"before" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

before adverbio

verbo + before
Kolokacji: 128
seen before • heard before • happened before • exist before • mentioned before • met before • say before • come before • gone before • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 20
(3) exist, live, face, lie
Kolokacji: 4
(7) go, die, leave, fly, fall, ...
Kolokacji: 13
(8) make, occur, build, grow
Kolokacji: 4
(9) think, remember, imagine
Kolokacji: 3
(11) write, publish, release
Kolokacji: 3
(12) wear, miss, lack
Kolokacji: 3
1. wear before = noś wcześniej wear before
2. missed before = opuszczony wcześniej missed before
3. lacked before = nie mieć wcześniej lacked before
  • King's articles in the paper gave the movement some philosophical and practical basis that it had lacked before.
  • She held herself with a new confidence, a certainty that she had lacked before.
  • New leadership gave it a respectability it had lacked before.
  • But, like a shadow, I lent her the edge, the depth, the crucial definition, that she had lacked before.
  • H paused, and his voice took on an elegiac tone it had lacked before.
  • He now had a bargaining point where he had lacked one before.
  • Then the cheaply synthesised voice took on an urgency it had lacked before.
  • The black girl's voice filled out, becoming beautiful, and the boys' instruments assumed authority they had lacked before.
  • The strokes had boldness and force to them that they had lacked before.
  • That gave her a deep feeling of security that she had lacked before.
(16) eat, burn, shoot, fool
Kolokacji: 4
(17) sleep, dream
Kolokacji: 2
(18) could
Kolokacji: 1
(19) kiss, touch, explore
Kolokacji: 3
(20) smell, glimpse, understand
Kolokacji: 3
before + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 3
wrong before • bad before • possible before

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