Example sentences of "before i [be] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a tiny glass bead in the door , one of those squint-through devices where you check the daily rapist , but since the landlord has never seen me before I am content to stand there looking serious , like an estate agent with news . |
| 2 | If , having considered the document , you would like to obtain further details it may be necessary for me to disclose your identity to the vendor 's agent before I am able to obtain further information . |
| 3 | Just before I 'm due to come back home , before term starts at university , Nicola 's parents come to visit . |
| 4 | ‘ Try to leave before I 'm ready to let you go and you 'll find out ! ’ |
| 5 | The embarrassment made me postpone going to the clinics for weeks — until the last possible moment , in fact : the day before I was due to board the train that bore me off to this hotel room in Manchester . |
| 6 | I had friends there but I used to just start crying before I was due to go . ’ |
| 7 | About half an hour before I was due to go off , he made my half-hour point . |
| 8 | ‘ The day before I was due to go back to England he asked me to marry him . |
| 9 | ‘ I was all set to do a solo record for Shrapnel , but a couple of months before I was due to do it , Mike Varney introduced me to Jason , who was only 16 at the time . |
| 10 | I was driven by my father down to Orpington , Kent — a suburb of London — on Sunday evening , the day before I was due to start my experience . |
| 11 | I spent a great deal of time and study on it , over half a year , before I was ready to conduct it . |
| 12 | It seemed like an age but it was actually only about 10 seconds before I was able to move my arms and legs . |
| 13 | It was four days before I was able to hold him . |
| 14 | A year passed before I was able to witness this second part of the mayor-making , so it was a different mayor I saw being installed . |
| 15 | It was another six months before I was able to pick up a gun again . |
| 16 | It was another two years before I was able to break through the painful years of silence and begin the fragile , tentative process of making myself whole again . |