Example sentences of "hours before he " in BNC.
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| 1 | LORD Young , the former Trade Secretary , wrote to British Aerospace asking it to choose how to hide the £38 million ‘ sweeteners ’ from Parliament and the European Commission 48 hours before he announced the sale of Rover , confidential letters revealed yesterday . |
| 2 | It was Nofomela who broke the scandal by confessing to his part in the Mxenge killing , 24 hours before he was due to hang for an unrelated murder of a white farmer . |
| 3 | Mr Mekgwe was reportedly last seen in the company of three ANC men a few hours before he was due to give evidence . |
| 4 | It was some hours before he had his wish . |
| 5 | It took four hours before he could move , during which time the lifeless body of Ewan Famber that was , leaked fluids off the white table on to the ceraplas floor . |
| 6 | It was two hours before he felt sufficiently recovered to stop at a phone box and report in . |
| 7 | He had three hours before he need set off . |
| 8 | ‘ Because there were two freak news-leaks in the forty-eight hours before he went . |
| 9 | ‘ Except those missing forty-eight hours before he showed up on a roadside , ’ said Morton Stannard . |
| 10 | It 's a few hours before he 's due onstage at the Tower Theater in Houston and Mister C is telling me , in a roundabout way , what his name stands for . |
| 11 | It was almost two hours before he saw movement — and then it was fast and furious . |
| 12 | The 27-year-old former Army officer tried to kill himself less than 24 hours before he was due in court again accused of murdering his parents at their home in Jersey . |
| 13 | Mansell stunned the Grand Prix race world when he revealed that he was packing up only four hours before he was due to start in his 178th Grand Prix . |
| 14 | Lazio 's doctor Claudio Bartolini explained that it will be 24 hours before he can make a true assessment of the damage . |
| 15 | Hours before he died , the King wrote to the woman he looked on as a mother |
| 16 | ELVIS PRESLEY 'S last letter , written a few hours before he died , was to an elderly woman he looked on almost as a mother . |
| 17 | Nick , 27 , had his appendix out just eighteen hours before he was due to marry . |
| 18 | A LONELY widower died in a blaze at his home yesterday — just hours before he was due to be evicted . |
| 19 | The S.M.O. was of the opinion that this was the third , not second night , and that for twenty-four hours before he was knocked down the patch of consolidation had started forming in Bill Francis 's lung . |
| 20 | Newman recalled briefly his experience at The Nag 's Head a few hours before he ended up in hospital . |
| 21 | He had hours before he had to get home . |
| 22 | ‘ Now that you 've got him all excited , it 'll be hours before he can get off to sleep . ’ |
| 23 | Harold would acknowledge her politely and indicate that it would not be many hours before he was going up . |
| 24 | If he did n't get away now , he 'd only be waylaid by the others , there 'd be more whiskies , and it would be all hours before he 'd get to his lodgings and the letter from Elizabeth . |
| 25 | Viscount Lewisham was thus being asked to comment on a distasteful message from the colonies about seven hours before he would receive it . |
| 26 | Then , knowing it would be hours before he woke , he got up and fetched his wei chi set , smoothing the cloth ‘ board ’ out on the floor before him then setting the bowls to either side , the white stones to his left , the black to his right . |
| 27 | The fatal injury was a blow to the head , not a very heavy blow but the deceased had taken a substantial amount of alcohol in the hours before he suffered the injury , and the effect of alcohol is to increase the flow of blood to the brain so that , et cetera , et cetera , et cetera . |
| 28 | The cold of the ground slowly seeped through Riven 's bedroll to chill his back , and he edged closer to the fire , sick of the aches in his bones and counting out in his mind the hours before he had to go on watch . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps , at least several hours before he was killed . ’ |
| 30 | Fred Goodyear was so shocked that it was more than eight hours before he raised the alarm . |