Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [noun] before [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His parents were not surprised when he asked for a lock on his bedroom door before he had reached his teenage years . |
| 2 | Taking both these factors into account , I conclude that a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence should be given the opportunity to make representations in writing to the Secretary of State about the length of his tariff period before it is set . |
| 3 | It is tempting to buy a small unit of Wolf Riders and use them to race ahead of your army , move around the enemy 's flanks , and maybe to attack his war machines before he has a chance to use them on your main force . |
| 4 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 5 | In other words , the sceptic , if he is to make himself understood , can not avoid relying on the conceptual scheme that he is overtly attacking , and if so , his argument collapses before it can even get off the ground . |
| 6 | My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died . |
| 7 | The jury at his trial at Bristol Crown Court has been told that Hagans watched the offices where Mrs McGurk worked from behind the bars of his prison cell before he was granted bail.The court has been told that after the murder , he tried to sell the victim 's wedding ring . |
| 8 | The programme in which he was seen chasing his fire engine before it sped off drew some criticism from the Berkshire and Reading Fire Service . |