Example sentences of "before that [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before that she was a divisional director in Berkshire and assistant director in Reading County Borough . |
| 2 | Before that he was involved in band management and ran an independent record company , New England Records . |
| 3 | Philip had n't set eyes on him before that he was aware of . |
| 4 | I only wish I 'd known before that he was so ill . |
| 5 | ‘ Since he became Prime Minister , Mr Major comes in about once a year but before that he was more of a regular . |
| 6 | Before that he was suspended from the national team for a year after a clash with coach Henri Michel , punished for fighting with team-mates at Auxerre and Montpelier and fined for throwing his shirt to the ground at Marseille when substituted . |
| 7 | ‘ You did n't say before that he was armed . ’ |
| 8 | Before that he was with Roger Lascelles , where he had experience of working with travel publisher Lonely Planet . |
| 9 | He had realised some time before that he was becoming more and more attracted to her . |
| 10 | Erm , before that he was the northern sales rep. for a large controls company , he is an amateur , erm , he lives with his wife and eighteen month old son and his wife 's expecting another child next month . |
| 11 | Before that he was a successful history and art student at the De Montfort University in Leicester . |
| 12 | Before that he was the co-ordinator of the Trade Union Studies Information Unit in Newcastle . |
| 13 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |
| 14 | Before that I was Henry VIII — it was great , apart from a bit of aggro with the wives . |
| 15 | I told you once before that I was selfish . |
| 16 | For two years previous to the war I had been painting ; before that I was a school master teaching drawing and painting . |
| 17 | ‘ Before that I was modelling clothes for some of the best fashion-houses in London — and in Paris too , sometimes . ’ |
| 18 | There were times when I tried to tell him before that I was just sleeping with him because he wanted to sleep with me , but he 's a person who can get easily upset , and I did n't want to hurt him . |
| 19 | She must have realised some years before that I was n't headed in the direction of St Margaret 's , Westminster , but she had still intended the occasion to glitter , a bright milestone in our uneventful lives . |
| 20 | Before that I was erm living with some fr friends in Liverpool . |
| 21 | And before that I was m back in Nottingham . |
| 22 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 23 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 24 | Er then of course er petrol , before that I was in the , before I started the work we used to go out delivering petrol and petrol was all done in tins , two gallon tins . |
| 25 | Before that I was involved in women 's groups in Ireland and since I 've come here I 've been involved in the Women in Ireland group in London . |
| 26 | My father had told me years before that I was born under the starsign of the Dog because Sirius was overhead at the time . |
| 27 | How can you now suddenly decide that this is the truth when you were so convinced before that I was guilty of every form of unscrupulous dealing possible ? ’ |
| 28 | It 's not something I particularly thought an awful lot of until I came on crime prevention , because before that I was in police uniform with marked cars with the radio , although half the time in Harlow , the radios do n't work cos we 're getting . |
| 29 | Before that it was a local . |
| 30 | ‘ Before that it was the great cup years of the early fifties but it 's all too long ago . |