Example sentences of "[adv] before i [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a busy day and it was after six o'clock before I got round to The Laurels . |
| 2 | It 's eleven o'clock before I turn around after finishing the kitchen . |
| 3 | ‘ It wo n't be long before I set out on my expedition and I do n't think he 'll be fit to run away from me . ’ |
| 4 | Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap . |
| 5 | I did n't stay at that school long before I moved down to erm the er Tins School on Chandler Street . |
| 6 | Erm just before I came in from school and we were home by about half three . |
| 7 | ‘ Later in the week he said he was falling in love with me and kissed me just before I got out of the car . |
| 8 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 9 | Just before I snapped out of it , aborted the failed trance , I thought I saw — although I could n't be certain — the ragged hole in the beard through which Gyggle addressed the world unravel a little at its edge , exposing a slug side of what might have been Gyggle 's lip . |
| 10 | ‘ You going up to town , Mum ? ’ he said , as I scribbled my shopping list just before I dashed out of the house to catch my train . |
| 11 | I probably smile slightly before I go out of the room and come back downstairs to commence : |
| 12 | I waited for three buses to go past before I got on to one . |
| 13 | ‘ Look , dottore , they knew I was there before I got out of the car , before they 'd even had a glimpse of me . ’ |