Example sentences of "of [noun] before i " in BNC.
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| 1 | so quiet and so well respected , he was so kind , you see , and so I 'm grateful and of course before I married , you see , I , we used to have three passes . |
| 2 | It was a couple of hours before I could get back to Eleanor Darcy . |
| 3 | I thought about buying a gun , but decided against that too ; I 'd be out of money before I left . |
| 4 | ‘ I was jealous of Domino before I even met her ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You rest there a while , Mrs Miller , ’ the girl said with unusual boldness , ‘ and I 'll make you a fresh brew of tea before I start on the drawing room . ’ |
| 6 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 7 | All done , were having a cup of tea before I drop Jean at Marg 's . |
| 8 | Or you can say : I 've researched it , I know the idea is right , I 'm going to go in big and I 'm going to have to sustain four or five years of losses before I turn it into a profit . |
| 9 | ‘ Well ’ — Joe laughed now — ‘ it 'll give me a bit of practice before I 'm introduced to the real thing , and that should n't be long now . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was all set to do a solo record for Shrapnel , but a couple of months before I was due to do it , Mike Varney introduced me to Jason , who was only 16 at the time . |
| 11 | I reckon it 's gon na be a , a couple of months before I can put any carpet or anything in . |
| 12 | that do explain a little bit about Abbey Life products and also have a copy of as well erm they might find that of help before I give them a call . |
| 13 | End of February , March , April , God it 's nearly the end of May before I can start playing again |
| 14 | ‘ I drive down hoping to open negotiations with the house owner , ’ he continued , ‘ spend time with Paulo in the office , then grab a bite of lunch before I return to Lisboa , but — ’ |
| 15 | said I was gon na try and learn a bit of German before I went again |
| 16 | I told myself I was gon na learn a bit of German before I went to see Eileen again |
| 17 | Ooh now that started before we took out the mortgage , about a couple of years before I think . |
| 18 | took me a lot of years before I could and I was so pleased when once I was able to say to you I 've Ben had been in the shop and we 'd had a chat had n't we ? |
| 19 | Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back ! |
| 20 | ‘ It will take me a couple of days before I can get organised , ’ he said . |
| 21 | It seemed only a matter of days before I was standing astride my bike at the gates of Sonning Common , together with my good friend Richard Smith ( who I think was twice as mad as me as he did n't have to do it ! ) |
| 22 | I 've got to have some new official piece of evidence before I can go in and start interrogating those old sods . |
| 23 | ‘ In fact , I did n't know him at all and he 'd managed to slip in and out of affairs before I even tumbled to the fact that he was playing around . |
| 24 | I am taking one final bit of advice before I bat it back to Noel Wilson in the Computing Service , and I imagine we will have reached some conclusion to the game before the end of June . |
| 25 | All the old signs appeared : I wanted to be sick , my knees kept quivering , and it took three deep-bowled cups of claret before I could even remember what day of the week it was . |
| 26 | We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left . |
| 27 | Questions buzzed around inside my head and I think there was a glimmer of dawn before I finally dozed off . |
| 28 | I went out with quite a lot of men before I met Stuart . |
| 29 | It takes at least a couple of seconds before I recognize the last straw . |
| 30 | On the cluster erm not having in fact had any erm work on this type of thing before I did n't realise that holding a paper could close you down and in fact without moving my feet I was n't getting movement I was just static and with no use of the hands you were to express yourself sufficiently . |