Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [num] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was nearly five before she understood what was wrong with me . |
| 2 | Every British academic complains of this problem , but the Germans have it worse because they are almost 30 before they get their degrees , and can not expect an academic job until they get a doctorate and a further qualification for academic teaching , called the habilitation . |
| 3 | Youngsters have to prove they 're over 18 before they 're served . |
| 4 | Of course she could n't make poor Mrs Fanshawe 's bed while they were poking about and it was nearly twelve before she managed to get the poor deluded creature into a chair and the sheets whipped off . |
| 5 | It was almost five before he returned . |
| 6 | It was almost eleven before he appeared , looking as though he had n't slept at all . |
| 7 | It was almost eleven before we left that great mud complex , driving back through Trujillo and on south across dull , desiccated country , a lot of it near-desert . |
| 8 | He had been taught drawing at Eton by ‘ Sammy ’ and Sidney Evans , of the long-established dynasty of drawing masters , and in Oxford at the Ruskin School and by the Slade professor ( Sir ) Charles Holmes [ q.v. ] , but he was over forty before his individual style was formed . |