Example sentences of "[noun prp] before he [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul then allied briefly with Napoleon before he was assassinated in favour of his son , Alexander I ( 1801–25 ) . |
| 2 | I have never met him since for I left Bristol before he was appointed to the Chair of Music but he was remembered with affection by many of my peers . |
| 3 | ‘ What I want to grieve is the old Maurice before he was laid so humiliatingly low by whatever it was — a stroke , a deprivation of oxygen , an act of God — we 'll never know . |
| 4 | I look at a photograph of my father still in uniform , taken at Loch Lomond before he was demobbed , as he stands smiling between his younger brother and the English friend he had met in an Italian POW camp . |
| 5 | They want to identify every patient who was operated on by Dr Yarub Almahawi in Dungannon before he was diagnosed HIV positive in February 1990 . |
| 6 | It was the end of October before he was allowed back to his lodgings . |
| 7 | ‘ Was any check made on Mr Marr before he was inducted ? ’ |
| 8 | McKeag , chairman of Newcastle before he was ousted by Hall , is still United 's League representative but holds no power at the club . |
| 9 | Shortly afterwards he was diagnosed as having Parkinson 's disease , but still became part-time coach with Sunderland before he was forced to quit the game as his condition deteriorated . |
| 10 | He got as far as Rugby before he was caught . |
| 11 | William John McCoubrey ( 35 ) lay dead in his house at Blackmountain Grove , Belfast , for two or three days last March before he was found by a relative . |
| 12 | Officers of merchant ships were particularly vulnerable if they did not have in their possession a written protection from impressment issued by the Admiralty , and David Scott was enabled to oblige both Provost Watt of Forfar and several influential merchants of Dundee by securing the freedom of Peter Brown , the mate of the ship John and Nancy of Dundee , though in this case the Dundee magistrates had to provide an able seaman as a replacement for Brown before he was freed from the pressing tender . |
| 13 | Duduc had been given lands at Congresbury and Banwell in Somerset and a monasterium in Gloucester before he was promoted to Wells , and another royal priest , Stigand , received the new church at Assandun and became a major figure under Edward the Confessor , eventually ( and illegally ) holding the great sees of Winchester and Canterbury in plurality . |