Example sentences of "[noun] before i went [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 2 | I was an electrician before I went into acting — I did all the wiring in my house . |
| 3 | Well they sent me , I went on a computer course two days before I went to in hospital and was away for eight weeks and I forgot totally |
| 4 | I got an eyelash stuck right inside fold , and I could n't er shift it for love nor money , it were there about two or three days before I went to doctors . |
| 5 | Anyway erm tt I went down the day before I went into hospital actually for my op , and er |
| 6 | Well aware of the undertaking he added ‘ The day before I went for a load of beers to prepare for the ordeal . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Do you realize it 's two years , six months and six days since I saw you on to a train — possibly this very one — the day before I went to America ? |
| 8 | Well it , it was n't funny that day before I went to the that ear |
| 9 | One night before I went to bed I asked her . |
| 10 | That night , the night before I went to David Rosen 's office to hear Francis 's will , I was woken by a dream . |
| 11 | I took some yesterday , I was and I took some last night before I went to bed and I took two this morning . |
| 12 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 13 | Fortunately an assistant stopped mew before I went through the roof . |
| 14 | In bed before I went to sleep I fantasized about London and what I 'd do there when the city belonged to me . |
| 15 | I flung open my double-glazed windows before I went to sleep and the first call to prayer of the Muslim day was a strident awakening . |
| 16 | I was an only child , so I daresay I got among her feet a lot before I went to school . |
| 17 | Er er well , I would read for an hour before I went to sleep . |
| 18 | I mainly used to chase it in me mate 's house , but sometimes when I got home , I 'd have a toot before I went to bed . |
| 19 | I used to have a bike before I went to school . |
| 20 | Then I went skipping round to the cottage to see Miss Louise before I went to school . |
| 21 | I set out the Government 's objectives in a speech in this House before I went to Maastricht . |
| 22 | I had been enrolled as a student at Canterbury before I went to Cambridge ; during the next four years I was visited by missionaries home on leave from Burma , though nothing definite was said . |