Example sentences of "and before that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Respiratory failure at 11.30 p.m. ’ she said ( why did women have to be so scrupulously exact as to detail ? ) ‘ and before that he could n't swallow . |
| 2 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 3 | And before that he had brought her back from the world , home again into the enclave of the Scarabae . |
| 4 | They came here only two years ago , and before that he owned a school in the north of England . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough-born Alf has been chief personnel officer with Middlesbrough council since 1974 and before that he worked for Teesside county borough council . |