Example sentences of "even before i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was beginning to get scared even before I 'd seen the film . |
| 2 | I said it was about the photographs , but even before I 'd finished talking , he gave me this message from Marius to … you know … to get lost . ’ |
| 3 | I FELL in love with jazz even before I fell in love with wine — I 'm talking about great , improvised , live jazz and , of course , great bottles of wine ; both darned hard to describe , poignantly ephemeral and profoundly moving experiences . |
| 4 | Oh , I confess to feeling a pang when I first saw David again — I would n't be human if I had n't — but , as I said before , it was over between us a very long time ago , probably even before I fell for Paul if the truth be known . ’ |
| 5 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 6 | Suddenly I felt homesick , even before I left , and quietly raged at the royal bastard 's devious plans . |
| 7 | I had a feeling that this jam session on the back of a truck with Bunny was going to end in tears even before I left the house . |
| 8 | BTW Ive always felt this — even before I became so anti-scum ( in truth only a few years ago ) . |
| 9 | Even before I met him I 'd admired a North Shore picture of his which showed the Kam Highway as it meandered out of the hills and down into Haleiwa , flanked by pineapple plantations and clumps of trees , and in the distance the Pacific , rippling with big waves . |
| 10 | It was getting awkward , even before I met Micky . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Even before I went to Italy and married Ludo I never really knew her . |
| 12 | As a first step to achieving it I made up my mind , even before I went to Eton , to join the Sudan Political Service . |
| 13 | He thought , my God , am I getting over-sensitive about this death even before I 've seen the body ? |
| 14 | ‘ Even before I 've appeared , they skin me alive . ’ |
| 15 | I panicked even before I knew he was murdered . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes I can hear Elizabeth smile , even before I hear the smile changing the shape of her voice . |
| 17 | Even before I got to understand guilt , I used to walk about the house muttering , ‘ You 're a subject for guilt , boy , a subject for guilt . ’ |
| 18 | Yes , that 's right , and in fact I , I was interested for erm even before I got interested in the Muddletonians in the way in which people in the early modern period were fascinated by the idea of Christ returning on earth a second time , on the millennium , and erm I wrote about that experience . |
| 19 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 20 | I was wracked by anxiety and guilt even before I made the decision . |
| 21 | Even before I had reached the counter , the angry voices of two women came to my ears . |
| 22 | Even before I had finished I began to experience a great feeling of freedom and relief . |
| 23 | You will remember that when we last spoke you said the Ramsbum , Gooseneck business was impossible , and that was even before I had met my colleague Blitherdick , the wine waiter who had been on holiday when I arrived . |
| 24 | Even before I had learned to walk my eldest sister used to dump me in an orange box on the pavement next to Granpa 's pitch just to be sure I could start my apprenticeship early . |
| 25 | At gym lessons I needed to organise my changing routine so that I could take off my outdoor shoes , slip my feet immediately into my gym shoes and , even before I tied my gym-shoe laces , put my outdoor shoes into my satchel hoping that they would stay there throughout the lesson . |
| 26 | He says : ‘ I have always been a keen follower of fashion , even before I worked here . |
| 27 | Not that any of my family could be that certain of the exact day on which I was born , on account of the fact that my old man had spent the night in gaol and my mother had died even before I drew breath . |
| 28 | I am thinking of selling up even before I have started . |
| 29 | I stop at my usual vantage point and even before I have switched off the engine I see the otter . |
| 30 | Even before I decide to take the job , I develop naive expectations about what it will be like . |