Example sentences of "[adv] before [pron] go [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad was gon na ring you up at eight o'clock before you went to school and say |
| 2 | Sweetheart , I told Mother I was falling in love with you long before we went to the island . |
| 3 | They become readers in the sense of having positive expectations and motivation long before they go to school . |
| 4 | I am particularly afraid of strange dentists , so before I went into the RAF I made sure my teeth were in order . |
| 5 | Said she , she 's going in for her fourth operation presumably to have this stapling done again , she says I believe that she 'd be far more counsellor , I , I would of thought she , she would of had counselling anyway before they go to stage of operating , surely , I mean , er do n't they look in into sort of psychological aspects of it , it 's usually a |
| 6 | It might have been a cat knocking an empty tumbler off the bar — except that they did n't keep a cat , and all the glasses had been washed up and put away before they went to bed . |
| 7 | I also wanted my son Mark , who 's in the army , to give me away before he went on a posting to Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 8 | Okay just before we go off Peter 's erm the first comment you made Peter was about ten K Gs of |
| 9 | Er just before we go onto you union work , what were you having was quite a good employer I believe ? |
| 10 | Chair , just before we go into , there 's one quick thing I would like to add . |
| 11 | I 'd given the warden details of our itinerary , and the call got put straight through to my own room here just before we went for lunch . |
| 12 | It was dated 19 July 1964 , just before they went to Abbotsfield . |
| 13 | ‘ She ought to have told him just before they went to church , ’ said Marian . |
| 14 | She saw him in the wings just before she went on stage and she chose to ignore whatever had happened in the interval . |
| 15 | It occurred to her , just before she went to sleep , that she disliked Miss Sandra Bamfield as much as she had ever disliked anyone … except maybe Tommy Bellinger . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's wrong with her ? ’ asked Juliet , remembering the thin , dark-haired woman who had arrived on a stretcher just before she went for her coffee break . |
| 17 | At least , not just before he goes to sleep . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes he does , just before he goes to bed but you have to put them in just the right place . |
| 19 | He 'd got married just before he went to sea , and he had two voyages and he did n't earn anything . |
| 20 | Just before he went to sleep , he could hear the wind and the rain in the garden , and he thought , for a moment , that he could see the face of an old man at the window . |
| 21 | Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy . |
| 22 | Yeah , the sort of thing Lucy and I were talking about earlier is , it was just before I went on holiday so my memory is kind of hazy , it 's one where I was going to see the Arts Council and see if they were interested in the idea if they work |
| 23 | Just before I went to bed one night , I decided to have a shower . |
| 24 | I was out on the gallery just before I went to bed , looking at all the tapestries and statuettes . |
| 25 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 26 | Just before I went to bed , we heard the sound of a big gun on the marshes . |
| 27 | Called to identify the body just before I went off duty . |
| 28 | An event that stands out occurred at Easter 1922 , just before I went into the Boys ' School . |
| 29 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 30 | Then he looked up at the sky , and saw the plane just before it went behind a cloud on its way to Port au Prince airport . |