Example sentences of "[noun pl] before i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mystery of this curious behaviour intrigued me , but it was several days before I discovered its logic from a Prague friend . |
| 2 | ‘ It was one of her customers , in the days before I made her my manager , ’ he said lightly . |
| 3 | I had it for about two weeks before I told him I 'd got it ! |
| 4 | So how did Tony manage to gain the confidence of the dealers , ‘ It took at least two or three weeks before I took my camera out and that was probably one of the hardest things I did . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fifty-two years before I met him , Lawrence Beesley had been a second-class passenger on the maiden voyage of the Titanic . |
| 7 | ‘ It was years before I realised it was even common parlance , ’ Kenneth said , still staring out to the loch . |
| 8 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 9 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 10 | It was a few more years before I found mine . |
| 11 | You were all political innocents , a dupe for the Pigs and the Pigs ' masters before I joined you . |
| 12 | … if I calculated stages before I ordered my horses , I should abandon the attempt , and remain quietly at home . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And of course it was ages before I knew she meant bruise . |
| 15 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 16 | Christ , I 'd only been in the hospital for about ten minutes before I snuffed it ! ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I saw no signs and had gone a few miles before I saw my first human being . |
| 20 | I died a thousand deaths before I got him ashore , but eventually , at the fourth attempt , I managed to beach the fish . |