Example sentences of "[vb base] before [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agree or disagree before we form any concrete opinions about which institutions or officials must act and what they must do in consequence of whatever rights we declare people have . |
| 2 | We know what we want before we start . |
| 3 | Our advice is to take time to find out what they really want before they give away the sites to the private investors , because when they have done this , they ca n't erm participate in what is really developing . |
| 4 | ‘ Have you everything you want before I go ? ’ she asked . |
| 5 | Yeah , if we 've got time , right , see if mummy can , oh I know what I want before I do that |
| 6 | ‘ Your rudeness , your infuriating superiority , and your lack of patience with anyone who is n't psychic enough to know what you want before you ask for it . ’ |
| 7 | Erm , the sorry one thing I was going say before we finish , because is our only American here , and since Woodrow Wilson was a great American . |
| 8 | I might even get a couple of hours sleep before we reach London . |
| 9 | ‘ My lady needs food and sleep before anything . ’ |
| 10 | Should I lay them on the doorstep and vamoose before she responded to the bell ? |
| 11 | That 's where they report before they start and that 's where they report after they 're finished . ’ |
| 12 | You may snort and think that this is very far-fetched but you can be assured that the majority of lecturers who appear before you not only know their subjects but are enthusiastic about them and about transmitting their knowledge to you . |
| 13 | You pay out twenty pounds a week the officer of the court is agreed and the address will be given to you by the court usher before you leave it is your responsibility to make sure that money is paid each and every week , the first payment is due by next Tuesday . |
| 14 | The film crew and myself were left scratching our heads , accepting that we had a long wait before we could even contemplate some kind of interview . |
| 15 | New faces are arriving all the time and in some cases actors make a quick start with a first job or they may have a relatively long wait before they get off the mark . |
| 16 | Customers face a long wait before they have a chance of getting any money back . |
| 17 | Meanwhile judging from the way today 's auction went , the breweries and banks could have a long wait before they get their money back from pubs that close . |
| 18 | But wait before you rush to call the NSPCC . |
| 19 | ‘ Stop before we reach the house , if you please , and set me down . ’ |
| 20 | Next time you stop before it 's all finished you 'll go straight into The Chokey and I shall lock the door and throw the key down the well ! ’ |
| 21 | Give traffic plenty of time to see you and stop before you start to cross . |
| 22 | So as you come in raise the daggerboard , lift the rudder and then when you come into shallow water , turn the boat up towards the wind to lose power for the sail and stop before you hit those rocks . |
| 23 | No goodwill speeches , no glowing perorations about ‘ the patience of our people under misfortune ’ alter the plain fact that if people have to live and bear and bring up children in bad houses on too little food , their resistance to disease is lowered and they die before they should . |
| 24 | The EIA has collected evidence from Senegal , the world 's largest bird exporting country , which shows that half the birds caught die before they have even reached the airport for export . |
| 25 | Infant mortality is phenomenally high , and many children die before they reach six years of age . |
| 26 | The zoos ' founding stock of lar gibbons came from the wild , and the usual way to catch gibbons is to shoot mothers and take away their infants , many of which die before they reach their destinations . |
| 27 | A local spokesman for the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) commented that " there is no such thing as selective trapping because all sorts of protected birds end up in the nets and die before they can be released " . |
| 28 | ‘ And if you did , ’ said Bodie tiredly , ‘ you 'd grow old and die before you told us . ’ |
| 29 | I hope I die before I get old . |
| 30 | N : If I die before I 'm dead , please shoot me in the head |