Example sentences of "[adv] before [pron] [modal v] [verb] it " in BNC.

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1 ‘ How long before you can start it ? ’
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 This story was a favourite of the headmistress of her primary school , so she heard it often at Morning Prayers , and long before she could see it as a parable , she already felt shock before its injustice .
5 At the moment , that 's really ‘ up there ’ , out of my reach : you need to have a degree already before you can do it .
6 Aye , that 's what he might have said like before he could fax it up .
7 Bella put her hand on the receiver of the telephone by her chair but , even before she could lift it , she heard someone prise open the bedroom window .
8 Liverpool , the holders , get the chance to play European opposition , namely Swansea , who flirted briefly with the Cup Winners ' Cup this season , losing to Panathinaikos almost before they could pronounce it .
9 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 .
10 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 .
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