Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] before [pers pn] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 2 | You 'll read that sort of round and round a few times before you get it straight in your head what 's |
| 3 | Aye , we 'll just have a wee few minutes before we set them up . ’ |
| 4 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 5 | Fran murmured her thanks as the woman collected the dog and went on her way , but it was a few minutes before she followed her . |
| 6 | It was some hours before he had his wish . |
| 7 | Keats was written rapidly at Selsfield House in 1913 some months before he began his work there on the Childhood and the Fiction . |
| 8 | Like a few months before you get your provisional and while you 're working you can save the rest of your money , like you 're . |
| 9 | It was about two and a half years before he wrote anything like it again . |
| 10 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |
| 11 | I 'll try , but you 'll have to give me a few days before you pull her in . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ A few days before he joined his army , King James was at prayer in the royal chapel at Linlithgow . |
| 13 | Fortunately , however , a few weeks before I found it I attended a lecture given by a Dr Peter Herring , of an oceanographic research institute based in Godalming , on the subject of marine bioluminescence . |
| 14 | ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’ |
| 15 | He gazed calmly for a few seconds before he lifted his hand in greeting . |
| 16 | A few moments before he died he rubbed his cheek against our hands desperate for our touch , like a kitten or a very young baby ; in the next he was once again the brave young fighter pilot , and , in a curiously jaunty gesture he put his thumbs up , as though telling control tower he was ready now for take off . |
| 17 | He sat in the driver 's seat to get the feel for a few moments before he started it up . |
| 18 | I saw no signs and had gone a few miles before I saw my first human being . |
| 19 | Please note that individual hotels , guest houses and selfcatering establishments have the right to vary the conditions outlined here and/or impose additional conditions , provided them inform you of such conditions before they accept your booking . |
| 20 | The King , she announced , would have to prove his household was cleared of these doxies before she allowed him into her bed . |
| 21 | But you want to try these pickups before you dismiss them out of hand . |
| 22 | Chew it many times before you swallow it . |
| 23 | They learned that if they blew and sucked a little at all baits before they accepted them , the safe ones moved easily and the dangerous ones did not . |
| 24 | It was many weeks before she regained her self-esteem . |
| 25 | It was a few more years before I found mine . |
| 26 | And er so er er I said to my friend , like me pals I said , Well look we we have n't been in the Army a year , so we 've got to be in two more years before it comes our turn our turn to be demobilized , so we just might as well sign up for a couple year , get two months leave and twenty quid , because we shall do that if we do n't . |
| 27 | if they 'd keep for Christmas that 's why they charged so much for them , those Mackintosh reds and that , and I mean it told you then in one of those magazines that were , John was reading that he said make sure that you wash those apples before you eat them . |
| 28 | She made several more journeys before he noticed her tiredness . |
| 29 | Isabel needed his protection as far as Winchester , and if he did n't have those answers before they arrived he would keep her under restraint until he unlocked every secret she possessed . |
| 30 | The mystery of this curious behaviour intrigued me , but it was several days before I discovered its logic from a Prague friend . |