Example sentences of "be before [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Likely what hundreds of others had to do : wonder , and think , and stick their fingers in their ears ; some , on the other hand , might even ask themselves how long it would be before they could try it . |
2 | Already they would be consulting their watches , calculating how long it would be before he could make it . |
3 | And that 's before they could hear it . |
4 | And that 's before they could hear it . |
5 | After all , if your luff is flapping you need to know where it is before you can put it right . |
6 | I needed to find out who I had been told I was before I could contradict it . |