Example sentences of "[adv] before he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ron was virtually dead physiologically before he achieved a consistent recognition of the severity of his state . |
| 2 | Craig McLachlan could be very easily dismissed as just another soap star turned muso , but Craig was playing guitar in bands long before he became an actor . |
| 3 | Long before he reached the edge of the wood he knew this was no mere cavalry raid . |
| 4 | Of another restorer working on similar sculptures , Minervino claimed that he ‘ stopped long before he reached the skin of the marble ’ . |
| 5 | He had grown quite a bit , both upwards and outwards and , as I shook hands with him , I reflected that it would not be long before he won a professional tournament . |
| 6 | Peter Powell 's adventures with kites had already put him into the headlines when he ‘ flew ’ his grandmother , long before he perfected the diamond-shaped stunter that made him a worldwide name from 1974 . |
| 7 | It would n't be long before he closed a deal with one or other of the chain stores who had shown an interest in the site . |
| 8 | Betty and George had both worked and were able to enjoy a few years of their retirement together before he had a major stroke . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One business source said : ‘ He has a low base salary and he has to stand out in the sun a great deal longer before he gets a bonus at the oasis . |
| 11 | The historian George Trevelyan , shortly before he became a Fellow of Trinity , wrote to his brother Charles : |
| 12 | He wrote a poem , ‘ The Jew ’ , and a play , ‘ Moses ’ , published in a pamphlet of that title shortly before he crossed the Channel with the King 's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in June 1916 . |
| 13 | Shortly before he joined the Jesuits he burned all he had written , as a sacrifice to his vocation . |
| 14 | ‘ In the Same Boat ’ has Kipling 's Conroy exclaim just before he meets the hysterical , drug-taking woman , Miss Henschil , |
| 15 | ‘ Alex Household must have said it just before he shot the gun ; Micky heard it over the deaf-aid and just repeated it . ’ |
| 16 | Just before he got a good grip he went , he got a grip and he was just about to squeeze this , I went I sort of went of tiptoes and I goes , I 'll let it slide this time . |
| 17 | Just before he reached the ramp , I could hear the engine hesitate ; he throttled down . |
| 18 | The news reached Napoleon III just before he left the Tuileries to distribute the prizes to the successful exhibitors , and observers noticed , without at that stage knowing the reason , that during the ceremony he seemed even more abstracted than usual . |
| 19 | Now , just before he left the country for what would be the last time . |
| 20 | Just before he entered the city , he was transferred to a ‘ miserable and worn out animal , covered with filth ’ . |
| 21 | If we do we 'll be like the man in the cartoon who fell off the Empire State Building and shouted just before he hit the ground ‘ I 'm doing great so far ’ . |
| 22 | Just before he reported a technical problem on the plane , then radioed to say everything was OK . |
| 23 | ‘ They 'd got a tail off a fox fur and pinned it on the back of Victor 's coat just before he started the dance . |
| 24 | Then , turning aside before he reached the porch , he used his own keys to open a small iron-barred gate leading to a narrow passageway . |
| 25 | He cut another slice of bread and spread the butter on it from edge to edge very carefully before he took a big bite . |
| 26 | Even before he plays a note , he has the audience in the palm of his hand . |
| 27 | Even before he touched the exposed flesh , she could feel her nipples tingling , tightening to aching points , thrusting proud and carmine under the caressing gaze . |
| 28 | So he had worn that hard hat , since even before he left the home . |
| 29 | It does something even more wonderful , it accelerates critical illness diagnosis by paying out on the disabling condition like loss of limb , where it creates a situation where the permanent person get paid out even before he has a critical condition , because that condition threatens his chances of paying his daily needs due to financial independence . |
| 30 | And he was here before he bought the place . |