Example sentences of "before we [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long before we got to Moscow everything was ‘ off ’ the already limited menu . |
| 2 | I was quite sick on the train before we got to Euston , and have not liked long train journeys since . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew it was a mistake before we got to Fez . |
| 4 | Before we got to the first tee I could see that Jack was already on edge — or more on edge , rather , because a hangover had already eaten into his small reserves of patience and equanimity . |
| 5 | They threw us out of China before we got to Tibet . ’ |
| 6 | Before we got to his office he 'd persuaded Kim and Eddie ( with a fistful of notes ) to come with him and start another party at his local wine-bar after he 'd ‘ cleared his desk ’ . |
| 7 | I came in an ambulance with a patient — I had to do an emergency tracheotomy before we got to hospital . ’ |
| 8 | I find found that absolutely incredible and I thought it was bizarre to say the least , the procedure we had to go through the other er evening erm with two hours of acrimonious debate er a break while you consulted er the officers before we got to some er sensible way forward which is now incorporated in this amendment er to spend a hundred thousand pounds on actually trying to trace . |
| 9 | I walked up to him , me and Shelley , me and Shelley give it crossing the road to go to him , me and Shelley as we 're walking through he crossed the road before we got to him . |
| 10 | In fact we had made three other variations on the theme before we came to making this piece so there was really no excuse for getting it wrong , but we did . |
| 11 | So she said what it was , and then looking through it , it actually certainly we could have done with a fle I could have looked at the the flexible thing before we came to the meeting , because it |
| 12 | He came to see me in our hotel the night before we came to this country , and … |
| 13 | No before we came to be looking down here . |
| 14 | My parents often mentioned their remorse , I was speaking so well before we went to the Russian Orthodox Easter Service . |
| 15 | ‘ Graham took second place at Watkins Glen before we went to South Africa for the last race . |
| 16 | When we were children , before we went to school , |
| 17 | Mummy often read to us before we went to bed , ‘ William ’ stories were our favourite and hers . |
| 18 | We had a gas copper , which was lit before we went to school . |
| 19 | Every morning before we went to school , we all had to take a bucket appropriate to our size and run a relay from the communal tap to the barrels until they were full . |
| 20 | Before we went to bed we took the calf down to the stable to its mother . |
| 21 | I said no , it was just that before we went to bed last night , Aunt Kit had decided to look for her money . |
| 22 | CO-HOSTS Australia were one of only two countries not to have finalised their World Cup line-up before we went to press . |
| 23 | St Richards was fun and strict , with not enough to eat and high academic standards ; I developed a crush on the assistant matron who had a phenomenally large chest ; I liked her because she used to sit on the ends of our beds and talk to us before we went to sleep . |
| 24 | And , of course , when we had a shooting-party , it was more like midnight before we went to bed . |
| 25 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 26 | Sweetheart , I told Mother I was falling in love with you long before we went to the island . |
| 27 | Well I tried to tidy it up before we went to school and they were flinging it all out again and there just was n't time ! |
| 28 | before we went to bed yeah . |
| 29 | And erm it was our turn to feed them before we went to the farm every morning you see . |
| 30 | Tony was well briefed before we descended to the bowels of the earth . |