Example sentences of "before he [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nearly a mile of steep climbing , he knew , before he would emerge on to the open heathland where The Drover 's Arms stood . |
| 2 | Here , the wife is left exposed to the monk 's attentions when the husband shuts himself up in his counting-house ( 75 – 88 ) ; he delivers his wife a lecture on his " " curious bisynesse " " when she asks him to come down to eat ( 224 – 48 ) ; he must settle his affairs in Paris before he can settle back at home after his trip to Bruges ( 365 – 9 ) . |
| 3 | The ghost plot — Swayze gets killed , and before he can go off to heaven he has to save his girlfriend Demi Moore from the bad guys — is really just a gimmick , there to dress up the standard Swayze package with a few special effects and an impossibly sentimental ending . |
| 4 | He 'll have to pay a fine before he can pick up for it , this is Joanne , I do n't but he must he must er be up to something . |
| 5 | But he did say that er it 'll take three weeks before he can get back to me about sending me to the Law |
| 6 | Grayling reckons that he has about another two years of research to do before he can come up with a conclusive report . |
| 7 | Before he could head off for the dustbin , Elinor gripped his wrist firmly . |
| 8 | Faldo had to wait until the ‘ 89 Masters before he could catch up with Lyle and maybe the picture of him on the 11th green , the second hole of a sudden-death play-off with Scott Hoch , encapsulates Europe 's men in the majors in the Eighties . |
| 9 | Before he could come up with a satisfactory formulation they were joined by Georgina , the chairman 's daughter by his first marriage . |
| 10 | Anyway , Reverend William Lee , his son and his brother , went over to France to see if Henry , King Henry of France could help him er but before he could get through to the court there King Henry died and then William Lee died without seeing his machine come to any sort of commercial fruition . |
| 11 | From Friday evening to Tuesday , he was at Shamley Green , and although he tried to avoid visiting people or seeing his neighbours his weekends were often occupied , which meant that a fortnight might elapse before he could get on with his own work . |
| 12 | He was dead before he could get back to his car for the antidote . ’ |
| 13 | He had , moreover , the trials of business to look forward to before he could get back to work . |