Example sentences of "him before he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dying Pitt , rejoicing in the House of Lords that the grave had not closed over him before he could protest against ‘ the dismemberment of this noble empire ’ , was a tragic figure ; but the tragedy was in the absurdity of the protest . |
| 2 | If you injured this one , it would be as well to kill him before he killed you . |
| 3 | He gently insisted that Francis Morgan got a cup of tea , with sugar , down him before he escorted him out to the waiting car . |
| 4 | She was spending the night with him before he went off for a walking weekend in Derbyshire . |
| 5 | My Dad 's away on business again tomorrow and I want to spend a bit of time with him before he goes . |
| 6 | He has also got a good routine going with his putting now that his caddie , Fanny Sunesson , has stopped crouching down behind him before he putts to make sure he is aiming in the right direction . |
| 7 | So I hit him before he could hit me . |
| 8 | And with a short night 's sleep behind him and a miserable hour ahead of him before he could get away to the hospital , the day would be spoiled before it started . |
| 9 | These doorless lifts unnerved Roland ; she stepped in precisely and was lifted above him before he dared follow , so that he was already clambering onto the pedestal she occupied when he lunged forward and up , almost too late . |
| 10 | He has always been very bad about it , which is why he injured himself at Steve Hadley 's yard , and even now John has to dope him before he is clipped . |
| 11 | Stop him before he kills him ! ’ |
| 12 | Bardely intercepted him before he had gone many yards … |
| 13 | They are bondagers , women hired by a male farm worker or ‘ hind ’ who has to provide a woman to work with him before he will be hired by a farmer . |
| 14 | A nurse intercepted him before he left and queried whether William had requested it . |
| 15 | The war had interrupted and postponed many a career , J's amongst them , and he had three years ' university ahead of him before he would be in any position to marry . |
| 16 | And although Hugh did not recall ever having seen him before he answered contentedly . |
| 17 | Many others would say yes to him before he asked for anything . |
| 18 | I do so want to help him before he makes a complete fool of himself . |
| 19 | Former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath told him before he left that the Government should have pushed ahead with ratification of the Maastricht Treaty , despite Denamrk 's no vote . |
| 20 | The vicar managed to catch him before he fell to the floor , and he was removed to his home , where he died on the Friday morning , 8 September . |
| 21 | After some time he found himself down at the Green , where Emily had not come with him ; and remembered Emily , and decided that he must ask her to become engaged to him before he went , to wait for him ; would she agree ? |
| 22 | I had n't wanted him before he was born , and , though I had never neglected him physically , I had n't loved him in the way most mothers love their children . |
| 23 | Police said : ‘ It 's a good job we got to him before he lost his hair , put on a frilly collar and developed total mastery of Elizabethan England . |
| 24 | Unable to ‘ hit the bottle ’ , Gary had to take the official doctor home with him before he could provide the required sample . |
| 25 | Carol had told him before he went home , so Bissett knew what to look for — Carol was the conduit of all the gossip for H3 — and it put him in his best humour of the day . |
| 26 | It drove two of the witnesses to the door , one of them Bloxham , whose nausea overtook him before he could reach the corridor . |
| 27 | Detective Inspector Jack Rogers , who is leading the hunt for the man , said : ‘ We must catch him before he kills someone ’ ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ And if you put a bullet into him before he can pass the information on to Bailey then Mobuto 's as good as dead . |
| 29 | And then you can intercept him before he can get to Bernard . ’ |
| 30 | To maintain good credibility with the client , you need to call him before he sees an article in a newspaper that may affect his company — after all you are supposed to be his key person with the best knowledge of the media . |