Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] before [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually the girls devoured the roulade before it left Coleherne Court . |
| 2 | Once the board has turned you will have to move forwards quickly to kill the turn before it goes too far . |
| 3 | " Andrew Stavanger is a fine shipping man — his family owned the fleet before he sold out to the group . |
| 4 | Are you gon na eat the lot before you go to bed ? |
| 5 | I need n't have bothered ; Casey crosses the road before he reaches us . |
| 6 | When you remove the basin brackets from the wall , it is more likely that you will damage the plaster ( there may also be some wood there with an advanced case of wet rot ) ; Allow time in the schedule for repairing the plaster before you go any further — modern d-i-y plasters can be applied up to two inches thick . |
| 7 | They want me to insist that the company sacks the foreman before they go back , but I 've told 'em I wo n't be a party to victimisation either way . ’ |
| 8 | Since , on average , the target word actually took 369 milliseconds to say on the recording subjects were listening to , this means that subjects had often pressed the button before they had heard all of the target word . |
| 9 | So tight is the position at present that many would-be solicitors have to take the gamble of completing the Final before they have fixed up articles . |
| 10 | She must 've left her statement , walked over to her car and she checked the car before she checked the four kids . |
| 11 | Although he acknowledges that the moisture content is high , he says the extra drying costs are offset by catching the crop before it sheds any ears . |
| 12 | Vi smelled the desolation before she saw it : a mingling of dust and rubble and burning , water-doused timber . |
| 13 | I 'm afraid we ca n't do any chopping up into biscuits , I should of checked the recipe before we started really should n't I ? |
| 14 | But Summers suggests , ambitiously , that there was solid evidence which , he claims , was what stopped Hoover tackling the Mob before it came to awesome power in America . |
| 15 | ‘ Got to rush now , Bob ; want to catch the bank before they close . |
| 16 | The person with that number must dash forward and try to catch the plate before it stops spinning . |
| 17 | Shareware and Public Domain programs are often as good as their commercial counterparts , and there is the added advantage of being able to try the software before you buy it on payment of a nominal fee . |
| 18 | This should lead us to harbour severe doubts about the ‘ scientific ’ nature of such research , since it seems to already know the answer before it goes out to investigate . |
| 19 | and what would happen to the programme it would be wrong at this point in time , to accept the paper before one knows what the is of the County Council as a whole will be . |
| 20 | To achieve this , each female visits the nest before she starts laying and throws out one or more of the existing eggs . |
| 21 | He seated himself beside her , seemingly unaware that a rag doll and two lead soldiers had occupied the chair before he reached it . |
| 22 | He screamed that he would give himself to the Devil if he caught the girl before she reached home . |
| 23 | He blinked , and caught the smile before it got away . |
| 24 | He caught the tea before it toppled , and sat and held her while she howled her eyes out . |
| 25 | He caught the peel before it hit the floor and threw it out of the window . |
| 26 | He laid the knives out beside the board and then , because it was growing dark , brought the lamp from beside the old ceramic butler sink , trimming the wick before he lit it . |
| 27 | Somehow the atmosphere of the theatre last night was light and informal and no doubt many hundreds of other patrons will enjoy the show before it comes to an end on Saturday night . |
| 28 | The person who has that number must catch the plate before it stops spinning . |
| 29 | The player thrown to must try and catch the bomb before it explodes . |
| 30 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |