Example sentences of "before [pron] be [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hasten to add before I am taken to court by mountain men with beards that this is highly irresponsible behaviour and extremely dangerous . |
| 2 | Paramedics had to give Lesley a litre of plasma in an emergency transfusion and put her on a drip before she was taken to hospital . |
| 3 | Thus , if people achieve a fair degree of mastery over outcomes and have experience in controlling and manipulating the sources of reinforcement in their lives before they are exposed to uncontrollability , they should be more resilient to depression . |
| 4 | More than 500 weavers went on strike in defence of this " ancient custom " , staying out through the winter from November to February before they were reduced to acceptance of the threepence compensation . |
| 5 | There was the man demobbed from his regiment who came to do the garden just as he had before he was called to war . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . ’ |
| 7 | ( Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . |
| 8 | After the defendant 's Ford Fiesta crashed , Scott had to be restrained before he was taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 9 | Doctor Teesdale visited the condemned man in prison once or twice during the week before he was put to death . |
| 10 | However , some calculations on the visual input have already been performed in the retina , before it is passed to area 17 . |