Example sentences of "[coord] before [that] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came here only two years ago , and before that he owned a school in the north of England . |
| 2 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 3 | And before that he had brought her back from the world , home again into the enclave of the Scarabae . |
| 4 | Middlesbrough-born Alf has been chief personnel officer with Middlesbrough council since 1974 and before that he worked for Teesside county borough council . |
| 5 | He says there ai n't nothing else next and er so er I stood there and I said this , kind of like this I 've got ta do something so er I went er to pick sommat up down the back but before that he said , here you are , he says I put these ready all you got ta do is put the screws in those locks you know , like . |
| 6 | But before that he had run a real stinker in the Stewards ' Cup . |