Example sentences of "before that " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |
| 2 | ‘ Wembley and everything was like a dream , but even before that people treated me as a cult figure . |
| 3 | But before that there are other hurdles : how to reach agreement with a jealous central bureaucracy over control of ‘ union ’ factories on Estonian soil , vital to the central plan . |
| 4 | Before that he was involved in band management and ran an independent record company , New England Records . |
| 5 | But before that they used to raid . |
| 6 | Before that I had never known that human beings could do such things to others , but after that I knew . |
| 7 | ( They were eventually to get another dog — a very lively golden retriever , but before that Warnie had bought himself a boat . ) |
| 8 | Besides , he 'd learned a long time before that you can love a person without loving what they do . |
| 9 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 10 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 11 | Before that the chronological sequence of songs starts with a charming Gounod-like salon piece , and follows the composer 's development , after which the collection is crowned by the best-loved Verlaine settings . |
| 12 | They got the impression that he was well into it but , in fact , it was only about a week before that he 'd started to get interested . |
| 13 | To me he was battering his career , because , before that we all worked as a team . |
| 14 | The last three West Indian wickets were also to fall cheaply , but before that the batsmen had done rather better ; Greenidge and Haynes posted another century partnership and Lloyd and Gomes both reached the nineties . |
| 15 | If the last two decades have been just a trifle one-sided , before that the competition was excellent , with first one side holding sway and then the other , which is as it should be . |
| 16 | Margaret Thatcher had kept her word given over five years before that I would not lose out by my enforced move to Transport and I was now in charge of the biggest spender and largest employer in Whitehall . |
| 17 | Philip had n't set eyes on him before that he was aware of . |
| 18 | Apparently we had made so much noise when we returned separately the night before that we had wakened everyone and we were being thrown out . |
| 19 | Many , probably the great majority of the population , were convinced by 1939 if not before that the Jews had been a harmful influence in German society , and that it would be better if those still remaining left ( or were forced to leave ) as soon as possible . |
| 20 | About five weeks before that I had come home in my first university term , and got undressed for my bath in front of the bathroom mirror . |
| 21 | ‘ I was always the top broker at any firm I worked for on Wall Street and before that I sold memberships at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 22 | The success of the new Continental R , and before that the Bentley Turbo , shows that if it can make the sort of car that new customers approve of , it should still be able to find 3,000 buyers a year around the world . |
| 23 | Oh , before that she gave him strict injunctions to be sure to kill Horrible or he would destroy them all , which was duly done . |
| 24 | Royston Lambert captured this mood in a seventeen-year-old boy talking about his family and school : ‘ They have been coming here since the seventeenth century , I think , although what they did before that I ca n't imagine , had Tutors I suppose . |
| 25 | It will have been gathered from what has gone before that the non-gonococcal infections are considerably less easy both to diagnose and to treat than gonorrhoea itself . |
| 26 | Before that we played in America during the same week as the Masters at Hattisburg , Mississippi , Nick had four rounds of 67 and finished second . |
| 27 | ‘ Respiratory failure at 11.30 p.m. ’ she said ( why did women have to be so scrupulously exact as to detail ? ) ‘ and before that he could n't swallow . |
| 28 | Before that it was a local . |
| 29 | ‘ I told you before that he 's throwing your plans overboard one by one . |
| 30 | Not every day , nor as often as I would wish , but I took my middle daughter to see it yesterday and we hugged it together , and two days before that I hugged it with a friend . |