Example sentences of "some [noun sg] before [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when he turned to her casually in the car , and suggested that they call in at his house for some tea before they parted , Folly found herself leaping on the suggestion with almost indecent haste . |
| 2 | And one time in Austin it was really bad 'cos we took some acid before we played and I felt really small , like I could n't do anything , like wooahh ! , like vertigo . |
| 3 | Yet his great blue jowls appeared sufficient fortification against the world ; while so immense was his dignity that it was some while before I realized he spent his nights in the arms of my recently widowed mother . |
| 4 | But at the same time she was young , and she wanted to have some fun before she became exactly like her mother . |
| 5 | Beryl gave her some advice before she left on the night flight the following Friday . |
| 6 | He pouches the ball with the eye of a major league outfielder , and that is because he was a player of some repute before he gave up the bat for the bag at the start of the 1970s . |
| 7 | That that was so was originally was available for the ticket you could actually have some supper before you went in or perhaps supper when you came out and that was the sort of thing that was available . |
| 8 | ‘ There was some concern before we moved — particularly about the open plan layout — but by and large people 's fears have not been realised . |
| 9 | Nigel was given a sleeping pill and some cocoa before he went to bed . |
| 10 | This needed some clarification before we began to look for an answer . |
| 11 | It was some time before we retrieved them and went into the piggery . |
| 12 | THE hype began some time before we met . |
| 13 | If I were to bring in everybody else within the United Kingdom , it might be some time before we foregathered . |
| 14 | They had heard it some time before they reached it , the rumble of thunder growing louder as they approached , to become almost deafening at the point where a cloud of spray hovered overhead , the droplets becoming tiny rainbows as they caught the sun . |
| 15 | Science was being taught in public schools and in grammar schools , and there were courses in universities , which in Britain began at about this time to catch on — this was the era when the great municipal universities started to flourish , though it was to be some time before they received government grants . |
| 16 | It was some time before they had Liam fit to drive the cart home . |
| 17 | ‘ They had known each other for some time before they married , though , had n't they ? ’ ventured Greg . |
| 18 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 19 | It was some time before she realised that she was n't just wide awake — she was hungry ! |
| 20 | " Your aunt became interested in selling them some time before she died . |
| 21 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |
| 22 | Following his interview , I wrote an urgent letter about his circumstances to the local housing department , although I recognised that it could be some time before he received any offers of accommodation . |
| 23 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |
| 24 | Indeed , it should be emphasized that Picasso had been dissatisfied with the limitations imposed on pictorial volumes by a scientific or linear system of perspective for some time before he became aware of the fact that Cézanne 's painting suggested a new concept of form and space . |
| 25 | It was some time before he realized that he had been fooled . |
| 26 | It was some time before he realized that the entire Sakata factory was lit from end to end by bright , dazzling light . |
| 27 | He heard the tin bracelets jangling on her wrists and from time to time she bent her head close over her fists as though blowing on reluctant embers ; but it was some time before he realized that he , too , was naked , and that the hands of the Moi girl were stroking and chafing his own body . |
| 28 | Her face seemed familiar , but it was some time before he realized that she was the curly-haired bit who had given him the slip some months back . |
| 29 | When he left Williams for Ferrari , I remember Frank Williams reminiscing at his annual press luncheon that he had fond memories of Alan Jones and Keke Rosberg , but that it would be some time before he had similar memories of Nigel . |
| 30 | Some time before he had asked me if I knew this most neglected of novelists , coming up to talk to me in a blue-green Athenian bar from which he was almost at once to be evicted for a splendid falsetto rendering of ‘ The Lost Chord ’ . |