Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] before it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , of course , that 's a very startling example of a drug which was n't properly checked through before it was used on a mass basis . |
| 2 | Mr Fox planned to build himself a home very near the village , of which he had plans ready , but unfortunately he passed away before it was built . |
| 3 | Also the wood formed a very strange texture , it is very rough in patches and there are lots of tiny holes in the wood where worms had tunnelled there before it was broken off . |
| 4 | ‘ He knew someone who used to live there before it was owned by a Mr … ’ |
| 5 | The van burst into flames , giving the two occupants only seconds to get out before it was engulfed . |
| 6 | Witnesses in Berridale Avenue , Baillieston , where the attack happened , said the two men , who were both wearing balaclavas , hurled the flaming bottles through one of the van 's windows , giving the two occupants only seconds to get out before it was engulfed . |
| 7 | The van burst into flames , giving the two occupants only seconds to get out before it was engulfed . |
| 8 | Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced . |
| 9 | A HOUSING complex was left looking like a swastika after funds ran out before it was finished . |
| 10 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |