Example sentences of "before this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before this snarl about real life , he has betrayed his redhead to the police , by swallowing a lying excuse of hers concerning a subversive brother . |
| 2 | He glared at Mr Catlett , who quailed before this rare intimidation from a man who was normally jovial and kind . |
| 3 | Leonard was aware of Layton before this , of course . |
| 4 | A number of the 150 people who have contacted Age Concern England about the debt they face took up their scheme before this date and will not be able to obtain compensation even if they are granted an award through arbitration or private legal action . |
| 5 | Before this the slowmoving dancers in their wide spreading tutus and veiled arms have hidden it from view . |
| 6 | The trimpot used to set the first stage gain , should be set at maximum resistance and the multi-turn zero offset trimpot to the centre of its range before this check . |
| 7 | Three years before this , Yale University Press had brought out in a very handsome volume called Make It New seven essays representing Pound 's criticism at its most scholarly , on such recondite topics as Cavalcanti , and Elizabethan Classicists , and early translations of Homer . |
| 8 | Clearly , the gearbox remained the Achilles ' heel for the McLaren-Honda and it will doubtless cause Senna one or two anxious moments before this season ends in Adelaide on 5 November . |
| 9 | The document shows that , allowing for deficits carried forward to this year and other factors , and before this year 's savings , Bloomsbury has to save £8m to balance its budget , Lewisham £6.6m , Riverside £3.1m , Wandsworth £2.8m , Hampstead £1.4m , West Lambeth £1.5m , with the rest , bar Greenwich , facing forecast deficits of at least £1m . |
| 10 | The interview took place before this weekend 's demonstrations . |
| 11 | Before this year , Ayodhya , a community of 30,000 Hindus and 2,000 Muslims , had never witnessed a religious clash . |
| 12 | In these lonely hours , sitting in Brick Lane in the East End or Lamb Lane in Bradford , vivid memories come flooding in from the past , from the life before this semi-existence . |
| 13 | The Pastoral Measure defines the interested parties , including the local planning authority , who must be consulted before this stage is reached . |
| 14 | When these offers were received , it was apparent that the lowest tender considerably exceeded the cost acceptable to the Housing Corporation , who insisted that savings of £170,000 should be made before this lowest price could be accepted . |
| 15 | Sunderland should have scored just before this . |
| 16 | SUSPECTED Sikh terrorists yesterday shot dead 19 students and seriously wounded several others in Patiala , Punjab , raising fears of a fresh extremist offensive in the north Indian state before this month 's parliamentary polls . |
| 17 | THE Tranmere Rovers players were so high on good publicity before this match that their manager , John King , said he would have to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 18 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 19 | Before this time , vestiges of England 's Tudor past were still evident , and some time afterwards the style grew tired , and the proportions lost their perfection . |
| 20 | Artefacts made of brass before the Roman period ( that is , before the end of the first millennium BC ) are rare , although there are numerous historical references to oreichalcum before this . |
| 21 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 22 | She 'd worn some of my clothes before this . ’ |
| 23 | He would unquestionably have recommended that her mother be given a hospital bed , and long before this . |
| 24 | Even before this the six villages which had by long established custom sent representatives to the Salcey swanimotes were increased to forty-two , by an arbitrary re-imposition of the medieval bounds . |
| 25 | Some banks ' machines , particularly in Spain , may levy a small charge but a warning should always appear on screen before this is deducted . |
| 26 | ‘ Before this election , Chris Patten sent a note to departments about campaign plans and how Ministers would be given a theme every day . |
| 27 | Mr Boesky , who served 22 months in jail and paid a $100m fine to settle insider trading charges , told a court his request for $20,000 a week was ‘ embarrassing and painful ’ and he was ‘ humbled to come before this court ’ for ‘ interim financial support . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Do you know , before this I went out and bought Tesco 's own-brand baked beans to live on for the next month , ’ she remarked , rather unconvincingly . |
| 29 | There had been many inclined plane lifts before this one , but none having such complex features , and capable of hauling fully loaded barges still afloat in full tanks . |
| 30 | Before this it was known as Cunes Mill . |