Example sentences of "before he [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was referring to the illness which put him in hospital last year before he was moved out of Pollsmoor to his present quarters , formerly a prison warden 's home . |
| 2 | When his bastard turned out to be studious , the boy was accepted into the English bachelor 's house for a short time before he was shipped off to prep school and public school in his father 's country . |
| 3 | Particular attention centres on four pubs the Owton Lodge , the Traveller 's Rest , the Hour Glass and the Smiths Arms at Greatham which Mr McEvoy is known to have visited just before he was gunned down outside his home in Greta Avenue last Saturday . |
| 4 | He tumbled sixty feet before he was brought up with a jolt . |
| 5 | It was 1942 before he was allowed back at Fox to make another film — Zanuck was as that time away on war service and knew nothing about it . |
| 6 | It was the end of October before he was allowed back to his lodgings . |
| 7 | But the news was kept from Boris , 24 , before he was knocked out of the US Open championship , it said . |
| 8 | ‘ Bill ’ , weighed an astonishing 1,157.5 kg just before he was put down after suffering a broken leg in an accident en route to the Chicago World Fair for exhibition in 1933 . ’ |
| 9 | I knew enough Latin to know this name meant the Light-Bearers , Satan 's name before he was thrown out of heaven . |