Example sentences of "was before " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That was before the shrimp dish reached the dining-room ’ , said Milsom , revealing that he already knew a great deal about the evening . |
| 2 | One source said the general was closely scrutinising the list of telephone calls of support he received from senior officials during the coup to see who called , and whether it was before the rebellion was known to have failed . |
| 3 | All this was before he became a jazz legend , writing such hits as ‘ Flat Foot Floogie ’ and appearing in films like Hellzapoppin . |
| 4 | No money , no sight : the way it was before the National Health Service came to Wallsend . |
| 5 | It was before Spain had joined the Common Market and United Biscuits ' efforts to acquire a suitable company in one of the EEC countries had come to nought . |
| 6 | ‘ Her first professional job was before I was born , and she has taught me a lot . ’ |
| 7 | B : That was before I was cognisant of the fact that my Wakefield caucus would only have one in over my dead body . |
| 8 | His proud boast is that ‘ the same principles which at first lead to scepticism , pursued to a certain point , bring men back to common sense ’ , and that rather than being a purveyor of wild and new paradoxes , he has ‘ unite[d] and place[d] in a clearer light that truth , which was before shared between the vulgar and the philosophers ’ . |
| 9 | That was before he became too ill even to be propped . |
| 10 | One day the settee is opposite the door , the next it is where the telly was before it was swapped round with the nest of tables . |
| 11 | ‘ That was before the body was discovered ? ’ |
| 12 | That was before she got cross with me about her underclothes . ’ |
| 13 | That was before they found the patches of damp on their own kitchen and bathroom ceilings , which , when touched with a finger , smelled unmistakably of cat-piss . |
| 14 | It was before he wed her , anyway . |
| 15 | That was before John had moved in with them ; he and Chrimes happened to call there that morning on some business errand before the detective had arrived , and the door was opened by Herbert in his dressing gown , begging them to hurry away again in case their presence spoilt the evidence . |
| 16 | He then paid tribute to the Alresford Society , pointing out that when they started pushing for environmental improvements in the 1970s , it was before conservation had come into fashion . |
| 17 | But that was before she took her baby brother to Wickham Common . |
| 18 | Now it becomes a little clearer why , in a young healthy child where ‘ disease ’ serves its function in its most simple and natural form , it has been observed that the child is more well after an acute ailment has resolved than he was before it started . |
| 19 | Peter and Paul will want to remember their Mummy as she was before she got ill , and how much she loved and cared about them when they were younger , even if the illness makes here different . |
| 20 | This was before the Clean Air Act was passed and London smogs had to be breathed to be believed , but all the way up eastern England it was pretty bad . |
| 21 | That was before they met Glenda . |
| 22 | And that was before the skull had been cleaned . |
| 23 | Alright , so some high-powered committees have dismissed the idea of death rays , but that was before Star Wars showed that it can be done . |
| 24 | It is not illegal to carry out development without permission but the planning authority ( and only they ) can , if they so wish , take action to put the position back physically to what it was before the development took place . |
| 25 | That was before we could afford a ‘ better house ’ , before Mum got a job , before we moved to Exeter . |
| 26 | In a few years I 'd be just like mammy , cleaning for toffs ; and I 'd have weans and it 'd be too late then , and my man 'd be just like daddy was before he died , working a' week and getting drunk on Friday nights and a' day Saturdays . ’ |
| 27 | Her face still , as it sometimes was before she began to cry . |
| 28 | This was before I was playing with Chet and everything , so that 's all it really needed , and I 've just tried to keep up since then . |
| 29 | The last light he saw was before the large rectangular lid of the boot came down on him . |
| 30 | This was before my parents were married , so I think my mother is guessing . |