Example sentences of "before [pron] could get back " in BNC.
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| 1 | A decision had to be made ; or maybe it already had been made by Copper , because if he had decided to lie down before I could get back to him his leg would have been broken irreparably . |
| 2 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |
| 3 | It was a couple of hours before I could get back to Eleanor Darcy . |
| 4 | He was dead before he could get back to his car for the antidote . ’ |
| 5 | He had , moreover , the trials of business to look forward to before he could get back to work . |