Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] before [pers pn] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carey checked it , then dragged back on the rod and took up the slack , working that way for five minutes or so before he beached the fish . |
| 2 | Of course , this strategy had a distinct disadvantage in that each time I moved towards the light to serve the gentlemen , my advancing footsteps would echo long and loud before I reached the table , drawing attention to my impending arrival in the most ostentatious manner ; but it did have the great merit of making my person only partially visible while I remained stationary . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought long and hard before I left the NHS to move into the private sector . |
| 4 | But not before he kissed the top of my helmet and shouted at me : " Oh , my mum 's going to hear about this . " |
| 5 | Morel died soon after , but not before he had the bitter pleasure of seeing the Labour Government brought down with the aid of a ‘ red scare ’ engineered , it appeared at the time , by Foreign Office officials . |
| 6 | ‘ Although if I knew them and I wanted a nice picture — smiling , arms around each other — I would call out to them , but not before I reached the third frame . ’ |
| 7 | But not before I saw the speedometer register over 100 mph and decided to fasten my seat belt . |
| 8 | As I said to my husband only last night ( just after I had eaten my miserable Lean Cuisine but just before I finished the box of Black Magic ) : ‘ Is n't it terrible the way we allow advertisers to manipulate us ? ’ |