Example sentences of "[vb past] be before [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOON THEY BECAME VERY MUCH AS IT HAD BEEN BEFORE THEIR separation , except that Gina was a little more violent . |
| 2 | In fact , if anything he was even more remote and distant now than he had been before their weekend , as if he had n't meant to let her get so close and was frantically clawing back space . |
| 3 | John Morton was the Darvel blacksmith , as his father and grandfather had been before him . |
| 4 | If the murderer had been before him , that would be truth . |
| 5 | As my companion informed me , he had held many important posts in Geneva , and was a counsellor , as his father and grandfather had been before him . |
| 6 | The picture had been before her eyes every day of her life , and consequently had no meaning . |
| 7 | Madeleine 's second visit had been before his long slide into melancholy . |
| 8 | In early 1986 , my foot finally healed and I began to train as if I was as fit as I had been before my injury . |