Example sentences of "before he [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he left for Nassau the Cabinet agreed that he should reject offers made by McNamara for Britain to continue the Skybolt development on a fifty-fifty cost-sharing basis with no guarantee that the US would buy the weapon in the end ; or to buy the lower-performance US Hound Dog missile for her V Force . |
| 2 | Before he left for his six weeks stay in Swindon that spring he had first called her ‘ sweet ’ , she recalled four months later , ‘ in the little passage , near the willows , near the farm ’ on Wandsworth Common . |
| 3 | Before he left for Lincoln College on 14 October '98 , Helen was peremptorily given a week 's notice by Mrs Andrews who had secretly been reading Edward 's letters and now accused Helen of ‘ illicit connexion ’ with him . |
| 4 | Mr Browning , before he left for the south , complimented her on her handling of his friend . |
| 5 | Although he trained with the England A team during the winter and felt optimistic , he was in pain again before he left for Portugal and looked on the tour as a ‘ make-or-break ’ exercise . |
| 6 | ‘ I put my views to the Chief Secretary , ’ he said calmly , ‘ before he left for London . |
| 7 | He felt he had to speak to someone before he left for good . |
| 8 | It was Mary Donovan who suggested that Eileen 's younger brother might slip in to see his nephew before he left for America . |
| 9 | He had never yet seen her washed and dressed before he left for his game of golf on the way to the small art gallery that he owned in Brook Street . |
| 10 | It was he who let the kidnapper in before he left for work . |
| 11 | If he had been able to speak to Jo each morning before he left for the Embassy , he probably would n't have been such a pain in the outer office . |
| 12 | He had been planning a trip to Jamaica before he left for France . |
| 13 | He thought that probably it would be the evening before Jagatan woke , but he needed to discuss certain matters with him before he left for Kinsai . |
| 14 | Terry had to go back on Sunday night and before he left for the station hugged his mother and looked fearfully into her drawn face . |
| 15 | I rang Seddon at home before he left for New Scotland Yard and asked him to find out for me the names of the officers who had dealt with the Southwark Bridge case . |
| 16 | According to Mandeville , before he left for his fateful journey to London , Hopkins cleared out his entire chamber , the very one you are now using . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We discussed this before he ran for office , ’ said five-times-wed Virginia Kelley , 69 , at her home in Hot Springs , Arkansas . |
| 18 | According to Reagan himself , when he appeared on the factory floor In assessing Reagan 's qualifications for the presidency his experience before he ran for elective office can not be discounted . |
| 19 | Now , two days before he sailed for New York , Mary smuggled him in to see the child . |
| 20 | ‘ I wed Kim — and them I married her mum ’ Colin and Kim on their wedding day ( left ) — before he fell for her mother |
| 21 | Soon Godwin was to sell the shop to Collins — and trigger its slow decline — but before he quit for a job as chief editor with Penguin Books he decided to open a paperback section in Old Compton Street . |
| 22 | Many others would say yes to him before he asked for anything . |
| 23 | Martha , her youngest , was being courted by Sam Baldwin , the youngest son of the family at Cauldron Mill ; although the lad had not yet spoken to Jonadab , Annie knew it would not be long before he asked for their daughter as his bride . |
| 24 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher cited two different routes : a recommendation of a consultancy from a referral source , i.e. an executive who has come into contact with the headhunter on a previous assignment ; and by direct experience of a particular search firm from the user point of view from a Kingfisher executive who had employed that firm on a previous occasion , before he worked for Kingfisher . |
| 25 | Such a problem was analysed in M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1956 ] 3 All ER 814 when Denning LJ said : I do not … see why the employers should be able to forbid him to call on the people whom he already knew before he worked for them … |
| 26 | He gave his departmental heads time to get back to their offices before he rang for Hilary Robarts and asked her to come back . |
| 27 | he served with the Irish Guards before he volunteered for the Commandos , and you can be sure that he will have you playing that tune as often as possible , as long as you do n't play it around this H.Q , I do n't mind . ’ |
| 28 | The ambassador returned to the charge at the beginning of April 1950 , just before he departed for visits to Australia and New Zealand before returning to Seoul . |