Example sentences of "of the [noun] before they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can get out of the country before they come for you . |
| 2 | THE depressed state of our own economy recently presented holidaymakers bound for Asia and Africa with an unexpected opportunity to practise shopping techniques common in some parts of the globe before they set off . |
| 3 | Unless they demonstrated their loyalty , Jordan would be keen to be rid of most of the refugees before they became a source of sedition . |
| 4 | The requirement that there be a real possibility of a breach of the peace before they act is rarely subject to close judicial scrutiny . |
| 5 | The visible sufferings of the Croats before they had travelled five miles were terrible ; their invisible sufferings , with the prospect of the long march before them , many barefoot and without hope of food before they reached Maribor at the earliest , must have been indescribable . " |
| 6 | Connery was already a vocal supporter of the SNP before they had their first parliamentary victories in the Sixties , and when SNP fortunes were low in 1969 , you could still hear his recorded voice from the campaign trucks in the slums of the Gorbals , saying Scotland is a nation and should stand on her own two feet . |
| 7 | The French won but it was a Pyrrhic victory and their victorious momentum was lost ; they contented themselves with sailing up the Ouse , burning settlements on the way and anchoring within sight of the town before they withdrew . |
| 8 | And Roger laid about him with his whip , and left the print of it on two of the rogues before they downed him and used the thong to bind him . |
| 9 | The police arrested all of the group before they reached home and they , the army authorities and NIO knew that the paramilitary organisations were not involved in any way . |
| 10 | He quietly took them to the back of the house before they left . |
| 11 | Plaintiffs should not assume that they are entitled to be " whitewashed " by a defendant who has paid them merely nominal damages , and it would be more satisfactory if judges made some enquiries of the parties before they approve statements which are made as matters of public record . |
| 12 | Shaw , Black and Lulu all cheekily carved their own slices of the cake before they reached the matronly age of eighteen . |
| 13 | She would do well to get out of the area before they turned up . |