Example sentences of "be [adv] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have n't been down before I would strongly suggest this Sunday night at five thirty . |
| 2 | You put out the word and it would n't have been long before you knew Vecchi was out of sight . |
| 3 | ‘ At this stage we will have to wait and see what state they are in before we make a decision . ’ |
| 4 | It must have been just before Boswell picked her up . |
| 5 | It must have been just before I left home in November . |
| 6 | I found out who they are just before I left to see you . |
| 7 | then I went , I went into town a bit later on , come down Manstral Road and there was like a load of traffic there and I got to where the traffic lights are just before you get to the big turning at Manstral Road |
| 8 | So I said well please make sure you 're in before you 're to go up on the bus . |
| 9 | ‘ Just as well you 're away before father comes in ; he likes to gossip . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We go after the kids are safely in school , we 're back before they come out . |
| 11 | He had never examined a man before : whenever they had been near before he had been too busy looking for an escape route . |
| 12 | I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference . |
| 13 | At the wedding , everyone but everyone came up to me to say , ‘ It wo n't be long before it 's your turn too , ’ or something similar , and each time somebody said it , I grew increasingly resentful . |
| 14 | Pam Nelson may not yet be a household name but if this young American progresses in the same manner as previous Pilkington Glass U.21 Champions Steffi Graf , Arantxa Sanchez , Jana Novotna and Manuela Maleeva , then it will not be long before her name appears in the latter stages of the world 's leading tournaments . |
| 15 | She is to me and many others , the best tennis player in the world today , even if she is No 2 it wo n't be long before she is back on top where she belongs . |
| 16 | It will not be long before every party conference is treated to its spokesman 's version of European monetary union , along with motherhood , apple pie — and , no doubt , local government finance . |
| 17 | It may not be long before her view is upheld . |
| 18 | Moreover , it will not be long before common-or-garden programs can vary the weight and shape of letters instantaneously , as well as setting them on the page . |
| 19 | I 'm sure it wo n't be long before she is on the most popular chat shows , telling us of commissions she has undertaken and regaling us with tales of her life when she was actress Delia Abraham , co-starring in the TV version of Nell Dunn 's Up The Junction , and appearing in rep alongside Kate O'Mara . |
| 20 | ‘ It wo n't be long before I set out on my expedition and I do n't think he 'll be fit to run away from me . ’ |
| 21 | This is what these ‘ trivial errors ’ as you call them really signify and if you do not heed them , it will not be long before your father commits an error of major proportions . ’ |
| 22 | I could see , moreover , that if I were quickly to go outside and conceal my person behind the large rhododendron bush beside the path , it would not be long before Mr Cardinal came by . |
| 23 | It could not be long before the football emperor was in truly royal circles He met King George V , Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales , and often discussed points of play with the King during Cup finals . |
| 24 | His twin devotions to Quantock solitude and the company of Tom Poole brought not only physical separation from the Lime Street cottage , but a widening emotional distance from his forthright , practical , and hard-pressed wife : it would not be long before the autumn happiness of their Clevedon days was a distant memory . |
| 25 | We played badminton and sang folk songs , but we knew as we wept and prayed with refugees from Czechoslovakia that it would not be long before we were asked to make even the supreme sacrifice to stop , if we could , the Nazi menace . |
| 26 | Yet the first indications that London was soon to show explosive growth were already present , and it did not need much foresight to see that it would not be long before any green-field site chosen near London for the location of the College would soon be engulfed in bricks and mortar , which would sweep away hay- and grazing-fields , market gardens and brickfields alike . |
| 27 | I should think it will not be long before the laboratory is turned into a commercial outfit . |
| 28 | Given the potential biomass residues , in the Third World , it must not be long before gasifiers are produced which are not constrained by the current composition of fuel . |
| 29 | Martha , her youngest , was being courted by Sam Baldwin , the youngest son of the family at Cauldron Mill ; although the lad had not yet spoken to Jonadab , Annie knew it would not be long before he asked for their daughter as his bride . |
| 30 | It seemed as if it would not be long before a treatment was found for every disease . |