Example sentences of "before [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I took her there for a last relaxing evening before we threw ourselves into the election campaign . |
| 32 | Before we forget it at the end . |
| 33 | Continuous eruptions created a wilderness of blast and air pockets ; they barely recovered from one sickening jolt before something hurled them in the opposite direction , or the plane stumbled into a vacuum and hit bottom fifty feet down . |
| 34 | And if they died , we us I helping my moni my Mother many at time , to wash them down , before they put them in the coffins . |
| 35 | Not now you 'ave n't … even if you 'ad some before they dumped you in the Mersey , which I suppose you did 'ave … at some time or other like … . ’ |
| 36 | There was just enough time for Bobbie to make herself tidy before they called her into the front room . |
| 37 | One video is not going to stop car crime on its own , but producers believe it may persuade some young people to think twice before they find themselves on the wrong side of the law . |
| 38 | Parties must not give effect to a merger before they notify it to the Commission and for three weeks thereafter . |
| 39 | Voters can cast their votes in the second ballot in the light of that knowledge , and will be similarly well informed before they cast them in the third and fourth . |
| 40 | He had to put archers and javelin-throwers of his own up all the climbable trees before he had them on the run , and lost a dozen men to no purpose . |
| 41 | Mr Gordon was the owner of the Dunkeld business before he sold it to the Tulloch Group in 1988 . |
| 42 | Michael Ramsey took Eden 's letter into the chapel but knew what his answer would be even before he put it on the altar . |
| 43 | Rereading one before he put it in the envelope , it seemed to him to be ill-organized , to have no coherent theme . |
| 44 | But he still had to print out yet another copy of the Capellan regulations about acceptable levels of degradation on axis lock crystals before he let her through the gate . |
| 45 | He had never seen Mandy look contrite before , and he decided , wickedly , to make her suffer a bit before he let her off the hook . |
| 46 | ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’ |
| 47 | You see him , cos he 's , Nick goes can I have a poster ? no , they 're only for erm the prettiest girl in Clapton and he shook my hand and sort of giving it yeah , before he drags me behind the counter ! |
| 48 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 49 | ‘ If you think I 'm standing waiting for a charging animal the size of a tank to reach me … how on earth do you grab its nose before it tramples you into the turf ? |
| 50 | And I 've got no make-up remover — my make-up 's inches thick — it 'll go streaky in the night — if my eyes water , the mascara 'll run down my cheeks — and I 'll have no mirror to check my face before anyone sees me in the morning . |