Example sentences of "before [pron] [vb past] her [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I snatched up my doll , Topsey , and laid her in the cart and ran after Mum who was half way down the street before I caught her up . |
| 2 | The interruption was sardonic , but Isabel merely shook her head , intent on finishing before he cut her off again . |
| 3 | But if things were quiet on the Rosemary and Travis front , Leith was very much aware that there was a brute of a man in the new extension who was only biding his time before he tripped her up . |
| 4 | Even so , it seemed forever before he drew her back into his arms . |
| 5 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |