Example sentences of "[noun] before i [vb past] [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 | For a few seconds the sheer force of the wind supported my weight before I stumbled into a lull between squalls . |
| 3 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 4 | I had already seen a couple of ringed seals , several eider duck , many Arctic terns and kittiwakes and a few scruffy immature glaucous gulls before I crept into my bunk to sleep . |
| 5 | I was an electrician before I went into acting — I did all the wiring in my house . |
| 6 | We decided to abandon fishing and head for home before I froze to death . |
| 7 | I had to promise mum I 'd write to each of them , and apologise in person at the first possible opportunity , and also that I 'd stop off at Lochgair before I returned to Glasgow , to see dad . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But I knew the score before I moved to Ayresome Park last summer . ’ |
| 11 | But I knew the score before I moved to Ayresome Park last summer . ’ |
| 12 | He went on , ‘ Matt lived here alone for years before I came on the scene . |
| 13 | They all shook hands with me , and the Frenchman gave me a bag containing one dozen eggs before I clambered over the wall and into the orchard . |
| 14 | Once , in the early days , it had failed completely , and sometimes I had had to take a double dose before I changed into Hyde . |
| 15 | Anyway erm tt I went down the day before I went into hospital actually for my op , and er |
| 16 | Well aware of the undertaking he added ‘ The day before I went for a load of beers to prepare for the ordeal . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 18 | Well it , it was n't funny that day before I went to the that ear |
| 19 | ‘ A particularly heartening statistic when I checked the figures before I came to the Netherlands was that this market — with a relatively small population of only 15 million inhabitants — continues to be the biggest export market for Wedgwood in Continental Europe , ’ he said . |
| 20 | One night before I went to bed I asked her . |
| 21 | That night , the night before I went to David Rosen 's office to hear Francis 's will , I was woken by a dream . |
| 22 | I took some yesterday , I was and I took some last night before I went to bed and I took two this morning . |
| 23 | If I had asked myself these questions before I rushed into marriage , I would have been a lot better off . |
| 24 | ‘ I lost my father before I signed for Rangers and his death had a devastating effect on me since we had always been so close , and not simply because he had been a professional goalkeeper in his time , ’ Goram said . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Fortunately an assistant stopped mew before I went through the roof . |
| 27 | ‘ And I had to lose a good , good woman before I came to my senses . |
| 28 | I met Belinda — the Belinda from Sotheby 's — and we had a little chin-wag before I looked round the exhibition . |
| 29 | I only wish that someone had opened the exit door before I passed through it . |
| 30 | I walked over to the door before I spoke to her . |