Example sentences of "[adv] before [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , ‘ I 'll dry , ’ Travis volunteered swiftly before she could open her mouth . |
| 2 | They guessed she was on a bad trip and moved in swiftly before she could hurt herself . |
| 3 | ‘ I think , Miss Everett , ’ he cut in before she could tell him that Travis had only called to apologise when he 'd stopped by for his car , ‘ that it might be in your interests not to see him again . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps I may be permitted to take you , ’ Lubor jumped in before she could draw another breath . |
| 5 | Sarah jumped in before he could change his mind . |
| 6 | He used to go to a lotta places er that as knocked down or , well I could n't tell you the kind of job , but often there was some locks on the premises was er , perhaps needed repair or he wanted them to be in before he could leave the job and say here you are , that 's the job done . |
| 7 | Angrily she cut in before he could finish . |
| 8 | But I had the amp set with the treble full on , the presence full on and the bright switch kicked in before I could get close to what I 'd call a classically nasty Telecaster bridge pickup tone . |
| 9 | She had laughed then at the vivid imagination of the child , but now for a brief moment she saw the city as Maggie saw it , basking in the first rays of the sun and oblivious to the dangerous mist below that might suck it in before it could wake up and take wing against the now blue blue sky . |
| 10 | It was five o'clock before they could hear the results of his conversation . |
| 11 | But it was still ten o'clock before I could get down to meet Marie . |
| 12 | They would not expect the taking of Perth and Scone to be easy , and night would fall long before they could send back to clear out Abernethy and Forteviot , or before they could press on the further twelve miles to Dunkeld . |
| 13 | Clarity , which anticipated becoming that magical $100m company , has been criticized for putting in a $100m company 's infrastructure complete with six vice presidents long before it could financially justify it . |
| 14 | This fact was in my consciousness , and unconscious , long before I could understand the explanation for this state of affairs . |
| 15 | ( The present writer 's introduction to Wallis Budge 's books on ancient Egypt , long before he could read them with understanding , led him — forty years later — to the temples of Karnak and Luxor and to the Valley of the Kings . ) |
| 16 | Long before he could goad the aircraft to anywhere near its optimum ceiling , Vologsky would be frozen , evacuated or crushed to death . |
| 17 | What need had he , John-William Dallam , for a grandson , he thought grimly , when he would be dead and gone , by the look of things , long before he could teach the little chap how to run the mill ? |
| 18 | This story was a favourite of the headmistress of her primary school , so she heard it often at Morning Prayers , and long before she could see it as a parable , she already felt shock before its injustice . |
| 19 | Christina hoped it would n't be too long before she could make her escape . |
| 20 | She was beginning to be more than a bit worried about the expenses involved in her escape , and hoped it would n't be too long before she could escape back to anonymity and London . |
| 21 | Only before we could get a team out to intercept them she disappeared . ’ |
| 22 | But I do n't know anything about selling things , only before I could tell that to the woman who owns the stall she 'd rushed off to follow someone called Harry — who 's not getting away with it , ’ she tacked on comically . |
| 23 | Secord remembered how they would get ‘ sermonized ’ , and how ‘ we had a lot to live down before we could do business . ’ |
| 24 | Yet we consoled ourselves with what we took to be a furtive glint of triumph in Ranteallo 's eyes as he accepted our pig money , and swore to us that he would not burn the house down before we could make it back from filming the king 's burial in the death-cliffs . |
| 25 | Determining the specific relationship for the reservoir was problematic as Young explains : ‘ We had to take a lot of data from nearby cored wells and simplify it right down before we could build an accurately predictive model . ’ |
| 26 | He put the receiver down before she could ask more . |
| 27 | A decision had to be made ; or maybe it already had been made by Copper , because if he had decided to lie down before I could get back to him his leg would have been broken irreparably . |
| 28 | He was ridden down before he could reach the comparative safety of his parsonage at Yateley . |
| 29 | She left him suddenly before he could argue , or offer to accompany her , and dived through the crowd towards the kitchen . |
| 30 | She looked as if she was waiting for me so before she could say anything I spoke . |