Example sentences of "[coord] before [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was always the top broker at any firm I worked for on Wall Street and before that I sold memberships at the Museum of Modern Art . |
| 2 | The success of the new Continental R , and before that the Bentley Turbo , shows that if it can make the sort of car that new customers approve of , it should still be able to find 3,000 buyers a year around the world . |
| 3 | ‘ Respiratory failure at 11.30 p.m. ’ she said ( why did women have to be so scrupulously exact as to detail ? ) ‘ and before that he could n't swallow . |
| 4 | Up to 1980 , there were two and before that a number of riverside cottages at different times were shops . |
| 5 | This aircraft has been in the UK for some time , latterly at Audley End , Essex , and before that Rochester , Kent , and Duxford , Cambs , having been recovered from the fire dump at Decimomannu , Sardinia , Italy . |
| 6 | ‘ Hawaii Five-O was a hit show while the Manson Family was on trial , and before that it was a really drab , boring FBI kind of show . |
| 7 | Jaross , a Data General and before that a DEC alumnus , had been director of educational services at DG and intends to make use of that background at Uniforum . |
| 8 | You could n't join the library until you were seven , and before that I read my Hans Christian Anderson back to front when I 'd read it twenty times from start to finish . |
| 9 | Er previous to that I held the licence for The Mason 's Arms at for three years previous to that and before that I 've been connected with the catering and licence trade from being fifteen . |
| 10 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 11 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 12 | Eighty three a big hit for Toto , Africa and before that Take That and their new single Pray looking gorgeous as ever and Take That the g older they get , the more classy and good looking they get . |
| 13 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 14 | And before that he had brought her back from the world , home again into the enclave of the Scarabae . |
| 15 | And before that you were having er horrendous irregular periods ? |
| 16 | And before that I was m back in Nottingham . |
| 17 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 18 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 19 | The standing of this school , established in 1543 and before that a Cistercian Abby , was considerable . |
| 20 | They came here only two years ago , and before that he owned a school in the north of England . |
| 21 | And before that we were fellow medics at Barts . ’ |
| 22 | I sought to explain to him then and before that we not only need to sort out finance but to get on with distributing the food that they can grow , with the production of the food that they do not grow , and sort out their system of feeding the people . |
| 23 | Among the office holders named by the three leaders were : as secretary general Park Jun Byung , a DJP legislator since 1985 and before that an Army general who as commander of the 20th Division had been involved in the violent suppression of the 1980 Kwangju rebellion , a continuing source of bitterness within the South Korean political system ; as floor leader Kim Dong Young , former floor leader of the RDP and one of Kim Young Sam 's closest confidants ; and as chief policy maker Kim Yong Hwan , who had been elected to the National Assembly in 1987 and was one of the most experienced members of the NDRP . |
| 24 | The territory affected by the secession had been the British Somaliland Protectorate until July 1960 , when it had merged with the territory to the south — which had been a UN trust territory , and before that an Italian colony , known as Somalia — to form an independent Somalia . |
| 25 | That 's John the County Planning Officer for North Yorkshire and before that the Minerals Plan er Planning Consultant from the Protesters Group Peter . |
| 26 | The standard WCC process is long : applications to start in Oct 1990 should theoretically be with Geneva by Oct 1989 , and before that they have to be approved by the relevant screening body within the student 's country ( usually the Council of churches ) and by the sending institution ( eg a church ) . |
| 27 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 28 | Erm , Jane 's twenty six , and before that used to be a hairdresser , as you can tell . |
| 29 | Middlesbrough-born Alf has been chief personnel officer with Middlesbrough council since 1974 and before that he worked for Teesside county borough council . |
| 30 | And before that it was known as . |