Example sentences of "before [pron] could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking at my diary after lunch , I realised it was MKM day and they might sell out before someone could get me a copy ! |
| 2 | Before I could gather myself properly , I found myself being dragged across the desert at more than thirty miles per hour by the wind … . |
| 3 | I then noticed how large the Wrasse had grown , snatching the food from my fingers before I could offer it to my other fish . |
| 4 | But he was taken away before I could discover his history — as you know very well . ’ |
| 5 | My eye fell on a page she had left on the kitchen table the other day and I had noted , before I could avert my eyes , a pretty scholarly history of my conversion to double-knotting , after an incident when I was unable to get out of the train at Greenwich one evening and found myself being carried on to Maze Hill , because someone was standing on the trailing lace of my shoe . |
| 6 | I got on before I could change my mind and we bounced around for a few minutes . |
| 7 | Before I could answer his questions he remarked slowly , ‘ You know , Boyo , I had a bloody good dream . |
| 8 | ‘ Did you enjoy the piece ? ’ he asked , and before I could answer he went on , ‘ I myself did not . |
| 9 | Before I could twist my face into anything faintly resembling a sneer , the vendor explained that there were four such structures in a similar state of repair and that a Frenchman had expressed great interest . |
| 10 | Happily Lendl 's humour resurfaced when he was asked what difference marriage had made : ‘ Before I could do everything I wanted to do , now I have to ask . ’ |
| 11 | Before I could do anything , two medics came sprinting along the path from the direction of the big house . |
| 12 | So Herbie did n't try and jump in the car before I could lift him and trying to get Audrey in with her stiff leg . |
| 13 | I could have just walked past him in silence , but something made me turn and say quickly , before I could stop myself , ‘ Thank you , Mr Rochester , for your great kindness . |
| 14 | ‘ I could always ask a policeman , ’ I said before I could stop myself . |
| 15 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 16 | Before I could stop him . |
| 17 | ‘ Just picked up my yoghurt and cucumber sandwich and ate it before I could stop him . |
| 18 | He picked himself up , roaring with rage , and , before I could stop him , whipped out his dagger and gave Master Ferrebourg a nasty gash across his chest whilst lifting the purse from his belt . |
| 19 | before I could stop him , he 'd bought his ! |
| 20 | The words rushed out before I could stop them . |
| 21 | But before I could fetch it , he told me to come near him . |
| 22 | Richard was out of the car before I could open my door . |
| 23 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |
| 24 | it 's erm , please leave your name and number , and the postal area code and I could n't figure out what they meant , your post code , or what , anyway , I sort , I , I left this long pause , shut your face I left this really long pause , and it just like clicked off before I could leave my phone number , so they 've got my , my answer and my names , but they have n't got my phone number , so I thought well , that 's not much good , they ca n't phone you , can they ? |
| 25 | I do n't know whether you 'll think I 'm boasting but that is n't the case , but I never ever regretted it and it a great deal of respect for me , you know and I could see that and did appreciate it and I know the people appreciated it just the same and erm it 's gone on from then till now but about , I retired in seventy-three , I was sixty-five and I said I 'd only do what anybody wanted for me , cos they had me in for the tax and I never ever heard twenty-one I think it was or thirty-one in come and I 'd go before I could satisfy them at Walsall but er I 'd got , not got enough money to be taxed in the bank , which was true . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And before I could speak she was all over me . |
| 28 | I began to make my way towards the doors , but before I could reach them , M. Dupont touched my arm . |
| 29 | Before I could examine them , I was buffeted by a gust of wind and rain . |
| 30 | And before I could reply she rushed on , eyes moist with excitement . |