Example sentences of "the [noun sg] before they " in BNC.
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| 1 | A male streaker ran on , jumped the stumps , and wondered what to do next without being quite as perplexed as England 's batsmen , and while four policemen carted his away , and the oh-so-clever scoreboard operators put runs on the board before they were even completed , Ramprakash creamed Mushtaq through the covers as a prelude to one of the most anguished dismissals of the series . |
| 2 | The people had never heard preaching like this before , and so they embraced the teaching before they had time to become used to it and ‘ Gospel-hardened ’ as had happened to the people of Bridgnorth . |
| 3 | Of those who know the story before they thrust |
| 4 | This will free people from thinking they need to know the future before they prophesy . |
| 5 | Most young drivers have spent very little time behind the wheel before they pass their test and in many cases , they 're the ones at fault when accidents happen . |
| 6 | Galloping into town in their long prairie coats and dusty stetsons , with guns blazing and yelling like madmen , they would demoralize the opposition before they even reached the money . |
| 7 | Sally sat down hard on them , forcing her legs together , but as usual in the end he won and she retrieved the panties from the floor , pushing them behind her on the seat before they were trampled underfoot . |
| 8 | They must have all walked out on the movie before they saw how the tale ends . |
| 9 | Firmly clutching her hand he slowed , and Frere arced around them on still skates so that he made a sweeping circle on the ice before they came , breathless , to a halt . |
| 10 | The bank require ‘ a fresh voice ’ in the management before they 'll bail us out . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ NCP is looking to the council to put the job right as the council approved the work before they paid the contractor . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ NCP is looking to the council to put the job right as the council approved the work before they paid the contractor . ’ |
| 13 | Let's just hope the German cops get hold of Nicholson and the girl before they cause any more trouble . |
| 14 | His masked accomplice allegedly Walker , was also armed with a gun and shots , probably blank , were fired at the ceiling before they ran out empty-handed . |
| 15 | and er sh , you know the test before they could become officers they set captain set the table , you see the and they have this food that they know how , how to use the cutlery , this was one of the tests of being an officer . |
| 16 | Outside Sigarup and Kalchu started to unpack the lukals , slitting open the stitching at the top with a knife and tipping out the maize to dry in the sun before they stored it away in wooden chests and cylindrical clay grain vats . |
| 17 | The requirement that there be a real possibility of a breach of the peace before they act is rarely subject to close judicial scrutiny . |
| 18 | As to the argument that , in order for the duty to take action to arise , the breach of the peace must be ‘ imminent , ’ the Court cited the opinion of Lord Parker C.J. to the effect that the police must anticipate ‘ a real , not a remote , possibility ’ of a breach of the peace before they are justified in taking preventive action . |
| 19 | This is a far cry from the days when increases in national income were committed by the conference before they were generated and the economy 's commanding heights were deemed to be heavy , smokestack industries . |
| 20 | In the moment before they returned , Nicholas spoke . |
| 21 | It would be a shame to undo the wrapping before they travelled . |
| 22 | This was perceptive and she was rewarded by a brief display of her daughter 's old impulsiveness , Sally-Anne kissing her mother fervently on the cheek before they joined Papa in the drawing-room . |
| 23 | Some had floundered right across the room before they had expired . |
| 24 | Then she hurried from the room before they could rise and trickle down her cheeks . |
| 25 | The Saunders fell in love with the outside before they even crossed the threshold . |
| 26 | Shaw , Black and Lulu all cheekily carved their own slices of the cake before they reached the matronly age of eighteen . |
| 27 | The most dramatic feature about the genes mutated so as to cause muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis , however , is that they were discovered by reverse genetics — neither dystrophin nor cystic fibrosis transmembrane receptor were known to exist in the body before they were discovered by Kunkel and Tsui respectively . |
| 28 | In London , the Old Kent Road and Anerley Schools for the Deaf which were both occupied by civil defence and military authorities at the time were also substantially damaged and needed major repairs after the war before they could be reoccupied . |
| 29 | ‘ The lads were joking that I would be back in the team before they got their hands on the trophy , ’ said McGuinness . |
| 30 | The reason for this is that if you put the female pupae in the tube before they hatch to the adult stage , you will ensure that females mate only with the type of male you put in the tube . |