Example sentences of "before we [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that , that 's what I 'm saying is that , I think what we have to start doing and I 'm not suggesting you 're not doing , but I just want to talk about this in , before we practically kick off on the course proper , I think what , I mean that comes off , and then the oil starts dripping out of it , and the minute the oil starts dripping out , then we become quite a good artist are n't we ? |
| 2 | It was our bad luck that those chances should fall to him before we eventually had to bring him off . ’ |
| 3 | The tow rope snapped twice on the way and was getting shorter and shorter before we eventually got to Darlington . |
| 4 | Is that what we really want , before we irreversibly lurch into it ? |
| 5 | She sensed the tensions we were suffering before we finally parted . |
| 6 | There was an hour of cleaning and a change of crew before we finally lifted off for the short leg down to Abu Dhabi . |
| 7 | We 'd made three or four visits to the area to look around before we finally moved down , but I had no real idea what was happening . |
| 8 | It was to be nine months before we finally emerged again at the other end of the archipelago — shocked , emaciated , but exalted . |
| 9 | It all took time and it was past midday before we finally got away . |
| 10 | ‘ We spent an hour and a half at the post office in Middlesbrough before we finally got into the sorting office to find that 2,500 of our 36,000 leaflets had not been sent out . |
| 11 | C before we just Sorry interrupt . |
| 12 | So that 's something we will need to talk to you about before we just give you a prescription willy-nilly . |
| 13 | Before we even decide what to do today . ’ |
| 14 | But , as Lodge says , ‘ he was thinking his way , with the minimum of intellectual and material support , through the questions which preoccupy us , decades before we even thought of them . ’ |
| 15 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 16 | They had the terms already pre-printed for us and we had agreed them and secured our new property before we even received terms from the others . ’ |
| 17 | Hopper , who plays bad guy Koopa , storms : ‘ The movie was re-written six times before we even started — now it 's re-written every day . ’ |
| 18 | Clearly , you have to know about the strengths , tendencies and habits of a plant before we even open the secateurs , or you could be cutting away the best bloom-bearing wood ! |
| 19 | It 's does smack to me a bit of in-filling and er , Northbrooks is quite a dense area already , a ve , a very dense area erm , and erm I 'm I 'm , you know , I 'd like to see any detailed plans on that before we even look at one in principle . |
| 20 | Before we even begin to consider how such questions could be productively posed , let alone answered , it is perhaps worth asking what it means to have a model of something at all . |
| 21 | We had been warned first to make our obeisances to the dead king before we even acknowledged his long-suffering queen . |
| 22 | I may be able to get a good lead-in shot before we even arrive at the hacienda . |
| 23 | I want each unit costed before we even start to plan the town . ’ |
| 24 | They had her phone bugged before we even thought of going there — and they were never going to leave her alive once they 'd started asking her questions ; how could they ? |
| 25 | Indeed before we even come to the characterization of characters within the drama we find the poem itself being apparently characterized one way but then characterized another in the opening three stanzas : ( As I travelled along a path I heard the tale of one , a spirited man , and proud ; he was wise in learning and splendid under his clothes , and clothed in fine array . |
| 26 | Unless there are any questions you want to ask before we even start . |
| 27 | ‘ As for the Shanghai Trust , ’ Damian concluded , ‘ we need more information before we even begin talks , let alone — ’ |
| 28 | ‘ The odds were 7–2 that I would disappear with the money before we even started , even money that I 'd wait until the houses were built and leg it with the money , ’ recalls the London born-and-bred ‘ community builder ’ , with all the relish of a man who beat the bookies . |
| 29 | If not , he warned : ‘ It could be a couple of years before we even get into the courtroom itself and no-one can say how long the case will run . ’ |
| 30 | and er , when we got them printed , before we even sent them off , there were one , somebody , I 've been talking to the father in , in the father of the bridge |