Example sentences of "[noun pl] before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she heard his steps before he knocked — she opened the door very quickly — and he wondered for a moment if she had been as she had when he last saw her , standing just inside the door , her head on one side , listening , as she had listened to the bombs , and to the siren she heard before it was sounded . |
| 2 | As I run I 'm computing the Mamba 's speed in that heavy black frock against my chances of making it up the north transept steps before he rounds the corner . |
| 3 | She had hardly taken a couple of steps before she was surrounded by clubgoers , and was forced to swallow a quick rush of impatience , summoning up her brightest smile as she accepted their compliments . |
| 4 | ‘ If you touch that fish I 'll have you up the steps before you can say Jack Robinson , ’ hissed Herbie , going blue in the face ‘ Whaddya mean , ’ argued Lofty , ‘ I found im and I got ta licence . ’ |
| 5 | We do not wish to say how a writer should organise his written discourse into paragraphs before we have managed to characterise , in any comprehensive way , how writers typically do so . |
| 6 | Even in West Fife and Rhondda East , the Central Committee declared that : " the Party is prepared to , in conjunction with the Trade Unions and Labour bodies in them , convene a selection conference , bring the various working class candidates before it and abide by their decisions " . |
| 7 | According to a spokesman for the Birmingham Midshires building society , which still provides finance for self-build schemes , people are now encouraged to sell their first homes before they start building a new one . |
| 8 | Formed in 1918 in Waco , Texas , the squadron had several American homes before it came over to England as part of NATO — moving to Upper Heyford in 1970 . |
| 9 | This is an alcohol this is an ether now while we 've got the opportunity we 'll talk about the naming of ethers before we get onto this this last form of structural isomerism . |
| 10 | As one textbook advises : " It is necessary to translate your ideas into the language of variables before you can carry out or evaluate research . |
| 11 | It is as though Lawrence was acknowledging that it is hard for human beings to say what they feel and that we often have to search for the form of words before we can find the words themselves . |
| 12 | Each remembered all too clearly Okawi 's parting words before they had pushed each canoe clear of the beach : |
| 13 | Write down your words before you speak them into the tape . |
| 14 | It is also helpful to have the LH simply read down the list of words before you start the actual checking . |
| 15 | Mother Bombie 's last words before she took herself off to her own quarters had been , ‘ Rose — shift over . |
| 16 | Her mouth had formed the words before she realised . |
| 17 | He and Kenneth started conversing using no fewer than five-syllable words before he 'd even got out of the car , and have been rabbiting happily like two philatelists over a rare collection . |
| 18 | He looked like a nome who would have to learn new words before he could describe things . |
| 19 | ‘ Those were Flint 's last words before he died , ’ cried Morgan . |
| 20 | These were the corporal 's final words before he went round the barracks turning down every one of the gas lights . |
| 21 | Myeloski took some Polaroid pictures before they left , having sent Duncan to the car for his camera . |
| 22 | He rushed towards her so violently that Miss Fogerty put out her hands to grasp his shoulders before he should butt her to the ground . |
| 23 | With great speed , the CWA created jobs for over 4 million Americans , constructing new highways , airports and schools before it ended in April 1934 . |
| 24 | The 1895 visit to Swindon , in place of the summer term at St. Paul 's , repeats an earlier pattern in Edward 's life between schools before he won a scholarship to Battersea Grammar School and while his youngest brother Julian was born into the already over-crowded house at 61 Shelgate Road . |
| 25 | During building renovations in a Milan flat at the end of October , copies of letters were discovered written in 1978 by the then DC president , Aldo Moro , while he was being held captive by the Red Brigades before they murdered him [ see pp. 29053-55 ] . |
| 26 | They will have to ask permission from the match umpires before they can use their fingers to scratch mud from the surface of the ball . |
| 27 | Although the animal was slow to mature ( some claimed that it would keep growing until it was six years old ) the new society was able to show that properly managed steers could reach market weights before they were two years old . |
| 28 | And erm we had him on two lots of antibiotics before he even had an anaesthetic to get the inflammation down and I do n't want it to get worse ! |
| 29 | Each explanation creates anomalies but , as noted , a theory can live with many anomalies before they need be deemed counter-examples . |
| 30 | The minor age differences between zircons and other kimberlite minerals may result from the second magmatic pulse required to account for the disruption and deformation of MARID nodules before they are incorporated in the final erupted kimberlite . |