Example sentences of "me before i " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not to walk out on me before I run out of steam . |
| 2 | Tremayne lent me his Volvo to go to the boatyard in the morning , reminding me before I set off that it was the day of the awards dinner at which he was to be honoured . |
| 3 | She came to seem me before I began to use the LM potencies and there was some minor pathology in the kidney related to surgery for prolapsed kidney , so I was reluctant to use higher than 200 . |
| 4 | That 's me before I was who I am now . |
| 5 | ‘ You can tell the difference by their boots , ’ Irena told me before I 'd had a chance to ask the question . |
| 6 | That sounds to me like the sort of liberal view which many of John 's contemporaries would have expressed at that age , under the influence of reformers like A. S. Neill — a comparison that occurred to me before I discovered that he had been meant to attend Neill 's school . |
| 7 | Although she probably forgot me before I even reached the corridor , that smile was worth Sir Henry Morgan 's fortune . |
| 8 | ‘ No ; the police came to see me before I had had time to make other arrangements . |
| 9 | It took about three months of him distressing me before I read it . |
| 10 | ‘ I remember looking around behind me before I hit the ground to see if any riders were coming up , ’ he added . |
| 11 | You knew me before I was born . |
| 12 | And McAvennie , 32 , who laid on Dalian Atkinson 's Villa goal to rock the Saints , says : ‘ Ron had better sign me before I fade away completely . |
| 13 | That thought had occurred to me before I was hauled off to Southwold police station for the interrogation . |
| 14 | I think he bowled a hundred or so deliveries for me before I got the images right . |
| 15 | The double meaning , when it struck me , forced a gasp of half-hysterical laughter out of me before I could control myself ; I clamped a hand over my mouth . |
| 16 | I wo n't be held by a promise that was unfairly extracted from me before I legally became an adult . |
| 17 | ‘ Is there anything you want to ask me before I go ? |
| 18 | I 've got an interesting point that I relate about this job that when I went to see them , about starting this job , they said , Well , they never told me before I got in , they said er , We 've er we 've got no money so we ca n't pay you a very good wage , but er we 'll start you off with five pound a week , that 's all we can afford , well I was earning more than that , during the War , nineteen forty two . |
| 19 | This was the old slug 's vicious inheritance , Carson thought bitterly , to dump the money on me before I 'd had a chance to learn how to fight for it or to handle it and too late for it to be of any real use . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , the housemaid said something to me before I came in to prayers , and that just tickled me and I could n't help it . ’ |
| 21 | With ninety-nine persons out of a hundred , I would have known it was a bluff ; but he was different , and a nervousness had hold of me before I could resist it . |
| 22 | Er now unfortunately I 'm away next week , so if if the message does n't get to me before I 've gone , it 'll be the week after that I then get back to Mrs . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'll have to tell me before I can judge that . |
| 24 | ‘ You look pale , and I do n't want you passing out on me before I 've heard the rest of this story . ’ |
| 25 | There is a tiny glass bead in the door , one of those squint-through devices where you check the daily rapist , but since the landlord has never seen me before I am content to stand there looking serious , like an estate agent with news . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's funny , everybody could see me before I came to Spain . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Mike thrust them at me before I left , so I brought them with me . |
| 28 | Just suppose that creature eluded my first stream of bullets and got to me before I could kill it … |
| 29 | Then I ask my neighbour , also a paan seller , to double check for me before I return the change to the customer or else I would be cheated . |
| 30 | Stop me before I kill again |