Example sentences of "[adv] before [pers pn] can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you stay still , you can hear other people moving towards you long before they can see you . |
| 2 | ‘ How long before you can start it ? ’ |
| 3 | Going home next day , he noticed as he waited on the platform for the tube to Baker Street , that the track sings as the train comes into West Hampstead , long before you can see it , and the silver lines shiver as it approaches . |
| 4 | Outdoor pelota you can hear long before you can see it , because the sharp crack of the ball on the end-wall carries all through or even outside the villages . |
| 5 | I believe that the new generation of " 16 bit " machines ( such as the ACT Sirius 1 ) will prove to be well capable of meeting these demands If I may be permitted one small advertisement , I do not expect it to be long before I can fulfil my objective of promoting the use of micros in personnel through the marketing of systems developed specifically for this field . |
| 6 | At the moment , that 's really ‘ up there ’ , out of my reach : you need to have a degree already before you can do it . |
| 7 | Faced by the Greek leaders come to manipulate him back to the war Achilles stalks off before they can reach him , pointedly speaking prose : ‘ Come , Patroclus , I 'll speak with nobody . |
| 8 | There are many layers of hurt to peel off before they can see their parent as a human being seeking a way out of a private torment . |
| 9 | It will take some weeks now before I can contact my friend and ask him … ask for the information to be repeated . ’ |
| 10 | Almost before you can see what has come up out of the hold the fish is loaded on the barrow and trundled off at breakneck speed , followed by the small boys and the cats . |
| 11 | If the fractions to be added have different denominators , then before you can add them , you have to alter the denominators so that they are all the same . |
| 12 | " We 'll have to get her out of there before I can do anything , Mr Stokill . " |
| 13 | Philip 's got quite a way to go yet before he can beat me . ’ |
| 14 | I 've got to go all the bloody way round before I can buy anything . |
| 15 | We do not have to encode what we want to say from something else before we can say it , or decode it before we can understand it . |
| 16 | I s'pose now we has to put up with young Doctor Lovell dashing in and out again before you can tell him what ails you . ’ |
| 17 | I find it difficult to remember so many different things about chemistry , where at least with physics I seem to remember what things are supposed to be about … with physics you see it and understand it and it 's stored , with chemistry … there are so many complicated formulae and whatever you 've got to look at it again before you can regurgitate it . |