Example sentences of "before i go " in BNC.
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| 1 | And singing is part of that too — I did n't sing before I went into training even though I am musical and play both the piano and the flute . |
| 2 | ‘ — anyway they never saw me , but before I went I heard her say , in a slinky sort of voice . |
| 3 | A lovely letter come from her before I went up north . |
| 4 | I used to have a bike before I went to school . |
| 5 | She gave me an extra pillow , kept me supplied with boiling bottles , brought me Vichy , and my meals on a little round table , actually produced a bottle of alcool camphre & frictioned me & gave me some lime flower tea before I went to sleep . |
| 6 | I had to wash my hair too , before I went out , I looked such a mess . |
| 7 | She helped me dress in my new going-away outfit before I went down to say goodbye to my parents . |
| 8 | It was some years before I went that way again , and something had happened . |
| 9 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 10 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 11 | I 'd never wear anything clingy ; I might wear a camisole , like this , but I 'd put a shirt over it before I went out . |
| 12 | I took them off before I went through the floor into the dock . ’ |
| 13 | I flung open my double-glazed windows before I went to sleep and the first call to prayer of the Muslim day was a strident awakening . |
| 14 | I did n't have much before I went out . |
| 15 | Before I went to sleep I heard Glemnitz talking quite amiably to someone about rugger : |
| 16 | Before I went into hospital , a close friend sent me the ‘ brochure ’ ; from a Quaker I got the pamphlets . |
| 17 | I was changing , of course , before I went to the Meeting House . |
| 18 | Supposing the tumour in my lungs was not entirely new but had started five months ago , before I went onto my diet , took my vitamins or began my visualizations ? |
| 19 | We fixed our first session for the following week , and with a little planning there could be a further session before I went back to Bristol for my first day return since being a resident . |
| 20 | Called to identify the body just before I went off duty . |
| 21 | An event that stands out occurred at Easter 1922 , just before I went into the Boys ' School . |
| 22 | I think you can read all you want and talk to people as often as you want but , in my case , my understanding of Europe just simply did n't exist before I went there . |
| 23 | I was an only child , so I daresay I got among her feet a lot before I went to school . |
| 24 | Just before I went to bed one night , I decided to have a shower . |
| 25 | I was out on the gallery just before I went to bed , looking at all the tapestries and statuettes . |
| 26 | In bed before I went to sleep I fantasized about London and what I 'd do there when the city belonged to me . |
| 27 | ‘ I would have settled for that before I went out . |
| 28 | I did n't think before I went into the recruiting office and became a marine , and I did n't think now . |
| 29 | I had been enrolled as a student at Canterbury before I went to Cambridge ; during the next four years I was visited by missionaries home on leave from Burma , though nothing definite was said . |
| 30 | Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy . |