Example sentences of "[adv] before we [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We galloped along the sand , and I knew what had happened long before we reached the rocks where the King lay . |
| 2 | Then we could have some tea together before we catch the train . |
| 3 | All I say is , if we 're gon na pare it down , let's pare it down before we start the job and put in the price it will cost . |
| 4 | So before we examine the debate in more detail let us define our terms . |
| 5 | You see , I refused to go through with the wedding unless he promised to hand this over before we left the reception . ’ |
| 6 | And let me just before we take the music remind you of er the front page of the daily mirror today . |
| 7 | Now , just before we take the break , the results of last week 's Games Test competition . |
| 8 | The , the bright city lights that 's not what makes people uproot their , uproot their lives and go and move somewhere else , they are after economic betterment and that 's the driving force er behind migration so just before we leave the non economic factors what might they be ? |
| 9 | Because it was before just before we moved the offices but it 's kicking around somewhere in an envelope with my name on the front of it but where I would n't know . |
| 10 | ‘ I sent Jean home before we crossed the river . |
| 11 | We had n't gone far before we spied the punt entangled in the branches of a willow which had collapsed into the stream . |
| 12 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 13 | Now before we step the mast , we need to turn the boat more or less into the wind and that 's a good chance for us to start thinking about where the wind 's coming from . |
| 14 | I ease a few points ahead , Martin puts in a break of 12 , I confidently reply with one of 13 , and even before we reach the colours Martin is beginning to display the McEnroic aspect of his game that always encourages opponents . |
| 15 | In a sense , the hype answered that question even before we saw the programme . |
| 16 | All of these aspects of the production of the text affect its meaning , both from the point of view of the author 's intention and of the most probable interpretation , even before we consider the wider social situations in which it may be encountered . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Although all of us are deeply concerned to know precisely what happened in East Timor , will she bear it in mind that , since Indonesia took over East Timor a few years ago , there has been considerable development of the infrastructure in that country , and that , although no one condones that massacre , we must know what has been going on before we adopt the language that we heard from the Labour party ? |
| 19 | It will probably be some months yet before we get the final government reaction to our proposals . |
| 20 | Now , before we , again before we start the actual meeting proper , I 've invited Carol along , you 'll see that we 've got er , oh sorry , for those who do n't know Carol . |