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Example sentences for "before very"

  • Before very long we will meet again and compare notes, only I warn you, Mr. Andrew, that if any change comes, it comes to you.

  • The worst of it is that nothing in the world would induce me to forego the pleasure I promise myself, before very long, too, of giving to the whole world the story of your infamy.

  • Before very long I shall be my own mistress.

  • Done," said Jack; and for the next fifteen or twenty minutes he was busy dragging in aspen and cottonwood sticks of which, before very long, he had a good pile.

  • Before very long, Hugh and Jack had put two or three miles between Rock Creek and themselves, and just after sundown they camped in a pleasant part of the valley where there was good grass and water, but not much wood.

  • Before very long, his record being clean, he was the recipient of a mark of favour from the warden's office.

  • It was the second best and, before very long, was to be the third best.

  • Before very long he would be all a citizen.

  • Before very long, a counter-irritant appeared in the shape of a fellow-traveller, whose luggage consisted of a stick and an old pair of boots.

  • Before very long we reached a little kennel-like hut of boughs, which no decent dog would have lived in, and no large dog could have entered, and from this we drew a charcoal-burner.

  • That will be before very long, since I have promised Mr. Yocomb some music.

  • Before very long, that considerate lady looked into my face a moment, and then said decisively: "Richard, thee is getting tired.

  • Before very long Mr. Hearn entered with Miss Warren, and the banker was in fine spirits.

  • Your paper will be full of it before very long, Mr. Morton.

  • Before very long, though, the skin was absolutely hairless, and as white on the hair side as it was white on the flesh side when Joe turned it over.

  • I think perhaps somebody will have to go before very long.

  • Before very long, of course, this nest is deeply covered with snow, and the bear lies fast asleep inside it for four or five months, living on the fat which it stored up inside its body during the summer.

  • Before very long, of course, their jaws would have met in the middle.

  • So before very long a young cuckoo is hatched out, together with her own little ones.

  • So before very long it projects in front of the other teeth.

  • The money, however, melted away as though by a slow hemorrhage; before very long he refused to produce more, and the history of both systems thus came to an end.

  • At all events, before very long my explorations were interrupted by the arrival of some of her promised guests.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    before alluded; before being; before coming; before death; before directed; before going; before long; before mentioned; before reaching; before remarked; before returning; before serving; before starting; before taking; before thee; before thou; before using; before very; down along; fixed rate; great grandson; like substance; night time; pecuniary difficulties; sometimes known; this family