Example sentences of "before they go to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My sisters had to sweep the yard before they went to school . |
| 2 | The first victim to give evidence against him , a 26-year-old secretary , was raped after being served spiked champagne at his surgery before they went to a mutual friend 's home for dinner . |
| 3 | His first victim , a 26-year-old secretary , was raped after being served spiked champagne at his surgery before they went to a mutual friend 's home for dinner in February 1991 . |
| 4 | What they had eventually decided to sell before they went to bed that night ( or the following morning really ) were Great-Uncle Hilbert 's do–en Waterford sherry glasses . |
| 5 | Dad tucked a twin under each arm and took them home , where we helped to wash and clean them before they went to bed . |
| 6 | They used to come here , yes , to this hotel to spend their last nights before they went to that bridge to hurl themselves off , sometimes in front of a train ; but now the line has gone and the track removed we do n't get so many nuts coming to end their days . |
| 7 | It was dated 19 July 1964 , just before they went to Abbotsfield . |
| 8 | He recovered sufficiently to make love once more before they went to bed , but it was n't as frantic or as demanding and he fell asleep afterwards on the sofa . |
| 9 | She wanted the room to be tidy before they went to sleep as , after only some nine hours ' occupation , she felt a proprietorial interest in ‘ La Felicità ’ and wanted it to look its best always . |
| 10 | Before they went to bed they had filled buckets with what was left of the pool to use in the lavatories . |
| 11 | It might have been a cat knocking an empty tumbler off the bar — except that they did n't keep a cat , and all the glasses had been washed up and put away before they went to bed . |
| 12 | The rest of the day followed predictably — Len 's breakfast , seeing him off to work , cleaning the small , semi-detached house they were steadily paying for , looking after the baby , making Len 's evening meal , sitting by the fire in the evening watching the telly , before they went to bed … |
| 13 | ‘ She ought to have told him just before they went to church , ’ said Marian . |
| 14 | Before they went to sleep , Marian whispered , ‘ You will think of us when you are his wife , Tess , and how we did not hate you , because we did not expect to be chosen by him . ’ |
| 15 | You had er , in fact used to use our overhead , to erm test their chassis before they went to the body makers . |
| 16 | What nomes might have thought in those private moments before they went to sleep … well , that was private . |
| 17 | I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall . |
| 18 | I I the way I s I think I think was it Josephine he was married to , then then she would er she would object very strongly if he had a bath before they went to bed together . |
| 19 | Old people in particular often ensure each night before they go to bed that their house is tidy and their last instructions are by their bed in case they should die in the night and someone will have to find them in the morning . |
| 20 | They become readers in the sense of having positive expectations and motivation long before they go to school . |
| 21 | Others work better late at night , while a few people prefer to be up early in the morning and study before they go to work . |
| 22 | Else told 'im not to be disgustin' , and now every night there 's a terrible row before they go to bed — our bedroom 's right underneath theirs — and Else says she wo n't sleep in the same bed with 'im until 'e washes 'imself . ’ |
| 23 | Er and the young people who 've left school er who are having a year out in industry before they go to university . |
| 24 | The vaccination programme for dairy calves should , if possible , be completed before they go to grass in the spring or early summer . |
| 25 | A team with recharged batteries will therefore face Dundee , the side who beat Rangers in August , at Ibrox tomorrow as Smith 's players concentrate on securing the championship and removing Hearts from the Scottish Cup before they go to the south of France . |
| 26 | They usually they usually have a prayer before they go to sleep , right ? |
| 27 | has before they go to heaven , account |
| 28 | Said she , she 's going in for her fourth operation presumably to have this stapling done again , she says I believe that she 'd be far more counsellor , I , I would of thought she , she would of had counselling anyway before they go to stage of operating , surely , I mean , er do n't they look in into sort of psychological aspects of it , it 's usually a |
| 29 | Should children be encouraged to learn before they go to school ? |