Example sentences of "time before he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The runner , who has always protested that he is innocent , insists that the only reason he did not provide a sample at the 1991 GRE Cup meeting was that he did not have time before he had to go to work . |
| 2 | Some time before he had asked me if I knew this most neglected of novelists , coming up to talk to me in a blue-green Athenian bar from which he was almost at once to be evicted for a splendid falsetto rendering of ‘ The Lost Chord ’ . |
| 3 | He had keen eyes and quick hands , so it was a long time before he got caught . |
| 4 | But it was to be some time before he began putting his interest to any practical application . |
| 5 | Baxter 's career at Raith Rovers flourished and it was only a matter of time before he became won of Scotland 's most sought after young stars . |
| 6 | It 's only a matter of time before he begins to move north , and I have an itch in my sword arm says the time 's running short . ’ |
| 7 | It would be a long time before he stopped despising himself for having succumbed to a purely physical attraction , and that towards a woman he despised . |
| 8 | He had been sitting by the fire for some time before he decided to open the letter . |