Example sentences of "before [pers pn] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 2 | Well it should be in the file and I asked for this and keep it before me when a scheme is set up , A we have a map which I must have sent out letters , |
| 3 | ‘ Pineapple pyramids : I always felt that the Jews made them to mourn all the slaves before them that the Egyptians had broken with building their mighty pyramids . ’ |
| 4 | In presenting the main commentary , remember that readers will either have the original table before them or a number of tabular extracts presented by you to clarify points of interest . |
| 5 | In the two year prior to instituting of the 1½ litre formula in 1961 , the Cooper-Climax , driven by Jack Brabham , swept all before them as the Australian installed himself as one of the all-time greats , first as a driver , and later as a constructor . |
| 6 | Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through . |
| 7 | We approached it on the basis of er , collecting information on the Children in Need definition which a , er , a paper came before you when the Children 's Act was implemented , and that gives local discretion to authorities to , to define Children in need . |
| 8 | With a line of shrubs before you and a sandy bank behind . |
| 9 | I would suggest to you that given that and also the wording in the justification under the old Policy E three , that in fact you could hardly get a tissue paper between this policy that is now before you and the previous policy . |
| 10 | Silence ! the resolutions before you and the second , the working party and to consider and coordinate from to endless . |
| 11 | I accept that it was not mandatory upon the judge to require that the mother be given notice of the foster mother 's application , but he knew in general terms from the evidence before him that the mother had maintained an active interest in the children and that she was unhappy about the children 's placement with the foster mother . |
| 12 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 13 | A few years earlier he had been the undisputed master of the empire : two hundred thousand of his warriors had paraded before him while a hundred thousand others guarded the marches of the north or fought the Somalis in the deserts to the east . |
| 14 | Already the auctioneer was positioned outside on the lawn , a table before him and a wooden gavel in his hand . |
| 15 | Now he sat at the kitchen table with the worm-cake before him and the taste of nausea already on his tongue . |
| 16 | Throughout King James 's reign Andrewes preached before him and the Court almost every year at the great festivals of Christmas , Easter and Whitsun . |
| 17 | Opposition crumbled before him and the path he followed was strewn with gold . |
| 18 | You see one stayed but he was there before him and the other one carried on . |
| 19 | Besides , Cecilia had the example of poor Evelina before her and the recollection of a family rumour that a brother of that manufacturing grandfather had died in a lunatic asylum . |
| 20 | The immense sky opened before her and the warm sun lifted her spirit . |
| 21 | The Macintosh implementation , like OS/2 version 1 before it and the MS-DOS and Windows versions , are clients : simple , thin layers of software that provide application programming interfaces enabling the machine to interact with the main part of the application that runs on the server . |
| 22 | I would reject the argument advanced before us that a failure to follow the judicial advice on tariff , save in exceptional cases , is in itself irrational . |
| 23 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 24 | You will notice it is a yellow card also er it is somewhat larger than the other one which was flaunted earlier before us and the good news is that you 've got , each one of you , a copy of this in your cubbyholes . |