Example sentences of "[adv] before i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had a busy day and it was after six o'clock before I got round to The Laurels . |
| 2 | ‘ It would sometimes be ten o'clock before I came home at night . |
| 3 | The classes started at eight o'clock and were supposed to end at ten , but with the usual chatting afterwards it was almost eleven o'clock before I reached home . |
| 4 | Ten o'clock before I put him upstairs . |
| 5 | It 's eleven o'clock before I turn around after finishing the kitchen . |
| 6 | ‘ It was n't long before I wished I had never said that . |
| 7 | ‘ It wo n't be long before I set out on my expedition and I do n't think he 'll be fit to run away from me . ’ |
| 8 | I heard about them long before I came to live here . |
| 9 | It was not very long before I came to see it as simply one fad among others . |
| 10 | Long before I came up to the gate out of Bourani , I saw something whitish lying in the gap . |
| 11 | Long before I came to know north west Scotland I read an article in a yachting journal about sailing and climbing in the mountainous fiords of Norway . |
| 12 | It 's twenty years ago , long before I came here . |
| 13 | Erm , I fully support all the comments about the archive system , I have a membership ticket here , and I was a member of that system long before I came here . |
| 14 | I climbed it long before I knew anything of eponymous lists , and did so again recently . |
| 15 | I thought at the time she sounded a bit over anxious to explain why she had n't told us before , but it was n't long before I knew why . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Long before I knew about Elvis Presley my hero was goalkeeper Charlie Hefferon . |
| 17 | It was n't long before I got caught shoplifting again so I was back on remand at Low Newton — I think I must have been on remand there about eight times . |
| 18 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 19 | Long before I took up climbing on any regular basis I accompanied a friend for a summer evening 's sport at Lawrencefield in Derbyshire . |
| 20 | ‘ It was n't long before I realised that Fabien felt the same too . |
| 21 | There is never a month that I am not overseas , and has n't been for many years — long before I achieved my present position . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's a two-way thing : I had those feelings long before I wrote drafts for the script , but the process of writing and research inflamed them . |
| 23 | ‘ I started short stories long before I wrote any novels . |
| 24 | ‘ It was n't long before I had my first bite which was a 3 lb 7 oz chub . |
| 25 | As this was long before I had any real experience of life myself it was hardly surprising that Shakespeare 's comments should not have meant much to me then . |
| 26 | By coincidence , Jack Henderson had worked with Hellen Semmens ( later my wife ) when they were both involved in the production of Gilbert & Sullivan operas in Winnipeg , long before I had met either of them . |
| 27 | He died a while back , not long before I left Briar Cottage . ’ |
| 28 | Nicole saw it long before I did . |
| 29 | How long before I do ? |
| 30 | It was not long before I started my next voyage , on 7th September , 1710 , as captain of my own ship this time . |