Example sentences of "before he [verb] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , no , the present the present one was a I think he was a Chairman of a big building society before he came into the Post Office and they use these are on three year terms , but er the previous Post Office one er spent nine years as Chairman , spent three yea three terms of three years . |
| 2 | He said he loo would die before he got into a car like that ! |
| 3 | He wished she 'd told him she was going to see her friend before he got into the car . |
| 4 | ‘ What you 're saying , ’ Spruce said , ‘ is that he was dead before he got into the pit . ’ |
| 5 | Connon took a last look back at the gathering gloom before he stepped into the house . |
| 6 | I 'd hardly got the receiver to my ear before he launched into a blistering tirade . |
| 7 | Two seconds before he slammed into a tree he braked to a halt , got off the cart and ambled back towards them , grinning with calculated boyish charm . |
| 8 | No matter how carefully you have studied that Elvis 1968 comeback special look , emulating the King of Sex before he turned into the King of Lard , those around you are reminded more of Alvin Stardust singing ‘ My Coo-Ca-Choo ’ in PVC . |
| 9 | Celia Hooper 's husband , Denis , had fixed up a little mirror for Peter to examine himself in before he emerged into the church . |
| 10 | Caine says the sacking was the first of many set-backs before he broke into the big time more than a decade later with films like Zulu and Alfie . |
| 11 | The manservant dropped to one knee , brought the crossbow up , again the death-bearing click , and the whirring crossbow bolt caught the second assassin just before he slipped into the darkness . |