Example sentences of "before [pron] could get to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I left again , before I could get to the chow I had ordered . |
| 2 | At her first move to get up he leaned over and lifted the bike from her , but before she could get to her feet he was beside her , sitting on the grass and looking down into her flushed face . |
| 3 | She was still feeling a little anxious when she thought of all she would have to do before she could get to bed that night . |
| 4 | With a small exclamation she snapped the book shut , but before she could get to her feet Marc glanced up . |
| 5 | she must 've been holding it in because she did n't wan na wipe her bum with her hand and then you know it just burst out before she could get to the toilet . |
| 6 | Pieces of broken plaster-board , old doors , tarpaulins and coils of rope had to be negotiated before we could get to the desk clerk . |
| 7 | But er we , we had quite a difficulty , very , very difficult , we used to have to walk a long way before we could get to a telephone . |
| 8 | They got stuck in a traffic jam , however , and were caught with tools and stolen Federal Express property before they could get to the works of art . |
| 9 | He slapped at it with his other hand , but it was beneath his thumbnail before he could get to it . |
| 10 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |
| 11 | Bad as were the irregularities of the Freeholders ' elections , the irregularities in the burghs were , if anything , worse , one of the reasons being that while the county representative needed only one election meeting to be appointed , the burgh representative had to be successful in two elections before he could get to Westminster . |