Example sentences of "year before i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headmaster from 1927 to 1953 ( from the year before I was born to the year before I joined the staff ) was C. G. M. Broom : a scholar of Brasenose and , like all his predecessors , a classic in the old manner . |
| 2 | The headmaster from 1927 to 1953 ( from the year before I was born to the year before I joined the staff ) was C. G. M. Broom : a scholar of Brasenose and , like all his predecessors , a classic in the old manner . |
| 3 | Indeed , it was March that year before I managed to obtain a false set , which meant I had to go through the entire winter without a tooth in the top of my mouth . |
| 4 | This was about a year before I joined John Mayall and in fact the band I was in , The Crusaders , had a gig there after they opened it up for rock'n'roll . |
| 5 | ‘ I never earned more than $3000 a year before I was thirty-one . |
| 6 | ‘ Going out to America saved me a lot of time — an English surgeon had told me it would be a year before I kicked a ball again but I was back playing within six months . ’ |
| 7 | About a year before I left it was all discussed when I would be made a partner along with one or two other people who were being brought through . |
| 8 | It was strange to see the Prince occupying the same segment of sofa where only the year before I had talked to his uncle . |
| 9 | He was tall and he was grim and it was a full year before I worked with him again . ’ |
| 10 | I had to learn and to make many new things , and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread . |
| 11 | Also Keith thought he could n't have any children because he 'd been out with a girl for a year before I started going out with him and they did n't take any precautions and she never got pregnant . |
| 12 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 13 | It seemed a year before I got him out of there . |
| 14 | Naturally I was very keen to get back into cutter activities as soon as possible , but it was year before I managed to establish myself into cutter crewing duties once more . |
| 15 | The team , including John Hall from Scottish Nuclear , had been there for a year before I arrived and had done much in identifying the work required . |
| 16 | It was about a year before I retired , a wet , windy day in early November . |
| 17 | I could never go longer than a year before I sabotaged everything I built up . ’ |
| 18 | The year before I married . |
| 19 | He will be erm erm yes he was born the year before I had my hysterectomy he was bor yes , but do you know he 'll |