Example sentences of "[noun sg] before he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the accused is guilty of theft before he passes the checkout . |
| 2 | He introduces Charlie to ‘ Mortimer Collins 's ‘ Transmigration ’ , and gave him a sketch of the plot before he opened the pages . ’ |
| 3 | And the grooms went round to make sure she was in foal before he took the money . |
| 4 | He knew he had broken his left thigh before he hit the ground . |
| 5 | It increases our range over our present equipment which is very effective but we can actually detect the motorist before he sees the officer on the side of the road . |
| 6 | As a child he had a delicate constitution and started his education at home before he attended the Grammar School from 1786 to 1789 . |
| 7 | He may even have to set up the maul before he hits the tackler . |
| 8 | The County Union is looking into the Boyce Hill boy 's absence and Lockwood will wait for the outcome before he names the squad to take on Hertfordshire in the second match in July . |
| 9 | He had to get to the postman before he reached the cottage . |
| 10 | He was a master butcher before he joined the service , ’ Nicholson explained . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's another kind of acoustic string we make , one my father used to make under the D'Arco name before he sold the company to Martin , and that 's a semi-polished acoustic string , halfway between a round-wound and a flat-wound ; a lot of the old archtop guitar players used to use them for recording . |
| 12 | But the day before he boarded the plane the pleasure of the reunion was tinged with sorrow . |
| 13 | Back at the Barracks Maxim had to wait until after midnight before he had the officers ' mess video machine to himself . |
| 14 | Someone 's turned up who claims that Zoser had a visitor the night before he killed the Zikr . ’ |
| 15 | Being aware of the strict alcohol regulations , I did not object to this , although I did think it rather unfair that a school-friend was obliged to dispose of his soft drink before he entered the ground . |
| 16 | And then he was gone down the stairs , running lightly , for all his limp , and the last which she saw of him was the sandy-blond head before he turned the corner of the first landing . |
| 17 | Mitterrand wrote articles for a Vichy newspaper before he joined the Resistance . |
| 18 | He liked to finish it each morning before he fetched the new day 's papers . |
| 19 | His father was a full back in his professional career before he joined the Northern League circuit as a manager . |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman made a totally false comparison before he made the totally false allegation that I had misled the House . |
| 21 | It looks as though Heseltine secured Walker 's appointment before he left the DoE , in order to have his own man in place . |
| 22 | Our then new young branch secretary came in to sort out our grievance before he left the yard , our grievance was sorted , and I was the new collection steward . |
| 23 | He has changed his position and perhaps there is still time for him to cross the Floor before he leaves the House at the end of this Parliament . |
| 24 | Thus Lacey ( 1970 ) , in his study of a secondary school , had to obtain permission from the chief education officer and the headmaster before he entered the school , as did Burgess ( 1983 ) . |
| 25 | He pulled strongly across into the inshore current , and let it carry him down abreast of the church before he grounded the boat and climbed ashore . |
| 26 | Yet even on this issue we must be cautious : marriage was an irrevocable step ; though death almost as often and as rapidly parted married couples in the twelfth century as it does in the twentieth , a prince might well take careful thought before he threw the dice , just as , even then , a prudent man might spend many years looking for the woman of his choice . |
| 27 | He summoned his courage and said so to the grim-faced man before he left the sick room . |
| 28 | He would feint and leave two or three opponents sprawling or plodding in his wake before he released the ball , unerringly , to either the flying Joe Hulme , who would not even have to pause in his flight , or the absolutely devastating Cliff ( ’ ’ Boy'' ) Bastin , who would take a couple of strides and whip the ball into the net . |
| 29 | If one accepts the needs for a general state of preparedness for the whole province , as would have been the case with Albinus before he removed the greater part of the army to Gaul , then clearly the most important centres would have been included . |
| 30 | ‘ He even smoked his pipe before he did the job . ’ |