Example sentences of "out of [noun] before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably they 're afraid it will run out of money before it 's their turn . |
| 2 | I thought about buying a gun , but decided against that too ; I 'd be out of money before I left . |
| 3 | This way , you will begin the pan smoothly and avoid running out of body-swing before you reach the end . |
| 4 | Pascoe pictured the woman watching the man out of sight before she turned back to the phone . |
| 5 | Martin held back , and she waited until James was out of sight before she spoke . |
| 6 | Why were n't they ruled out of order before they transgressed ? |
| 7 | They threw us out of China before we got to Tibet . ’ |
| 8 | Adopt a system that alerts to you the fact that you are running out of forms before you actually do so ; put a note in the drawer ten forms from the bottom for this purpose . |
| 9 | ‘ In fact , I did n't know him at all and he 'd managed to slip in and out of affairs before I even tumbled to the fact that he was playing around . |
| 10 | This actually allows the lift maintenance monitoring organisations to know that the lift is out of action before you do . |
| 11 | Erm we do n't see a great deal of difference that they 've had the same problem as we 've had , in that we ran out of time before we could put the er finished act together properly . |
| 12 | She was afraid of running out of time before she got to the point . |
| 13 | Unless their captor had a secret supply of them , Peter reckoned he would be out of smokes before they moved . |
| 14 | ‘ Kicked out of Oundle before I had a chance to get to grips with the first line of the Aeneid , if you want to know the truth . |