Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] before they [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have never actually used these for help or advice myself , as I was aware of my infection before they were formed and had by then come to terms with it . |
| 2 | The Government says it 'll consider all responses to its proposals before they 're implemented . |
| 3 | She tried to regroup her scattered brain tissue , pulling back pieces of her mind before they were lost for ever . |
| 4 | Huge queues formed outside shops as people tried to spend all their savings before they were devalued . |
| 5 | The subtlety of the wrap-around influence of alien presuppositions is that they do their work before they are noticed . |
| 6 | Thus , if people achieve a fair degree of mastery over outcomes and have experience in controlling and manipulating the sources of reinforcement in their lives before they are exposed to uncontrollability , they should be more resilient to depression . |
| 7 | Children must be given the opportunity to talk through their ideas before they are expected to write them down . |
| 8 | A criticism of the 1990–91 NHS reforms was the absence of pilot schemes to test their efficiency before they were introduced generally . |
| 9 | Crucial to the operation of the scheme was the CNAA 's recognition that some institutions had established successful ‘ internal validating committees ’ as sub-committees of Academic Boards , ‘ responsible for considering schemes on their behalf before they are submitted to the Council ’ , and others had developed faculty or school machinery to do the same . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , there 's more than one flat for rent in London , is n't there ? ’ their father chipped in to declare , and then , with a fond look at his wife , ‘ And if there is n't , my dear — well , I 'm sure , for such a good cause , we could consider letting Leith and Sebastian have the inheritance from their grandfather before they 're twenty-five . ’ |
| 11 | England were put in and saw half their wickets fall for 96 in half their overs before they were rescued by 71 from Lamb and 50 from Jack Richards , with the spinners chipping in as well . |
| 12 | ‘ They 're going to laugh on the other side of their faces before they 're through . ’ |
| 13 | The besieger had become the besieged , and Matilda had only escaped because of the gallant rearguard action of her half-brother , Robert , Earl of Gloucester , as they fought their way out of their castle before they were starved out . |
| 14 | ‘ Natty suddenly called out , ‘ Look massa ’ ; in an instant the air before us seemed literally filled with a dense mass of these birds , which had suddenly rose from under the trees at his exclamation ; we had scarcely time to raise our guns before they were seventy or eighty yards off ; our united discharge , however , brought down eight additional specimens , all of which being merely winged and fluttering about , attracted the attention of our kangaroo dogs , and it was with the greatest difficulty that they could be prevented from tearing them to pieces ; in the midst of the scramble , a kite , with the utmost audacity , came to the attack , and would doubtless , in spite of our presence , have carried off his share , had not the contents of my second barrel stopped his career . |
| 15 | ‘ Let's not count our vultures before they 're hatched , eh ? ’ |