Example sentences of "before i could [verb] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 2 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 3 | Before I could twist my face into anything faintly resembling a sneer , the vendor explained that there were four such structures in a similar state of repair and that a Frenchman had expressed great interest . |
| 4 | Richard was out of the car before I could open my door . |
| 5 | it 's erm , please leave your name and number , and the postal area code and I could n't figure out what they meant , your post code , or what , anyway , I sort , I , I left this long pause , shut your face I left this really long pause , and it just like clicked off before I could leave my phone number , so they 've got my , my answer and my names , but they have n't got my phone number , so I thought well , that 's not much good , they ca n't phone you , can they ? |
| 6 | Benjamin seized my wrist before I could grasp my knife . |