Example sentences of "there before " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shelter that Jenny had found for me was in Camden Town , not too far away , so in order not to arrive there before it got going for the evening , I dawdled a little , window-shopping . |
| 2 | It might seem churlish to ask for flavour as well as the chance to save the planet , but it used to be there before the planet needed saving . |
| 3 | Somehow I must get up the Library steps , for if I can get in there before they reach me , they wo n't be able to duff me in . |
| 4 | Time to get out of there before she was roped in to help , she thought , and sneaked out of the main doors into the deluge that was still cascading down . |
| 5 | Better get over there before the police do . ’ |
| 6 | Having gone , it was clear that , if it reached there before any kind of serious and sensible peace proposal could be offered , … the task force then had to do something . |
| 7 | If the sergeant got there before you and did n't find you , he would tap with his signalling stick and it goes for miles in the middle of the night — give him a little tinkle , and you walk towards one another . |
| 8 | 1983 ) , and legislation on ‘ rate-capping ’ was enacted in England in 1984 , enabling central government to set a maximum rate level for particular councils — just as later ( in 1988/9 ) the community charge ( popularly known as the poll tax ) and the uniform business rate were introduced there before the experiment was extended to England and Wales . |
| 9 | Robert III may have been born in Dundonald Castle and it is certain that he spent much of his life there before he became king . |
| 10 | Benstede had been there before Alexander died and Corbett , so Wishart 's spies told him , was not sent by the King but the Chancellor of England , that wily old fox , Robert Burnell . |
| 11 | ‘ Or we 'll not get there before the rain comes . ’ |
| 12 | Poachers could have been there before you and creamed off some of the rabbits , or there may have been a more innocent intrusion by a courting couple on the site . |
| 13 | If you get there before I do |
| 14 | ‘ We used to find that people picking up a 2D spreadsheet from another audit would spend ages trying to print it out and find out what was in there before they could start work . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I ran a couple of passengers there before the dickheads bought the island . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've got to get our bird out of there before the balloon goes up . |
| 17 | There were bulletholes in the ceiling — which might have been there before the ‘ pomps checked in and the queensize bed was a tangle of ugly tie-died sheets and surplus clothing . |
| 18 | The tyrant fled there before he was executed during the revolution of December 1989 . |
| 19 | ‘ Could you please look around your yard/station/siding to see if it is there before we have to cancel trains because of lack of locomotives . ’ |
| 20 | At least it had a church there before they built one in Anani . |
| 21 | That means it was there before Harry fell . |
| 22 | I 'll get over there before they appoint another Substitute to look into it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We 're not at a checkpoint at the moment , ’ says Spill , ‘ but the P5 will be there before we reach the next one … and many people are waiting for the P5 before deciding whether to go to the R4000 . |
| 24 | The good news is that you can usually tell which type of value a keyname experts by looking at the value that is already there before you start . |
| 25 | Armed only with a nice , new PPL you walk cautiously into the dark , open space and there before you lies the treasure ! |
| 26 | The walls of our imprisonment were there before we appeared on the scene , but they are ever rebuilt by ourselves . |
| 27 | Chimps make new nests every night , and to keep track of them , you have to be there before they rise , and keep up with them until they settle down for the night . |
| 28 | Also the wood formed a very strange texture , it is very rough in patches and there are lots of tiny holes in the wood where worms had tunnelled there before it was broken off . |
| 29 | He likes to be one step ahead of the pack , getting there before others do . |
| 30 | We had a drink out there before we got stuck into that amazing menu . |