Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] before they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw pliant girls offering him the laurels of victory before they fainted before his conquering feet . |
| 2 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 3 | The second in line to the throne was still known officially as ‘ Baby Wales ’ and it took the couple several days of discussion before they arrived at a name . |
| 4 | It took another five days of route-marching before they heard the first sound of artillery fire , could smell the trenches and therefore knew they must be approaching the front . |
| 5 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 6 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 7 | Klatzky , Clark and Macken ( 1973 ) found that children learned nonsense words for the positive , extended , ends of dimensions before they learned their negative counterparts . |