Example sentences of "[noun] before they [vb past] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The investors did commission some initial market research before they invested their money , ’ says former Institute president Mike Lickiss , who is currently ATV 's independent chairman . |
| 2 | ‘ The lads were joking that I would be back in the team before they got their hands on the trophy , ’ said McGuinness . |
| 3 | Reagan himself claimed that the SDI was defensive in character , since it was designed to dispose of nuclear weapons before they reached their target , and that it was in any event a programme of research in the first instance . |
| 4 | The Flemish cities , Laon , and Toulouse were all commercial centres of more than local importance before they launched their campaigns for privileges ; and if their leaders were not highly educated men at the beginning of the century — it has been suggested that the reason why weaving was concentrated in towns in Flanders was that illiterate merchants could not keep the complicated records necessary for a scattered cottage industry — then they rapidly acquired learning along with their corporate awareness in the course of the century . |
| 5 | Klatzky , Clark and Macken ( 1973 ) found that children learned nonsense words for the positive , extended , ends of dimensions before they learned their negative counterparts . |
| 6 | FORMBY always looked the better side but had to wait until the 85th minute before they gained their just reward , Paul Proctor scoring . |
| 7 | ‘ The children knew much about the beach environment before they began their study . |
| 8 | it looks like he 's learnt from the Arse match where he was hauled back for 5 yards by Campbell before they scored their 2nd . |
| 9 | It was several seconds before they recovered their breath . |
| 10 | There were a few moments silence before they turned their backs to the church and , still holding hands , sang : |
| 11 | Connery was already a vocal supporter of the SNP before they had their first parliamentary victories in the Sixties , and when SNP fortunes were low in 1969 , you could still hear his recorded voice from the campaign trucks in the slums of the Gorbals , saying Scotland is a nation and should stand on her own two feet . |
| 12 | Yeah , they played well the year before they held their own see they 've got all the |
| 13 | Mr John Lear , aged 84 , president of North Yorkshire and South Durham area ramblers ' association , collapsed after lunching with friends in Reeth in Swaledale before they resumed their walk . |