Example sentences of "in [art] [noun sg] [adj] [noun] before " in BNC.

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1 He 'd been in the country 2 years before being arrested and had gone to Goa to spend Christmas with friends .
2 SUSPECTED Sikh terrorists yesterday shot dead 19 students and seriously wounded several others in Patiala , Punjab , raising fears of a fresh extremist offensive in the north Indian state before this month 's parliamentary polls .
3 Hinrich Medau ( 1890–1974 ) was raised in the north German countryside before specialising in gymnastics , sport and music at teacher training college .
4 He 'd already stabbed me in the heart several times before that with other ladies , but at least this time , there was a lady that I liked immensely .
5 Thus , at the end of April , as the battle over budget-cutting came to a head in the House with members asked to choose between the Democratic-controlled Budget Committee package and the administration-sponsored Gramm-Latta substitute , O'Neill , ‘ threw in the towel two days before the actual vote . ’
6 By contrast , the energetic and efficient Clinton campaign ended with a flourish which saw the candidate visit eight states ( seven of which he later won ) in the final 29 hours before polling .
7 I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions .
8 Again , it would take a very stubborn inductivist to put his hand in a fire many times before concluding that fire burns .
9 They found that a severe event was of most aetiological significance if it threatened a role , person or idea to which a woman was particularly committed ( established in an interview one year before ) or if it matched a long-standing major difficulty in the woman 's life .
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