Example sentences of "[noun] before [verb] up [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 2 | She knew , however , that her mother could be relied upon to have fastened up the hens before coming up to the Oaks ' farm for the supper , so she settled her fears . |
| 3 | The EC dragged its feet before coming up with a reluctant and minimal proposal to reform farm trade . |
| 4 | DEAN RICHARDS and Martin Bayfield both gave England team manager Geoff Cooke a scare before joining up with the Grand Slam squad . |
| 5 | They may be retained there for days or weeks before swimming up to the top of the tract and fertilising an egg . |
| 6 | If you are getting a ‘ low light ’ warning in the viewfinder , take a careful look at the picture before giving up on the shot ; if the light is only marginally below par it may still be worth taking despite the warning . |
| 7 | Check your existing lender 's redemption charge before signing up for a replacement loan . |
| 8 | Contract tummy muscles before coming up in a controlled manner , exhaling as effort is made . |
| 9 | They had to taste more than a hundred and thirty wines before coming up with a winner . |
| 10 | After a cautious start , Wharton , at 24 , a year younger than the Australian , took his time in the first three minutes before opening up with a series of punches in the next three rounds . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought we might have got round to talking new terms before breaking up for the summer , but I was told the board were n't able to arrange a meeting . |
| 12 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 13 | The narrow fissure stretched some twenty-five feet into the cliff before opening up into the tiny cave . |
| 14 | LANCASHIRE 'S prolific run-scorer Neil Fairbrother ( left ) and Middlesex 's exciting young spinner Phil Tufnell get into the Christmas spirit before joining up with the rest of their England colleagues who fly off on Monday for the winter tour to India . |
| 15 | ‘ If you ran a mile race , you would go off fairly quickly then settle at an even pace before building up towards the end . |
| 16 | Dari Sound overcame interference before getting up inside the final furlong at Beverley and today 's extra distance may suit him even better . |
| 17 | The Isla , which has drawn power from tributaries high in the Grampian mountains , then adds further strength from the likes of the Ardle and the Ericht before linking up with the Tay . |