Example sentences of "of the [noun] before they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless they demonstrated their loyalty , Jordan would be keen to be rid of most of the refugees before they became a source of sedition . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He quietly took them to the back of the house before they left . |
| 8 | Shaw , Black and Lulu all cheekily carved their own slices of the cake before they reached the matronly age of eighteen . |
| 9 | She would do well to get out of the area before they turned up . |