Example sentences of "before she [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORMER US Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan , who are both staying at Claridge 's in London 's Mayfair , had a private meeting with Lady Thatcher before she left for a visit to Indonesia . |
| 2 | And then , because she could n't bear to quarrel with him the night before she left for a new life , she said , ‘ I 'm wearing your mother 's brooch , Fran . |
| 3 | She was about to ask if he 'd be back before she left for the night , when the door closed behind him . |
| 4 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 5 | The windows were mere arrow-slits now blocked by wooden shutters ; the air was so damp with a pervasive chill that Queen Margaret insisted fires be lit in her rooms before she retired for the night . |