Example sentences of "before she [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a promotional leaflet from some early tour-Gittel-plus-eight as the singer with Cy ‘ Silvertones ’ and the band , before she paused for motherhood and he decided that wedding and bar mitzvah bookings put more bread on the family table than life on the road . |
| 2 | Arty would see that she got his letter before she left for Seapark . |
| 3 | Before she left for Strasbourg , Mrs Thatcher refused to budge in her hostility to the EC Social Charter and the Delors plan for economic and monetary union . |
| 4 | Before she left for Strasbourg , Mrs Thatcher refused to budge in her hostility to the EC Social Charter and the Delors plan for economic and monetary union . |
| 5 | This morning , before she left for work at eight o'clock , her mother had been friendly , quite chatty in fact . |
| 6 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |
| 7 | Besides Pamela Chrimes , Nadia Nerina had been one of the company 's early members ; John had known her briefly in Johannesburg when they were both schoolchildren , and they met again in Cape Town just before she left for Britain in October 1945 . |
| 8 | She had quite a long and happy chat with the ‘ witch ’ before she left for home . |
| 9 | It was the night before she left for her trip . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Her husband took her back to Lynne where , unaccountably to the reader , since she had paid all her debts before she left for Jerusalem , she found herself heavily in debt . |
| 13 | Anne ran down to tell Sarah before she left for work , and was surprised by how calmly her friend took the news . |
| 14 | Dorothy Jordan [ q.v. ] appeared throughout his management , giving her last performance in Ryde before she left for France in self-imposed exile . |
| 15 | She closed her book ; her papa had given it to her before she left for England and she blushed a little on remembering how short she had been with him when he had handed it over to her . |
| 16 | She was about to ask if he 'd be back before she left for the night , when the door closed behind him . |
| 17 | Before she left for London , Cllr Cooper said : ‘ I am astounded to have been chosen . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ What 's wrong with her ? ’ asked Juliet , remembering the thin , dark-haired woman who had arrived on a stretcher just before she went for her coffee break . |
| 20 | 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 . |