"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
(16) eat, burn, shoot, fool
Kolokacji: 4
1. eaten before = zjedzony wcześniej eaten before
2. burned before = spalony wcześniej burned before
3. shot before = strzał wcześniej shot before
  • Two Dutch officers had been ambushed and shot dead at this spot only the week before.
  • This is my 11th war but I've never been shot before.
  • It was the same street where Omar had been shot the week before.
  • A teen-ager showed him an obituary for a 15-year-old who had been shot dead a couple of days before.
  • Brennan seemed to remember that Gulgowski had been shot in the head before, and lived.
  • One woman showed them what she said were blood stains left when her son was shot the day before.
  • A. I spot these people right from the beginning, even if they have never shot before.
  • He had been shot before, a graze across his ribs, but never anything like this.
  • The tank still wasn't steady, but Wager'd shot on the move before.
  • He'd been shot before, but it had never been like this.
4. fooled before = nabrany wcześniej fooled before
(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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