Example sentences of "[noun sg] before [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | What Scott lacked above all , however , was any visible grasp of the reports and councils , White Papers and Green Papers , which have reconnoitred this terrain before and illuminated the thorny issues at the heart of science policy . |
| 2 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 3 | The tug-master had never , of course , towed a large sailing vessel before and had no experience of the windward effect of three tall masts in a gale . |
| 4 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 5 | He had not been in trouble before and acted totally out of character . |
| 6 | But more often than not , whenever they were under the same roof together , he shared her bed and , now that her initial awkwardness had abated — for she had never seen a naked human being of either sex before and had always been discouraged from looking too closely at herself — he made love to her with a straightforward vigour she found attractive . |
| 7 | " Now let me see myself in a glass , " Sara said eventually , and when one was brought gave a gasp of surprise , because she had not worn the high collar before or had her hair braided , and although these strange garments were a little uncomfortable and restricting she could n't help admiring the slashed sleeves , the low , square neck and the wonderful wide skirt that swept the stone floor . |
| 8 | This had not happened on such a scale before and encouraged MacMillan to stage another biographical work , Isadora , which followed the pattern of his earlier Anastasia . |
| 9 | He had never been in hospital before and consulted his General Practitioner infrequently . |
| 10 | Mr Trelawney had been to sea before and knew enough to be useful , and one of the men , Israel Hands , was a careful and experienced seaman who was able to help with almost anything . |
| 11 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 12 | The young woman had visited both the museum and the castle before and had looked down from their heights onto the epidemic of streets below , between the top of the hill and the broad curve of the Bay . |
| 13 | But he 'd stood up well to that first interview , hindered rather than helped by the presence of his solicitor , who had never seen his client before and had made it painfully apparent that he would prefer never to see him again . |