Example sentences of "even before [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even before we reached Templecombe our deaths were planned . |
| 2 | I ease a few points ahead , Martin puts in a break of 12 , I confidently reply with one of 13 , and even before we reach the colours Martin is beginning to display the McEnroic aspect of his game that always encourages opponents . |
| 3 | In a sense , the hype answered that question even before we saw the programme . |
| 4 | Even before we 'd exchanged a word , I knew that she would let me do anything I wanted to her . |
| 5 | Even before we had left the environs of Mount Pleasant airport , we had seen upland geese grazing unconcernedly alongside the runway , and we crossed creeks where small parties of speckled teal were swimming . |
| 6 | Even before we had left the outskirts of Makassar , Abu grinned into my face and asked , " In your country , chickens fly ? " |
| 7 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
| 8 | I saw Signe standing among the red-roofed airport huts even before we landed , and while we taxied in she was running and waving and smiling a gigantic smile . |
| 9 | Then there 's Helen , who knows everybody and is highly respected to say nothing of Betty , who will praise us up to the skies even before we 've spayed one cat . ’ |
| 10 | In one sense , Mentmore was a lost cause even before we began . |
| 11 | It is extraordinary that that has been resisted even before we have received the first results . |
| 12 | even before we have mentioned it well I know |
| 13 | All this presents a problem , even before we consider issues of differing attainments . |
| 14 | All of these aspects of the production of the text affect its meaning , both from the point of view of the author 's intention and of the most probable interpretation , even before we consider the wider social situations in which it may be encountered . |
| 15 | Thus , we may be helped to avoid the trap of ruling out as irrelevant , even before we start , whatever forms of knowledge may not fit into the currently accepted general scientific approach to reality as a whole . |
| 16 | Everyone can see the benefits even before we start . ’ |
| 17 | You 'd be surprised , some of them make bookings with the beautician and hairdresser even before they come on board . ’ |
| 18 | Terry Lovell 's Pictures of Reality was a seminal text in this respect , since it presented a scrupulous critique of the semiotic and psychoanalytical preoccupations of film theory even before they came into full swing in feminism . |
| 19 | Very soon , even before they went under dome , Arcady surrounded them from horizon to horizon , its size so prodigious that it banished all Ari 's ideas of what a city might be . |
| 20 | Erm probates Or rather procedure on death because probate is proving a will , in the Latin if there 's no will it 's letters of administration which is a similar procedure , except that the will speaks from death and therefore your appointment of the executors is effective from death and therefore your appointment of executors is effective from death , they can do certain things even before they 've proven the will Which administrators ca n't do cos they do n't have the power until they 've proved that they 're the people entitled . |
| 21 | Even before they had left , his PA , Caroline Amphlett , had come in to take away the tea cups and clear the table . |
| 22 | But even before they had Charlotte knew what they would find . |
| 23 | They drove towards Ashdown Forest , and even before they had found a suitable place to stop , Charlotte had begun to recount the events of the past week in such detail that it was obvious she was holding nothing back . |
| 24 | Shamefully , she had had a vision of his body naked , even before they had gone to bed together , her first intimation that she was beginning to feel more for him than she ought , for the vision had not frightened but intrigued her . |
| 25 | ‘ More than ten million men have died for their country , and some even before they had finished growing , ’ Charlie wrote in a letter to his sister Sal . |
| 26 | Will Labour policy on the NHS mean that patients get treatment even before they fall ill ? |
| 27 | Such individuals are often of low tested IQ even before they fall ill , certainly afterwards their intellectual performance is poor . |
| 28 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |
| 29 | That was even before they 'd asked him what qualifications he 'd got . |
| 30 | The water was warm and still and so very clear that they could see the lights of the suspended arc-lamps even before they dipped below the surface of the darkened Aegean . |