Example sentences of "before i [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before I reveal to the distinguished company gathered here this morning some of Councillor good works , I feel it incumbent upon me and appropriate to pay tribute to Councillor , our Lord Mayor , who died in office in April and I offer my sincere condolences to Mrs from my party and the Council . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 'd never done weights before I came to Chelsea , and my wife gives me better things to eat than bananas . |
| 3 | ‘ And I had to lose a good , good woman before I came to my senses . |
| 4 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 5 | ‘ The fire had been lit before I came to the office . |
| 6 | . Sir I am the present overseer but these things was before I came to the Parish . |
| 7 | A lot A lot of well quite a few people and I mean th have been in the flats way before I came to . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's funny , everybody could see me before I came to Spain . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | I refer to Burnley , whose council I led before I came to the House . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | I used to have a bike before I went to school . |
| 17 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 18 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 19 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 20 | I flung open my double-glazed windows before I went to sleep and the first call to prayer of the Muslim day was a strident awakening . |
| 21 | Before I went to sleep I heard Glemnitz talking quite amiably to someone about rugger : |
| 22 | I was changing , of course , before I went to the Meeting House . |
| 23 | I was an only child , so I daresay I got among her feet a lot before I went to school . |
| 24 | Just before I went to bed one night , I decided to have a shower . |
| 25 | I was out on the gallery just before I went to bed , looking at all the tapestries and statuettes . |
| 26 | In bed before I went to sleep I fantasized about London and what I 'd do there when the city belonged to me . |
| 27 | I had been enrolled as a student at Canterbury before I went to Cambridge ; during the next four years I was visited by missionaries home on leave from Burma , though nothing definite was said . |
| 28 | Then I went skipping round to the cottage to see Miss Louise before I went to school . |
| 29 | ‘ Even before I went to Italy and married Ludo I never really knew her . |
| 30 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |