Example sentences of "be before " in BNC.
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| 1 | So now what 's happening is we 're before we 're doing an album we sit down and we pick out a lot of songs we decide right you know we need songs with good story books so the video is near enough planned with the recording of the song and it it 's a lot easier for us and a lot more enjoyable enough a lot more enjoyable . |
| 2 | In a run down on the style of deference he anticipates ( which I note will stifle any critical point from ‘ below decks ’ ) , he talks about his length of tenure and how long it will be before he can ‘ escape back into the real world ’ . |
| 3 | But given the discrimination shown against climbers in the present price structure , how long might it be before you climb at High Rocks by season ticket , or prior arrangement and private fee only ? |
| 4 | However , governments have for a long time been divided over how large a merger must be before it passes out of national hands to Brussels . |
| 5 | We go the long way ; who knows how long it will be before we come this way again ? |
| 6 | He wondered how long it would be before they gave up going to the clearing altogether . |
| 7 | And how ill did you have to be before you died ? |
| 8 | All the alternatives have not been properly considered , and must be before the Institute is committed to an enterprise of this magnitude . |
| 9 | Madame wondered how long it would be before Boy got his hair cropped short so that he looked just like the others . |
| 10 | they say to me , how many of them do there have to be before you think you 've got enough on your list . |
| 11 | Now that some insurance companies are acknowledging the competence of some women drivers by reducing the premium they have to pay , I wonder how long it will be before car salesmen acknowledge the intelligence of women drivers ? |
| 12 | How long would it be before her father came up ? |
| 13 | Once he looked at his watch to see how long it would be before he was relieved . |
| 14 | There are formal procedures for deciding how large a difference in the ds needs to be before we decide to take the interaction seriously , but these are beyond the scope of this book . |
| 15 | ‘ I wondered how long it would be before you young buggers came sniffing around , ’ he said , with a belly laugh , and looked at Yanto . |
| 16 | After supper Uncle Bill would put me , as he always did , in the big double bed in the room next the kitchen , and then he 'd leave the door open , and I 'd lie and listen to him and Bernard yarning , wondering how soon it would be before they got into bed , one on either side of me . |
| 17 | I was wondering how long it would be before Caesar followed Captain 's example and took a bite out of Junior . |
| 18 | The knot in her stomach tightened as she wondered how long it would be before the Cap'n discovered where Midnight was hiding . |
| 19 | It you were filling the bath with both taps on and the plug out , how many minutes would it be before the bath overflowed ? |
| 20 | It is now very difficult to park a car in Funchal as areas are being made into pedestrian streets and the central reservations in Avenida Arriaga are being restored to walking areas , as they used to be before cars took them over . |
| 21 | They had come out of the Hearing without their children , and without knowing how long it might be before they were able to be together again . |
| 22 | In France , a government minister is working on plans to make sexual harassment a criminal offence , so how long can it be before Britain begins a similar move ? |
| 23 | It does n't though , and the photocopiers are good enough to pass official muster , how long can it be before we have the sort of crisis of confidence in our physical currency not seen since the days of the coin-clipping Tudors ? |
| 24 | ‘ How long will it be before they give me the all-clear , do you think ? ’ |
| 25 | long it 's going to be before it 's all over and we can go home . ’ |
| 26 | The adults and children of the family also learnt much of the Gospels and Psalms by heart , for , said Nicholas , ‘ Who knows how or where he shall be before he dies , suppose blind or in prison , and whether travelling on horseback , on foot or by sea , by reciting these passages he would have heavenly food and medicine with him . ’ |
| 27 | If you were going to live your life again , how old would you think you 'd have to be before you felt mature enough to make the decision to get married ? |
| 28 | I hung up the plastic sheet I had left soaking , rolled away those that had dried , scrubbed dried plaster from the table with the special remover , and wondered wearily how much longer it would be before the scent of wet plaster stopped reminding me of Marcus . |
| 29 | Likely what hundreds of others had to do : wonder , and think , and stick their fingers in their ears ; some , on the other hand , might even ask themselves how long it would be before they could try it . |
| 30 | In the final game Waikato took the honours 28–24 , leafing Rugby Canada to wonder just how long it would be before they won for the first time on New Zealand soil . |