Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] before [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to be happy with him and for everything to be as it had been before but it did n't seem possible . |
| 2 | By the end of the 1970s there was substantially more conflict between central and local government than there had been before and , by the early 1980s , not only was Labour in control of almost every urban council — even when very weak at national level — but in some places the controlling Labour groups had swung dramatically to the left . |
| 3 | People had been before and |
| 4 | Recent studies , however , have shown that many of them must be later than the landscapes and minor roads they cross ; in any case , they represent the motorways of the Roman period , and most of the country 's land communication network was probably still in the form of lanes and tracks , as it had been before and would be again ( Fig. go ) . |
| 5 | Then he lowered her to the ground and shifted over her , and for a second it was like it had been before and fear touched her , but then his lips came down and brushed her mouth , and she was lost . |