"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
(17) sleep, dream
Kolokacji: 2
(18) could
Kolokacji: 1
(19) kiss, touch, explore
Kolokacji: 3
(20) smell, glimpse, understand
Kolokacji: 3
1. understand before = zrozum wcześniej understand before
2. smelled before = poczuć zapach wcześniej smelled before
  • How could I recognize a scent I'd never smelled before, you ask?
  • Barbara Brown had smelled like food before, but now that first flush of adrenaline kicked through her system.
  • It was the same decaying-meat stink she had smelled before.
  • Air, which he had never smelled before, flowed quietly around him.
  • It was surprising squatters hadn't smelled out the place before.
  • A rich, complex odor, nothing like any of them had smelled before.
  • But this smell was something new, something unlike anything he had smelled before.
  • Oddly, he had never really paid that much attention to how this room had smelled before.
  • The place did stink, though, like nothing I'd ever smelled before, but it wasn't any sort of gas to affect the budgie or me.
  • There was a stink she had never smelled before, sharp in her nose and scary.
3. glimpsed before = spostrzeżony wcześniej glimpsed before
before + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 3
wrong before • bad before • possible before

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