Example sentences of "before i come to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I 'd never done weights before I came to Chelsea , and my wife gives me better things to eat than bananas . |
| 2 | ‘ And I had to lose a good , good woman before I came to my senses . |
| 3 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 4 | ‘ The fire had been lit before I came to the office . |
| 5 | . Sir I am the present overseer but these things was before I came to the Parish . |
| 6 | A lot A lot of well quite a few people and I mean th have been in the flats way before I came to . |
| 7 | Before I came to India , I had not realized that the English word ‘ paradise ’ was borrowed from the ancient Persian words pairi ( around ) and daeza ( a wall ) . |
| 8 | ‘ A particularly heartening statistic when I checked the figures before I came to the Netherlands was that this market — with a relatively small population of only 15 million inhabitants — continues to be the biggest export market for Wedgwood in Continental Europe , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's funny , everybody could see me before I came to Spain . ’ |
| 11 | Is the Minister aware that , before I came to this place , I served for many years on a local authority as chairman of the environmental health committee , which had a wonderful section for meat inspection ? |
| 12 | I refer to Burnley , whose council I led before I came to the House . |
| 13 | It just so happens that , before I came to this debate this morning , I was flicking through a pile of press cuttings when I came across one from The Journal ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) , a north-eastern regional newspaper . |
| 14 | Before I came to prison I thought I was introspective but ten minutes here and there is not enough to answer some of these questions |
| 15 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ You will come to me , Tamar , before I come to you . ’ |
| 17 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 18 | Before I come to those passages , it is convenient to refer to such earlier authority as there is . |
| 19 | I mean , when I get up in the morning , it takes me four hours before I come to , you 're always so jolly . |