Example sentences of "few [noun] before i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 2 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 3 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 4 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 5 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 6 | He arrived a few weeks before me at the Elephant and retired just a few weeks before I left the department after the 1987 general election . |
| 7 | But , says Frank , ‘ a few weeks before I got to see a specialist I passed what looked like a bucket-full of blood into the toilet . |
| 8 | Fortunately , however , a few weeks before I found it I attended a lecture given by a Dr Peter Herring , of an oceanographic research institute based in Godalming , on the subject of marine bioluminescence . |
| 9 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 10 | I saw the rolled-up rug under the workbench and it was a few seconds before I realized that she was n't inside it any more . |
| 11 | Perhaps he 'd risked time to practise with a few shots before I got there . |
| 12 | I saw no signs and had gone a few miles before I saw my first human being . |