Example sentences of "[noun] before i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sapt , ’ I said , ‘ I promise I 'll do one thing for Ruritania before I leave it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Call The Ambulance Before I Hurt Myself ’ ( Nettwerk ) |
| 3 | ‘ Call The Ambulance Before I Hurt Myself ’ ( Nettwerk ) |
| 4 | My father said the 17-horse power would use too much petrol , but it gave me a year 's pleasure before I swopped it for an A30 van . |
| 5 | ‘ No , I need to have words with a friend of mine who 's got a car before I do anything else . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you want to open your eyes before I shoot you ? ’ the Anti-Rex asked . |
| 7 | So I can muck about on that piece before I tackle it in here , so mm . |
| 8 | Or you can say : I 've researched it , I know the idea is right , I 'm going to go in big and I 'm going to have to sustain four or five years of losses before I turn it into a profit . |
| 9 | I have took alopecia before I mean I thought maybe |
| 10 | A fact-finding exercise before I present my case to Council . |
| 11 | It was their own idea , started without help before I began my work as an adviser and I want to try and help them make it a success . |
| 12 | that do explain a little bit about Abbey Life products and also have a copy of as well erm they might find that of help before I give them a call . |
| 13 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 14 | But I hesitated only a second before I accepted his gift excitedly . |
| 15 | Bernard I must tell you , listening to you at the moment is Simon Wigg on one of our other lines erm just a word about Simon before I bring him in . |
| 16 | The mystery of this curious behaviour intrigued me , but it was several days before I discovered its logic from a Prague friend . |
| 17 | ‘ It was one of her customers , in the days before I made her my manager , ’ he said lightly . |
| 18 | " So I was , sir , but I thought my bride had better see something of what 's goin' on in town before I take her back and bury her on the Moor . |
| 19 | I used to work in a bookshop before I had my baby . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Could I see the place before I decide anything else ? ’ |
| 21 | I had it for about two weeks before I told him I 'd got it ! |
| 22 | So how did Tony manage to gain the confidence of the dealers , ‘ It took at least two or three weeks before I took my camera out and that was probably one of the hardest things I did . |
| 23 | Fortunately , however , a few weeks before I found it I attended a lecture given by a Dr Peter Herring , of an oceanographic research institute based in Godalming , on the subject of marine bioluminescence . |
| 24 | I had to clean my erm my new desk out in this room before I bought it with me |
| 25 | Talking about Hamlets , I need another quotation before I begin my travels , for when it comes to research into English I have found that it is rarely possible to predict the end-point of the journey when one starts out , or whether one 's road leads anywhere at all . |
| 26 | Fifty-two years before I met him , Lawrence Beesley had been a second-class passenger on the maiden voyage of the Titanic . |
| 27 | ‘ It was years before I realised it was even common parlance , ’ Kenneth said , still staring out to the loch . |
| 28 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 29 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 30 | It was a few more years before I found mine . |