Example sentences of "before being [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to Leeds 's last game in the 1st Division before being relegated in 1978 ( ? ) . |
| 2 | They left Hobart with a small party on a government schooner bound for port Davey , but got no further than Recherche Bay before being prevented by stormy weather for a fortnight . |
| 3 | ‘ The Red Terror ’ , as Phar Lap was to become known , was a freak of breeding : his sire Night Raid failed to win at all in England before being sent to Australia and his dam Entreaty was unplaced on her only start . |
| 4 | He did an eight month fitter/armourer course ending up his training with top marks and a corporal 's stripes , and then did several months ' instructing before being sent to a ground crew on a Bomber Command airfield . |
| 5 | Remember that the values read from the games port can be mathematically manipulated before being sent to the controller circuit . |
| 6 | Northern Ireland minister Michael Mates was also a regular before being sent to Ulster . |
| 7 | They were quickly fitted with track brakes and put back into service on the Crystal Palace route still in Croydon Corporation livery , in which they ran for several weeks , before being sent to Hendon in turn for repainting and renumbering . |
| 8 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 9 | After some brief editing , Reference vinyl master discs are made on the company 's own lathe before being sent to one of the few remaining specialist pressing plants in the US . |
| 10 | Later in the war he commanded two more divisions , before being sent to Berlin early in 1919 as the head of the British military mission . |
| 11 | Ignoring the views of the Prime Minister is hardly in line with the basic training every local hack receives before being sent into combat . |
| 12 | Hence the long , much altered and much discussed passage beginning already mentioned on p. 85 ; and the ‘ spots of time ’ meditation to be discussed on pp. 134–9 — which is at the heart of Wordsworth 's concern with the use of the past , this too is already present in the first Part of the 1798–9 version , before being moved to its present position in the longer texts . |
| 13 | The caravan was stolen from a service station at Barton , near Darlington before being moved to the farm at Hetton-le-Hole . |
| 14 | The three pairs in my tank will all have paired and spawned together before being moved into the 36″ tank . |
| 15 | An extreme form of the second is the Spanish fighting bull which undergoes considerable pain before being despatched by the matador , even if this is skilfully done , and often it is n't . |
| 16 | However he remained with the Wellington unit only for a short time before being posted to Control Office duties at Luqa . |
| 17 | Brian Cook and John Craven went through the PR OCU as a crew in late 1964–1965 before being posted to 39 Squadron . |
| 18 | This is illustrated by the case of a girl who experienced a tremendous shock some three to four years before being seen at the homoeopathic out-patient clinic . |
| 19 | In hospitals without a psychiatric unit , patients usually had to wait several days before being seen by the psychiatrist , occupying medical beds and often antagonizing the medical staff by their presence . |
| 20 | After a late breakfast and a discussion of the programme , , and I explored Jaipur , the ‘ city of palaces ’ in the late afternoon , before being entertained at home by . |
| 21 | It then spends about a month in cellars or dark warehouses to ‘ ripen ’ to its maximum softness and elasticity , before being cut into strips just wider than the diameter of a cork . |
| 22 | And it refers to Britain 's own advanced passenger train as carrying ‘ its first fare-paying passengers in a record-breaking run from London to Glasgow before being withdrawn from service for further trials ’ . |
| 23 | She attempted a comeback in 1989 , but lost in the first round of both events she played before being sidelined by a car accident which required surgery on her right knee . |
| 24 | An industrialist was kidnapped in Pamplona on Nov. 24 and was held for 84 days before being freed on Feb. 16 [ see p. 37263 ] . |
| 25 | Since early days , the castle has been laid waste and rebuilt many times before being inherited by the great benefactress , Lady Anne Clifford , who restored it in 1660 . |
| 26 | Graham Connah 's excavations in 1964 , for the Department of Antiquities , revealed that tin-bronze was available in 13th-century Benin where it was cast into ingots in open moulds before being smithed into bracelets . |
| 27 | She remained in generic social work for nearly ten years before being headhunted into NISW 's management development department . |
| 28 | THE business dealings of a £40,000-a-year financial consultant , who was lured to a bogus appointment in a wealthy Home Counties village before being battered to death with a claw hammer , were being studied by police yesterday . |
| 29 | There was Irene Munro , who had improved her complexion with Icilma cream before being battered to death for her handbag on a beach . |
| 30 | Before being struck by a wave of arrests in 1848 , the most audacious among them — including the flamboyant M. V. Petrashevsky himself — were on the brink of establishing a radical organization . |