Example sentences of "[noun pl] before i [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or you can say : I 've researched it , I know the idea is right , I 'm going to go in big and I 'm going to have to sustain four or five years of losses before I turn it into a profit . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It was years before I realised it was even common parlance , ’ Kenneth said , still staring out to the loch . |
| 4 | Do you think I should read this to members before I send it ? or do you think I should send it ? |
| 5 | I quickly cast back out again to the same spot and to my total astonishment the rod was almost pulled out of my hands before I got it back to the rests . |
| 6 | I said I 'll leave mine out for the bloody bin men before I take it down the tippy . |
| 7 | Yeah they go to mush and then I put more taters into it later on , about twenty minutes before I need it , but it thickens it so they 'll eat it . |
| 8 | Christ , I 'd only been in the hospital for about ten minutes before I snuffed it ! ’ |
| 9 | So maybe we would have been great to have the skills before I did it , and that 's why I am on the course this Erm , the only thing that I can think of that 's erm , something that I do believe and I am committed to getting changed , is er , a system in our offices , in one of our departments , but I do have erm , authority over the people that I would be talking to , so , I know at the end of the day , I could just say , do it , but I 'm trying to get them to believe in changing erm , and just sort of certain benefits of it . |
| 10 | If I had had to justify my work in terms of clinical benefits before I started it , I would never have been given a licence . |