Example sentences of "long before [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you stay still , you can hear other people moving towards you long before they can see you . |
| 2 | ‘ How long before you can start it ? ’ |
| 3 | Going home next day , he noticed as he waited on the platform for the tube to Baker Street , that the track sings as the train comes into West Hampstead , long before you can see it , and the silver lines shiver as it approaches . |
| 4 | Outdoor pelota you can hear long before you can see it , because the sharp crack of the ball on the end-wall carries all through or even outside the villages . |
| 5 | ( The present writer 's introduction to Wallis Budge 's books on ancient Egypt , long before he could read them with understanding , led him — forty years later — to the temples of Karnak and Luxor and to the Valley of the Kings . ) |
| 6 | Christina hoped it would n't be too long before she could make her escape . |
| 7 | This story was a favourite of the headmistress of her primary school , so she heard it often at Morning Prayers , and long before she could see it as a parable , she already felt shock before its injustice . |