Example sentences of "before he [vb past] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Mary Donovan who suggested that Eileen 's younger brother might slip in to see his nephew before he left for America . |
| 2 | He had been planning a trip to Jamaica before he left for France . |
| 3 | It was he who let the kidnapper in before he left for work . |
| 4 | He thought that probably it would be the evening before Jagatan woke , but he needed to discuss certain matters with him before he left for Kinsai . |
| 5 | Before he left for Lincoln College on 14 October '98 , Helen was peremptorily given a week 's notice by Mrs Andrews who had secretly been reading Edward 's letters and now accused Helen of ‘ illicit connexion ’ with him . |
| 6 | ‘ I put my views to the Chief Secretary , ’ he said calmly , ‘ before he left for London . |
| 7 | Although he trained with the England A team during the winter and felt optimistic , he was in pain again before he left for Portugal and looked on the tour as a ‘ make-or-break ’ exercise . |
| 8 | Before he left for Nassau the Cabinet agreed that he should reject offers made by McNamara for Britain to continue the Skybolt development on a fifty-fifty cost-sharing basis with no guarantee that the US would buy the weapon in the end ; or to buy the lower-performance US Hound Dog missile for her V Force . |
| 9 | ‘ We discussed this before he ran for office , ’ said five-times-wed Virginia Kelley , 69 , at her home in Hot Springs , Arkansas . |
| 10 | Now , two days before he sailed for New York , Mary smuggled him in to see the child . |
| 11 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher cited two different routes : a recommendation of a consultancy from a referral source , i.e. an executive who has come into contact with the headhunter on a previous assignment ; and by direct experience of a particular search firm from the user point of view from a Kingfisher executive who had employed that firm on a previous occasion , before he worked for Kingfisher . |
| 12 | He gave his departmental heads time to get back to their offices before he rang for Hilary Robarts and asked her to come back . |
| 13 | The ambassador returned to the charge at the beginning of April 1950 , just before he departed for visits to Australia and New Zealand before returning to Seoul . |