Example sentences of "before [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some refugees managed to obtain extra ration cards , and at the Harshin and Hartishek camps food repeatedly ran out before everyone had received their ration . |
| 2 | Outside , men in wellingtons excited comment , though it was not long before everyone appreciated the value of waterproof boots . |
| 3 | Anyway , whatever , it got pretty popular for a bit before everyone got bored with it and went back to staring out of the window and hiding Brian Smart ( and his accessories ) in the stock cupboard . |
| 4 | ‘ Viz will only have a certain life before everyone starts to become bored by it . |
| 5 | There is then just time for a breath of fresh air in Sandringham 's grounds before everyone gathers to watch the Queen 's 3pm TV broadcast . |
| 6 | There were a few first ascents , climbed mainly before everyone got bored with the weather and sloped off abroad . |
| 7 | On arrival at the Salters ' Hall the guests , many of whom had travelled by bus from Shropshire especially for the occasion , were greeted by Sir Peter and Lady Gadsden and Mr and Mrs Alan Henn before everyone went in to dinner . |
| 8 | " Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like . |
| 9 | The Minister has now said that it will be another seven years before everyone crossing the channel on holiday will be carried as safely as possible . |
| 10 | The points of choice have to be put to other people and it takes patient consultation before everyone can agree about the management plan for a school in which social , academic , moral and community developments all have their place . |
| 11 | Miss , let's go down before anyone sees us and unlock it before everyone starts coming on down . |
| 12 | It was that young man , declaiming and arguing , whom Charles Lamb was famously to invoke : ‘ Come back into memory , like as thou wert in the day-spring of thy fancies , ’ he wrote in 1820 , ‘ with hope like a fiery column before thee — the dark pillar not yet turned — Samuel Taylor Coleridge — Logician , Metaphysician , Bard ! ’ |
| 13 | It takes about seven to nine hours before nothing but ashes remain , ’ Coetzee notes . |
| 14 | Right , Steve has offered two per cent , whereas before nothing . |
| 15 | But the group is convinced that it is only a matter of time before someone discovers superconducting semiconductors that will work at the economically viable temperatures of liquid nitrogen . |
| 16 | He stood uncertainly , listening , wondering if he should go any further or retreat before someone came along . |
| 17 | The Labour Department can cajole companies to break the ceiling themselves before someone does it for them . |
| 18 | Clarissa tried not to be disarmed , tried to fathom why such self-denigration was being paraded so abjectly before someone who only last week had been a figure of insult and derision . |
| 19 | Or is it gulped down quickly , before someone comes in and points an accusing finger ? |
| 20 | This is particularly true if we can face doing it before they experience death for themselves , before someone in their family , maybe a grandparent , dies . |
| 21 | Seamus should be told to put those right before someone else does the same thing . ’ |
| 22 | The first of these assumes a direct link between what happens before someone behaves in a certain way and their subsequent actions : |
| 23 | Sometimes there would be two hundred cards on the pavement before someone fluked a cover and then all the cards were his and he cleared the deck . |
| 24 | Let it go before someone starts a fund to pay for his defence . |
| 25 | You snatched at it and gobbled it down , before someone else did . |
| 26 | The pupils all began looking round at each other and Mildred knew there was little time before someone recognized her . |
| 27 | ‘ Something will have to be done before someone gets hurt . ’ |
| 28 | Looking at my diary after lunch , I realised it was MKM day and they might sell out before someone could get me a copy ! |
| 29 | She did not know why she should feel such fear , because she felt for her mother not respect , but contempt : and why should she lack courage before someone whose attitudes were to her so transparently , pettily contemptible ? |
| 30 | Really have a go at it before someone else does . |