Example sentences of "on [art] [noun sg] before [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the girl at the reception desk discovered that I would be leaving early in the morning , she insisted on refunding £2 , since I would be on the road before she arrived to cook breakfast . |
| 2 | I crashed out on the bed before I got the chance . |
| 3 | But it does seem possible that Georgina purposely waylaid Arabella on the day before she died , and that the two of them had a row . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm glad he spoke up about the shooting on the river before he collapsed again , ’ said Coffin soberly . |
| 5 | She added , referring to the two meetings she held with Mr Lawson on the afternoon before he resigned : ‘ I tried to persuade the Chancellor not to go . |
| 6 | On the night before they took them out to be shot . |
| 7 | ‘ I was just telling you about this girl and what her mother said on the night before she got married to the sailor . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I am just remembering how you and Dame Martha saw Lady Eleanor on the night before she died . |
| 9 | So he did not understand why Izzie touched him on the shoulder before they began and said , ‘ At the first sign of any trouble , just stop . |
| 10 | ‘ Do we have to bang our heads on the floor before we understand ? |
| 11 | The difficulty was that he had started work on the poem before he had adequately prepared himself , although his haste was understandable . |
| 12 | ‘ I spoke to Hendrique on the phone before I left East Berlin . |
| 13 | Firmly clutching her hand he slowed , and Frere arced around them on still skates so that he made a sweeping circle on the ice before they came , breathless , to a halt . |
| 14 | He held McAllister 's hand for a little longer than propriety might demand , and the pair of them stood for a moment , rapt , until the surgery boy , who ran the doctor 's errands on his bike , delivered prescriptions and generally did a great deal of donkey work , knocked on the door before he came in , saying excitedly and importantly , ‘ You 're wanted , Dr Neil , sir . |
| 15 | They 're usually on the Pill before they have abortions . |
| 16 | In our evaluation of the case for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms we considered over 100 publications on the subject before we chose the best available evidence for inclusion in the decision analysis — this is not the ‘ narrow range ’ claimed by Shearman and colleagues . |
| 17 | She spent a lot of time on the beach before she became ill . |
| 18 | So today at RAF Lyneham they made sure everything went right on the ground before they got in the air . |
| 19 | Perhaps he feels the need to make one-to-one contact with everyone on the planet before he leaves it . |
| 20 | They must have all walked out on the movie before they saw how the tale ends . |
| 21 | Ginny managed to take off her coat , put the milk away and turn on the oven before he ran the pad to earth on the table beside his armchair . |
| 22 | I was quite sick on the train before we got to Euston , and have not liked long train journeys since . |
| 23 | This was perceptive and she was rewarded by a brief display of her daughter 's old impulsiveness , Sally-Anne kissing her mother fervently on the cheek before they joined Papa in the drawing-room . |
| 24 | When we arrived they kissed each other good night and Albert kissed me on the cheek before he turned and walked off . |
| 25 | Your puppy must be used to walking on the lead before you start any proper heel work training . |
| 26 | In fact we had made three other variations on the theme before we came to making this piece so there was really no excuse for getting it wrong , but we did . |
| 27 | Mrs Wormwood said to him , ‘ You should read the label on the tube before you start messing with dangerous products . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , then — ’ Alice walked across the kitchen to the open fireplace and , bending towards the oven at the side of it , she opened the door and took out a casserole dish and placed it on the table before she went on , ‘ If that 's how you 're feeling I think it 's about time you got yourself married . ’ |
| 29 | May I suggest , may I suggest that 's put on the report before it goes to council . |
| 30 | In West Germany shoppers look for a Blue Angel on the label before they purchase . |