Example sentences of "before i went [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposing the tumour in my lungs was not entirely new but had started five months ago , before I went onto my diet , took my vitamins or began my visualizations ? |
| 2 | I used to have a bike before I went to school . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( 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 . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Before I went to sleep I heard Glemnitz talking quite amiably to someone about rugger : |
| 8 | I was changing , of course , before I went to the Meeting House . |
| 9 | I was an only child , so I daresay I got among her feet a lot before I went to school . |
| 10 | Just before I went to bed one night , I decided to have a shower . |
| 11 | I was out on the gallery just before I went to bed , looking at all the tapestries and statuettes . |
| 12 | In bed before I went to sleep I fantasized about London and what I 'd do there when the city belonged to me . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then I went skipping round to the cottage to see Miss Louise before I went to school . |
| 15 | ‘ Even before I went to Italy and married Ludo I never really knew her . |
| 16 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 17 | One night before I went to bed I asked her . |
| 18 | I mainly used to chase it in me mate 's house , but sometimes when I got home , I 'd have a toot before I went to bed . |
| 19 | Dinner came ; for me the meal was a very hasty one , and before I went to bed that night I had finished reading the manuscript . |
| 20 | That night , the night before I went to David Rosen 's office to hear Francis 's will , I was woken by a dream . |
| 21 | Just before I went to bed , we heard the sound of a big gun on the marshes . |
| 22 | Before I went to Miss Havisham 's and met Estella , I had always wanted to be apprenticed to Joe , and I had always been happy at home , in spite of my sister 's scolding . |
| 23 | But before I went to Luggnagg , an official I had met in Lagado persuaded me to visit the small island of Glubbdubdrib . |
| 24 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |
| 25 | It was dark and windy outside , and before I went to sleep I could hear a dog growling in the distance . |
| 26 | ‘ Do you realize it 's two years , six months and six days since I saw you on to a train — possibly this very one — the day before I went to America ? |
| 27 | His speech was delivered by means of fingerspelling ( the mode adopted by all speakers who were each limited to ten minutes ) : Before I went to America I was rather one-sided , and opposed the teaching of speech too much ; but after entering the celebrated college at Washington , I saw that not only could speech be taught with much success , but that those educated on the combined system spoke better than those educated on the so-called pure oral method . |
| 28 | ‘ When I went to school , I were n't above eight or nine year old and I used to have to go hawking milk , as I told you , before I went to school ; and then I used to take the empty cans to school , bring them home at dinner-time . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd been an assistant stage manager and a deputy stage manager at the Northcott Theatre , Exeter , before I went to drama school . |
| 30 | And er , and that was , er go and did this before I went to school . |