Example sentences of "[prep] they before " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The parents of small families knew much more about sex , contraception , and family building and had talked much more about them before marriage . |
| 2 | During the siege , the majority of prisoners sided with Chavez , who hosted a banquet for them before surrendering for medical treatment . |
| 3 | A plaque in the Bharatpur marshes records the November day in 1938 that the then Viceroy of India , Lord Linlithgow , bagged 4,373 wildfowl , 3,044 of them before lunch . |
| 4 | If a girl had two parents still at home , she had to get written permission from both of them before performing . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't know any of them before yesterday . |
| 6 | Mrs Fletcher was bending over the last of a bed of weeds , hoping finally to rid herself of them before her husband returned from the potato harvesting . |
| 7 | No fewer than seven of his siblings had died there — five of them before their first birthday . |
| 8 | Zhukov had posed the photograph with two of his ‘ models ’ , then meticulously superimposed the face of Mikhail Vologsky upon one of them before touching up and re-photographing the composite . |
| 9 | Egypt has made it a capital offence to receive military training abroad ; it has arrested dozens of returning veterans and tried 26 of them before a military court . |
| 10 | He looked very worried and nodded respectfully to the three of them before leaning over the bed , concern evident on his face . |
| 11 | This , obviously , is the place from which to inspect the western Pyrenees for a first time or , given the summary quality of the prospect , from which to take leave of them before driving north . |
| 12 | It is not possible here to attempt to unravel the many strands of thought and practice that have historically influenced the contemporary curriculum in this way , but it may be useful to refer briefly to some of them before going on to consider the current pattern . |
| 13 | A lot of them before that as well . |
| 14 | When learning the names of objects , have the objects or pictures of them before you , so that you associate the word you are learning with the object rather than through translation . |
| 15 | She had not worn either of them before and they were two years old , dresses she had bought before events had changed her from a very easygoing , happy person into a creature armed for defence . |
| 16 | Business Risks International , a company that counsels firms on terrorism , says that of 35,116 terrorist acts conducted between 1970 and 1988 , only 747 took place in North America , 626 of them before 1980 . |
| 17 | I recommend the reader to read through the conversations in Appendix 2 to get a general impression of them before returning to this chapter and the next to read the discussion of detailed points . |
| 18 | Erm Mick said afterwards , perhaps I ought to er try a verbal lambasting of them before every game , if that 's the sort of response I get , two from , one from , the two Garys on the score sheet . |
| 19 | She 'd never seen swings like them before or since — wooden boats painted bright yellow with curlicues of red and green , where two of you sat facing each other and pulled alternately on ropes to swing yourselves higher and higher . |
| 20 | Cilla and Artie were already seasoned folk musicians with a Melody Maker album of the year behind them before the amazing success of this children 's show — ‘ a pantomime without the boring bits ’ , as they describe it . |
| 21 | that went out to erm making up argu , you know if you 'd fallen out with somebody you had to make up with them before the bells , and in fact what my granny did was to erm to empty the fire and to relay the fire for the new year |
| 22 | He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them . |
| 23 | I hope Wilko knocks these lessons into them before Saturday . |
| 24 | And then you say , oh I 'll ring before them before ten thirty , but you do n't say ring |
| 25 | At least one species of African bushbaby , for example , cups its hands and urinates upon them before setting off into the African night . |
| 26 | They have an influence on an intellectual scene which encompasses a whole host of lesser thinkers , and they act as focuses for movements of thought which find powerful expression in them before passing on , often changed , or with added force . |
| 27 | The ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ was mythical , but fifteenth-century Atlantic charts suggest that belief in lands across the ocean was not uncommon , and there is more than just possibility that the Bristol men had heard of some landfall in them before 1480 , perhaps when ships had been blown off course by abnormal wind conditions . |
| 28 | ‘ Where did you learn anyway ? ’ he asked as they snapped their skis off and bumped the ice from them before going in . |
| 29 | Vigno had thrown our clothes on to the floor and poured a bottle of aftershave over them before stuffing them back into our lockers to ferment . |
| 30 | The only real clue to spotting them is that every homestead has electricity and if you see the buildings , you must find the wires going to them before making an approach . |