Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] before [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bissett had once met the gaunt technician from A45 who had apparently received through a faulty glove a particle of plutonium the size of a pinhead and whose body had been cremated six months later before there could be an inquest . |
| 2 | We were back in the car with the heater on before you could say ‘ Who finished the soup ? ’ and another attempt was foiled . |
| 3 | At the moment , that 's really ‘ up there ’ , out of my reach : you need to have a degree already before you can do it . |
| 4 | He ate the strawberries quickly before anyone could ask him for one . |
| 5 | But the generals could not afford to wait , and started work well before they could get any useful political guidance . |
| 6 | His mere presence signals the fact that the opposition will have to bury the side ten feet under before they will concede victory . |
| 7 | ‘ Pilots are the most important factor in the treatment of an engine ’ , commented Tony , who has seen several powerplants come back to the care of his team long before they need have done , had they been handled correctly . |
| 8 | I mean , it 's years normally before someone can get a car . |
| 9 | It will take some weeks now before I can contact my friend and ask him … ask for the information to be repeated . ’ |
| 10 | Oh a long time , er , matter of years really before I could settle down at , as I say to me it was roots |
| 11 | He left the room abruptly before anyone could respond , and it was only when Belinda heard his powerful car start up in the driveway that she realised he was n't coming back . |
| 12 | The thought went through my mind , she ca n't help me ! — It must be years yet before she will come to write her masterpiece . |
| 13 | A patch of moonlight means I have to wait nearly five minutes for the clouds to cover the moon again before I can climb the tree . |
| 14 | Clarity , which anticipated becoming that magical $100m company , has been criticized for putting in a $100m company 's infrastructure complete with six vice presidents long before it could financially justify it . |
| 15 | From what Travis had said , she had gathered that he 'd cut his tongue out before he would tell a soul where Rosemary lived . |
| 16 | The little one 's heard Mummy pull up on the drive and has come down the stairs well before anyone could say anything he got it out . |
| 17 | But , have a heart , you have to first keep the nation together before you can think of developing it . |
| 18 | The problem with pen computing , as Nick Eades , IBM 's brand manager for portables , is the first to point out , is that the handwriting recognition software needs to be a whole lot better before it can really appeal to the masses . |
| 19 | He put the receiver down before she could ask more . |
| 20 | Tom would have had to be pushed a lot further before he would have done it . |
| 21 | I started to put together a little library and had to teach myself a lot more before I could teach anyone else . |
| 22 | But it would be several more hours yet before she could do that . |
| 23 | There was an hour yet before she need put in an appearance in the restaurant for the evening meal . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've threatened to shut the hotel down before I 'll give them the 12 per cent they 're asking for . |
| 25 | I 've got to go all the bloody way round before I can buy anything . |
| 26 | L trials are usually more difficult to organize the teacher may have to plan some considerable way ahead before you can observe lessons where he has used the program several times before . |
| 27 | Yet we consoled ourselves with what we took to be a furtive glint of triumph in Ranteallo 's eyes as he accepted our pig money , and swore to us that he would not burn the house down before we could make it back from filming the king 's burial in the death-cliffs . |
| 28 | Out in the open the bird can fly enormous distances , so even if you spotted one , the chances are it would have flown miles away before you could get your camera ready to shoot . |
| 29 | Liverpool , the holders , get the chance to play European opposition , namely Swansea , who flirted briefly with the Cup Winners ' Cup this season , losing to Panathinaikos almost before they could pronounce it . |
| 30 | Tisane , like tilleul , was in Frederica 's vocabulary , the word , not the thing , but it was some time yet before she would understand their connection with Proust , who had entered her consciousness largely through a striking nightmare , dreamed the night before her Oxford entrance examination , which she recalled , as M. Grimaud talked and the scented trees brushed past . |