Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's useful if people feel ill during services or if I want to rest before midnight Mass . |
| 2 | On one occasion I stopped to pray before the statue of a saint at a street corner and noticed the lamp burning before it . |
| 3 | In fact , I 'd suspected before tonight . |
| 4 | Cut adrift from nearly everything I 'd known before seven , I turned inward and invented story games to play alone . |
| 5 | So I affected to quail before Mr Sol 's power-drill rays . |
| 6 | Sometimes I seem to know before those working there do . ’ |
| 7 | Then I started shouting before Shifty and Pointy could react . |
| 8 | the , you know to cool off what I do know before time , I woke up er phew the you know |
| 9 | We 've still got er er a couple of calls I think to come before the end of er this morning 's programme on the subject of erm , I do n't know whether it 's life imprisonment or er on er on divorce . |
| 10 | I liked to think before saying my lines . |
| 11 | I did not see the trophy presented this time as I had to leave before the last race . |
| 12 | Irish hockey coach Cees Koppelaar reflects on his team 's failure to qualify for the World Cup and his plans for the future I know there was some criticism when I had to leave before the final inter-provincial game in Dublin last season — that was because of my club commitments in Holland . |
| 13 | From this point you get one of the best views in the Dales : to your right , Dentdale , Whernside , the foot of Deepdale and Dent town itself ; to your left , northern Dentdale , Frostrow and the Howgills ; while below you are spread the patched and parcelled fields of the dale which , on this June day , were coloured a green the like of which I had seen before only in Ireland . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to come before two great nations died . |
| 15 | It was a profound shock to return to a very different Air Force than the one I had left before my overseas tour , I feel that a typical true story of this period may well illustrate the sense of the time . |
| 16 | For a while , back there under the bam , I had hesitated before arriving at my selection . |
| 17 | It had dawned on me that not only was I leaving the comfortingly familiar surroundings of primary school but that I no longer had any influence whatsoever on the other pupils at the school which I had had before but I was to be demoted to ‘ the annoying first year ’ . |
| 18 | I 've said before that combos are ultimately a compromised amp/speaker setup , due primarily to the demand for portability . |
| 19 | I 've said before that Gary is not a great guitarist because he can play fast ; he 's a great guitarist and he can play fast . |
| 20 | But what 's important , as I 've said before ( page 16 ) , is that the learner should know that there are alternatives , and that words are spelled from options within the language . |
| 21 | So the more overtime you work as I 've said before the less efficient we become . |
| 22 | So I 've said before that erm Mill wants people to vote just in the same way that people cast their votes in a jury on the basis of what 's right . |
| 23 | And erm as I 've said before the A sixty four corridor or the A sixty four road is already an existing high quality dual carriageway road . |
| 24 | It is a fairly large and considerably hairy breed as a rule , but my eventual acquisition turned out to be playing the dog game by his own rules and was larger and hairier than any I 've seen before or since . |
| 25 | Er well it 's actually at the technical side is , I I 've seen before Christmas . |
| 26 | I think that some of the playing on Crowned and on Insomnicide is just as good as virtually anything I 've done before and it 's just sheer nostalgia to suggest otherwise . ’ |
| 27 | I ca n't say we really got to talk properly until we played tennis together at Kyalami in 1976 , just before he took up his Lotus drive , but it was evident from the first that he was of sound mind and body and somehow radically different from any other driver I 've met before or since , and if I were pressed to say why that is so , it has to be because of his utter imperturbability . |
| 28 | It 's very reassuring because it could be quite daunting but all these are friends I 've met before and so it 's lovely to see them here supporting me |
| 29 | No , first time , well first time on Guess the Scores , just the odd quiz that I 've won before ; horse racing . |
| 30 | I 've had before where I have been told waited and helped people finish their |