an ancient Amazing Science Fiction ; from his spectacles and rumpled hair ; from the fact that he 's taken his shoes and socks off to cool his feet , and tossed them down on the coffee-table ; from the way he does n't look up , even as Howard comes right up to him , goggling head leading the way , unable to believe his eyes . |
| 6 | She could see him long before she reached him . |