Example sentences of "before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! ’ |
| 2 | Before I saw you , and the world 's large tongue |
| 3 | And singing is part of that too — I did n't sing before I went into training even though I am musical and play both the piano and the flute . |
| 4 | Well yes , but let me say that I gave up going to auditions well before I became well known through The History Man , on television . |
| 5 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 6 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 7 | ‘ — anyway they never saw me , but before I went I heard her say , in a slinky sort of voice . |
| 8 | ‘ I was unemployed for nearly two years before I came here , I do know what it 's like . |
| 9 | My illness kept me out of action for a fortnight so it was fully three weeks after the demise of my job before I finally went down to my local Department of Employment offices and ‘ signed on ’ . |
| 10 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll need to check out first and then dump some things at Paddington before I go . ’ |
| 12 | But before I go , I wanted you to understand what 's happened to me . |
| 13 | As promised , one of the project workers gave me an early shake and I had time enough for a coffee before I needed to set off to meet Jenny . |
| 14 | ‘ Could I see the place before I decide anything else ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No , I need to have words with a friend of mine who 's got a car before I do anything else . |
| 16 | At the Police Staff College shortly before I was offered the scholarship to university , I had listened as lists of degrees obtained by previous scholars were read out . |
| 17 | He sent me a memorandum directing me to inform him in future before I write to any newspaper periodical on matters appertaining to the force . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll eat before I come . |
| 19 | Why put my head into the bear 's jaws before I have to ? |
| 20 | ‘ He ran off before I asked . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I thought I 'd wait until I made a go of it before I told you . |
| 22 | He is not to walk out on me before I run out of steam . |
| 23 | Sadly he died shortly afterwards and for many reasons it was some months before I used the disc . |
| 24 | ‘ I decided it was time to say goodbye , but before I could give notice Sam Hall , the Benskin 's area manager , phoned me to say the company was going to turn the Harrow into a managed house . |
| 25 | I weighed 10 stone before I was nine months old ; by 14 months I was 15 stone and six feet tall standing on my back legs . |
| 26 | The grammar schools once provided the necessary culture of learning , as well as specific instruction , for students from under privileged homes , as we see in Judith Grossman 's Her Own Terms , or Anthony Burgess 's autobiographical recollection of reading English at Manchester University in the late thirties ( some twenty years before I started teaching there myself ) . |
| 27 | Before I joined the party 46 years ago , there was n't even a paved road from Lublin to Warsaw . ’ |
| 28 | Happily Lendl 's humour resurfaced when he was asked what difference marriage had made : ‘ Before I could do everything I wanted to do , now I have to ask . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ In fact , ’ Mr Sedgemore said ‘ his actual words were : ‘ Grass will grow on my hands before I consider their re-employment ’ . ' |
| 30 | ‘ I figured I 'd better get started before I ended up like Brahms or something , ’ he deadpans in a voice that betrays his Welsh origins ( he was born in 1942 in Garnant ) rather than the last 25 years living in New York . |