Example sentences of "before they have [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was some time before they had Liam fit to drive the cart home . |
| 2 | and erm you 're looking , you 're , let's say you turn up looking at a screen , you 're actually standing up like they used to do in the old days before they had radar |
| 3 | Mr Rodney Bennington , an individual protestor , of Welbury , near Northallerton , accused the NGC of jumping the gun by signing connection agreements with Enron and then with Scottish generators before they had permission to transmit the power . |
| 4 | Yes , they had been in love once , that was before they had children . |
| 5 | But even before they had Charlotte knew what they would find . |
| 6 | The people had never heard preaching like this before , and so they embraced the teaching before they had time to become used to it and ‘ Gospel-hardened ’ as had happened to the people of Bridgnorth . |
| 7 | Before they had time to say a word , she had rushed across the room , enveloped Dimity in a bear-hug and kissed her soundly on each cheek . |
| 8 | First he attacked the tents of that Moorish Queen the Negress , who lay nearest to the city ; and this onset was so sudden , that they killed full a hundred and fifty Moors before they had time to take arms or go to horse . |
| 9 | When , with colleagues in the Department of Social Administration , I interviewed members of the divorcing population , they argued passionately that divorce was too easy ( or too difficult ) ; that everything was rushed through before they had time to think ( or that it dragged on interminably ) ; and that divorce should be morally neutral ( or that there should be an inquest in which every detail of their spouse 's despicable conduct was exposed to public view ) . |
| 10 | Before they had time to react , the car mounted the kerb and smashed into them . |
| 11 | And then he added , ‘ I was talking to one of Big Joe 's bouncers and it was his opinion that she got wind of what was to happen , before they had time to give her a dose , likely . |
| 12 | They 'd get so much grain and they 'd eat it so quickly that it swelled out before they had time to digest it . |
| 13 | On top of that there could be time spent tutoring individual pupils with special needs before they had time to think of preparation for the next day . |
| 14 | And he 's gunning for revenge after the 2–2 draw at Windsor last year , which dented the hopes of Northern Ireland before they had time to begin . |
| 15 | They 're usually on the Pill before they have abortions . |
| 16 | It has been possible to isolate neutral bis and tris ( 1,3,2,4-dithiadiazoles ) by reducing their corresponding salts ; the neutral products precipitating before they have time to rearrange . |
| 17 | Then we 'll hurry to the room where the King is , and kill Detchard and Bersonin before they have time to kill the King . ’ |
| 18 | There is considerable evidence from psycholinguistic experiments that people can and do make decisions about a word 's identity before they have access to its complete phonological specification . |