Example sentences of "but before that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before that there are other hurdles : how to reach agreement with a jealous central bureaucracy over control of ‘ union ’ factories on Estonian soil , vital to the central plan . |
| 2 | But before that they used to raid . |
| 3 | ( They were eventually to get another dog — a very lively golden retriever , but before that Warnie had bought himself a boat . ) |
| 4 | The last three West Indian wickets were also to fall cheaply , but before that the batsmen had done rather better ; Greenidge and Haynes posted another century partnership and Lloyd and Gomes both reached the nineties . |
| 5 | I 've had a girlfriend for two and a half years , but before that I 'd never spoken to a girl in my life . |
| 6 | ‘ Since he became Prime Minister , Mr Major comes in about once a year but before that he was more of a regular . |
| 7 | But before that the Royals are going to have to endure a disturbing time . |
| 8 | He is leading a Kings Kids Christmas tour in Ayrshire but before that he is off to Albania to look at opportunities of taking a team there in Summer ‘ 93 . |
| 9 | William Pitt had said something similar a hundred years before , ‘ Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it ’ , but before that the idea does not seem to have been attractive . |
| 10 | But before that he had run a real stinker in the Stewards ' Cup . |
| 11 | But before that it was best , you know it was just all farm land , it was brilliant you know . |
| 12 | He says there ai n't nothing else next and er so er I stood there and I said this , kind of like this I 've got ta do something so er I went er to pick sommat up down the back but before that he said , here you are , he says I put these ready all you got ta do is put the screws in those locks you know , like . |
| 13 | Presumably it had once housed families of civilian workers at the army camp , but before that it might have been the home of some isolated community of wild-fowlers or oyster-dredgers , with smuggling , probably , as their main source of livelihood . |
| 14 | But before that she would make a cup of tea and read for a bit . |
| 15 | When there was a sense of unrest and what not , and then first one ship then the other , starts shuddering but before that happened we saw Germans coming off in the rafts and that . |
| 16 | The sadness and this is this subject was forecast a year and a half ago er that we are phasing in i in large management and land and it was raised , we had that seminar but before that there were also erm worries expressed before this predicament . |
| 17 | I ca n't quantify these , I ca n't tell you how many there 'll be , but there will be questions on motivation but before that there 'll be some questions on the basics of of kind of y'know studying , work , psychology , the sort of thing you 'll find in an introductory chapter er not only of the Arnold book but in other books as well . |
| 18 | not got the second part , anyway , he phoned up about ten to two and said , but , but before that she had said that he had met Mark |
| 19 | Breakfast is served from eight fifteen in the morning , but before that the Eastern Centre Swimming Gala will be held in the pool at seven o'clock . |