Example sentences of "before that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |
| 2 | Before that I had never known that human beings could do such things to others , but after that I knew . |
| 3 | Margaret Thatcher had kept her word given over five years before that I would not lose out by my enforced move to Transport and I was now in charge of the biggest spender and largest employer in Whitehall . |
| 4 | About five weeks before that I had come home in my first university term , and got undressed for my bath in front of the bathroom mirror . |
| 5 | ‘ I was always the top broker at any firm I worked for on Wall Street and before that I sold memberships at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 6 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 7 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |
| 8 | I 've had a girlfriend for two and a half years , but before that I 'd never spoken to a girl in my life . |
| 9 | Before that I was Henry VIII — it was great , apart from a bit of aggro with the wives . |
| 10 | I know this was the first time they 'd ever thought of or considered themselves as artists , before that I guess they just thought they were lucky . |
| 11 | However , using any form of medication should be a last resort and it is only in the last four or five years that I have used herbal remedies ( for eighteen years before that I used no treatments ) as a lot of minor problems will heal themselves , provided that the tank is healthy and the water quality is good . |
| 12 | I 'd told him before that I could n't sing a note but he 'd obviously ignored it . |
| 13 | Before that I used to have — and this is true — NME s smuggled into East Berlin via Poland . |
| 14 | Before that I 'd been happy to think of him vaguely in terms of Sartre , de Beauvoir , Paris , existentialism , absurdity … |
| 15 | You could n't join the library until you were seven , and before that I read my Hans Christian Anderson back to front when I 'd read it twenty times from start to finish . |
| 16 | I told you once before that I was selfish . |
| 17 | For two years previous to the war I had been painting ; before that I was a school master teaching drawing and painting . |
| 18 | Er previous to that I held the licence for The Mason 's Arms at for three years previous to that and before that I 've been connected with the catering and licence trade from being fifteen . |
| 19 | It must have crossed your imagination before that I make love to women . |
| 20 | ‘ Though of course before that I 'd already done my bit : I was one of Our Lads , I was an Expeditionary , part of the Task Force that recaptured Maggie 's surrendered popularity . ’ |
| 21 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 22 | ‘ Before that I was modelling clothes for some of the best fashion-houses in London — and in Paris too , sometimes . ’ |
| 23 | He seemed so much more sensible than before that I agreed to have lunch with him . |
| 24 | There were times when I tried to tell him before that I was just sleeping with him because he wanted to sleep with me , but he 's a person who can get easily upset , and I did n't want to hurt him . |
| 25 | She must have realised some years before that I was n't headed in the direction of St Margaret 's , Westminster , but she had still intended the occasion to glitter , a bright milestone in our uneventful lives . |
| 26 | Before that I left the light on . |
| 27 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 28 | Even before that I had put on some weight which did n't all drain away during my illness . |
| 29 | Before that I was erm living with some fr friends in Liverpool . |
| 30 | And before that I was m back in Nottingham . |