Example sentences of "before [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Now let me see myself in a glass , " Sara said eventually , and when one was brought gave a gasp of surprise , because she had not worn the high collar before or had her hair braided , and although these strange garments were a little uncomfortable and restricting she could n't help admiring the slashed sleeves , the low , square neck and the wonderful wide skirt that swept the stone floor . |
| 2 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 3 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 4 | Mahmoud thought of the way Zoser had escaped before and wavered slightly . |
| 5 | They had never been on Scottish waters before and planned to go round Skye . |
| 6 | In the event the Plymouth group did very little after 1609 but in 1607 the Londoners committed themselves more fully than before and launched an expedition which founded a settlement at Jamestown in Chesapeake Bay . |
| 7 | Anyway , the Americans were swearing like troopers , using language that he , Cyprian , had never heard before and hoped never to hear again ; then in stepped the British sergeant , who was quite out of this world … |
| 8 | Do n't despair if you 've tried before and failed . |
| 9 | This sort of thing has been tried before and failed . |
| 10 | Professional musicians are mostly a cynical lot — they 've heard it all before and played it all before too . |
| 11 | It is a lesson which has been painfully learned , or sometimes never learned , by several of those who went before and came after . |
| 12 | Yet in the outcome the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , with over 300 amendments to the original Bill having been debated for more than sixty hours in the Commons Standing Committee , suffered the fate of those that went before and came after . |
| 13 | Many of them have never acted before and came thick and fast to auditions with high hopes for a moment 's glory on ’ Inspector Morse . ’ |
| 14 | Be a pal , Kate , and slip me the copy of Gay News you hide under your desk because I do n't allow it in the library , talk about work , Kate , discuss how we spend £5000 on economics books for the university libraries , tell me about how you 're stopping the students thieving my favourite art books , but please for God 's sake , Kate , do n't be difficult , do n't talk about imperialism and marxism and feminism , I 've heard it all before and said it all myself , twenty years ago before I had a wife and children to support . |
| 15 | He had never been in hospital before and consulted his General Practitioner infrequently . |
| 16 | Sometimes it would be Bessie , Billie , names we 'd all heard before and knew about ; her favourite fistful , the one she would recite just before she got up on stage , was Mae , Marie , Maria , Anna Mae B , La Miss , Marian … |
| 17 | Mr Trelawney had been to sea before and knew enough to be useful , and one of the men , Israel Hands , was a careful and experienced seaman who was able to help with almost anything . |
| 18 | You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them . |
| 19 | Then I read who 'd done ‘ Matchbox ’ before and saw the name ‘ C. Perkins ’ . |
| 20 | It was the court which Benjamin Haydon appeared before and ordered his release . |
| 21 | The young woman had visited both the museum and the castle before and had looked down from their heights onto the epidemic of streets below , between the top of the hill and the broad curve of the Bay . |
| 22 | He wielded it self-consciously , as though he had never owned one before and had just bought it in a Harrods sale . |
| 23 | But he 'd stood up well to that first interview , hindered rather than helped by the presence of his solicitor , who had never seen his client before and had made it painfully apparent that he would prefer never to see him again . |
| 24 | The tug-master had never , of course , towed a large sailing vessel before and had no experience of the windward effect of three tall masts in a gale . |
| 25 | But more often than not , whenever they were under the same roof together , he shared her bed and , now that her initial awkwardness had abated — for she had never seen a naked human being of either sex before and had always been discouraged from looking too closely at herself — he made love to her with a straightforward vigour she found attractive . |
| 26 | Despite declarations that there would be no deal , officials yesterday grudgingly confirmed a Washington Post account of negotiations between Gen Noriega 's lawyers and the State Department , begun before and continued after the abortive coup in October . |
| 27 | The full story of his operations against the British Isles may conveniently be given here , though this began before and continued after the main French invasion effort . |
| 28 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 29 | The first boy says he 's never had vegge burgers before and thought it would be a good idea to try them . |
| 30 | This had not happened on such a scale before and encouraged MacMillan to stage another biographical work , Isadora , which followed the pattern of his earlier Anastasia . |