Example sentences of "before she [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 Which meant that there was a lot of bed left to investigate before she knew if it was safe even to turn around .
2 It was a few seconds before she realised that it was coming from her .
3 Isabel wondered why she had n't thought of using the laundry gate herself , before she realised that it would have been kept locked .
4 One of the girls had two glasses before she realised that it was the water refreshments and not wine at all .
5 ‘ I wo n't deny that , Mrs Wilson , but there was a period , just before she disappeared … well , I say just before she disappeared but it may have been going on for years , I do n't know … there was a period when she was very unhappy , very unhappy indeed . ’
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