Example sentences of "before she [vb past] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even before she registered that there was no child , she saw his anger . |
| 2 | She was half way up Stanley Street before she recovered and her heart stopped sinking in her breast . |
| 3 | Mrs Prentice , had to wait until 2.20am before she knew that she would be joining him in the House , ousting Tory Energy Minister Colin Moynihan , in the process . |
| 4 | Which meant that there was a lot of bed left to investigate before she knew if it was safe even to turn around . |
| 5 | It was a full minute before she realised that she was looking at a reflection of herself in the polished metal shield that Simon had propped against a tree to protect her from any stray arrows . |
| 6 | It was some time before she realised that she was n't just wide awake — she was hungry ! |
| 7 | She was lying on an examination couch before she realised that he had undressed , as well . |
| 8 | It took a few seconds before she realised that he had pulled himself away from her . |
| 9 | It was a few seconds before she realised that it was coming from her . |
| 10 | Isabel wondered why she had n't thought of using the laundry gate herself , before she realised that it would have been kept locked . |
| 11 | One of the girls had two glasses before she realised that it was the water refreshments and not wine at all . |
| 12 | The lady was being offered a gas mask by Carter and gladly took it , just before she fainted as they entered the smoke filled floor . |
| 13 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |
| 14 | Thus she was quite close to the bath chair before she realized that its waxen-faced occupant was none other than the old man who , in his eerie fashion , had been so kind in the train . |
| 15 | Joseph would be going back to the United States soon and would be beyond her gossip , but if Maurin convinced her of Joseph 's innocence , then how long would it be before she realized that he , too , had a strong financial motive for wanting the truth about the Durances kept secret ? |
| 16 | He told me before she came that she was asking for somewhere secret to stay for a short time . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | It was several minutes before she decided that he really was n't there . |
| 19 | She rejected about a dozen of these sample shades before she mentioned that they cost sixty or seventy pence each . |