Example sentences of "before [noun] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rumours killed Rachel Jackson before hubby took office , just as they had killed his 1824 presidential bid . |
| 2 | The abuse of prisoners by staff was a serious problem before Ellis took over . |
| 3 | Neighbours pulled her to safety just minutes before flames took hold . |
| 4 | Neighbours pulled her to safety just minutes before flames took hold . |
| 5 | He hit the crossbar with an audacious lob a minute before Chelsea took the lead . |
| 6 | Since the year-end Lowndes has settled one of its actions , paying £3m to NFC , the former National Freight Consortium , to cover ending a distribution agreement signed before Lowndes took over Harris Queensway . |
| 7 | That this must be the explanation for Kammerer 's disturbing results is attested to by the discovery of a wild midwife toad with rudimentary nuptial pads as much as two years before Kammerer took his own life . |
| 8 | Bills of exchange can have terms of up to 180 days before settlement takes place and can therefore be used to bridge a financial gap between the exporter making shipment and the importer taking delivery and selling the goods . |
| 9 | Further , the image was one of the friend before AIDS took its toll , a healthy image . |
| 10 | This item lists the documents that , as conveyancer for the buyer , you 'll need to prepare before completion takes place . |
| 11 | Fernandez , winner of 19 of his 25 bouts , landed some useful shots at the start before Hardy took control and in the third Hardy made the mistake of giving Fernandez too much of a target , but thereafter made himself more scarce , hitting and moving effectively . |
| 12 | It is now very difficult to park a car in Funchal as areas are being made into pedestrian streets and the central reservations in Avenida Arriaga are being restored to walking areas , as they used to be before cars took them over . |
| 13 | If ground had been lost since 1963 , it had been lost before Labour took power . |
| 14 | The embassy in London had been sending disturbing accounts of Britain 's over-stretched economy and defence forces well before Labour took office . |
| 15 | He scored seven before Constantine took his wicket and managed 11 in the second innings . |
| 16 | But she had not spoken before Taggy took in her condition . |
| 17 | He was the star writer on the NME then and always in the shop because he was a Keith Richards clone and our shop was the last one n the Kings Road before Granny Takes A Trip — where all the Keith Richards clones bought their clothes . |
| 18 | Even her mother , when she visited the Lab before Brenda took up her post , had been happy about her working alone with him . |
| 19 | Mushtaq , shortly before England took the lead , was inconsolable when Smith survived and appeal after padding up to a googly . |
| 20 | Most of this stuff must have been here long before Glynn took over the business ; it 's a museum of pharmaceutical archaeology — ’ |
| 21 | Such people can be a great trial and anxiety to their family and friends , but they suffer very badly and may need psychiatric help before recovery takes place . |
| 22 | Even before Bowe took the title from Holyfield , Newman was threatening to break the agreement and have Bowe fight George Foreman before Lewis . |
| 23 | Mr Powell will step down at Christmas , days before Carlton takes over the franchise held by Thames on New Year 's Day . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm just really happy I was able to come back in the second and third sets , ’ said Sukova , who held three set points in the first set , including two in the tie-break , before Sanchez took the decider 9–7 . |
| 25 | As authorities built up resources and expertise , and became able to take on the responsibility for making available all land needed for particular types of development , the secretary of state was to have made orders providing that land for development of the kind designated in the order and in the area specified by the order must have passed through public ownership before development took place . |
| 26 | The Col d'Aubisque is high , at 5,600 feet , and the views that you have from it are sumptuous , both back the way you have come , and now to the east as well , across to the prominent peak of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , once thought to be the highest in the chain because it stands rather apart and closer to the plain , and before people took to actually measuring altitudes , the nearest peaks were mistaken for the tallest . |
| 27 | The list of n-grams collected was first built into a binary tree structure for ease of searching before comparison takes place ( see chapter three for further discussion of memory structures ) . |
| 28 | It 's one of the oldest sports in the world and was the ‘ sport of kings ’ in England long before horse-racing took hold . |
| 29 | The essentials of that strategy , of Reaganomics , were put together in an economic policy memorandum agreed seventeen months before Reagan took office . |
| 30 | It was some weeks before Bobbie took her brother and sister to meet the friendly engine driver and fireman . |