Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] before we [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd see us coming hours before we got up there on foot , the girl would have been spirited away before we got anywhere near her and nobody would speak to us except in their incomprehensible dialect . |
| 2 | We have , as it were , given up before we have started . |
| 3 | ‘ Exactly , ’ he retorted , ‘ that 's why you should have filled up before we set off . ’ |
| 4 | For , as Neil Bartlett points out , that nice little word was corrupted long before we got our sticky fingers on it . |
| 5 | It must be pointed out before we go any further that my friends in Harwich had a rather distorted picture of my life in that they only ever saw the best of me . |
| 6 | An uneasy feeling that we should wait to be asked back before we repeat an invitation , coupled with the rarity with which we have the energy to entertain , can reduce social intercourse to an annual gesture rather than a matter of maturing friendships . |
| 7 | We had n't gone far before we spied the punt entangled in the branches of a willow which had collapsed into the stream . |
| 8 | We galloped along the sand , and I knew what had happened long before we reached the rocks where the King lay . |
| 9 | It is extraordinary that that has been resisted even before we have received the first results . |
| 10 | The buck was already being passed again before we had even started . |