Example sentences of "before [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crush a sugar lump and add it to the brandy in which the raisins were soaked ; warm the mixture , set it alight and drizzle it over the pudding just before bringing to table . |
| 2 | They have precious little in common , except that they both worked in the construction industry before journeying to London . |
| 3 | Another must is the trip to Achensee , Austria 's largest Alpine lake , before journeying to Rattenberg to view some of its world famous crystal . |
| 4 | Bay Green , who spent 17 years with Kleinwort Benson before defecting to Hill Samuel merchant bank as head of corporate finance , is back with Kleinwort , this time with a seat on the board . |
| 5 | Platt made a flying visit to Birmingham yesterday to announce a new sponsorship deal with Brymon European Airways before re-turning to Italy for a Juventus friendly tonight . |
| 6 | Here you can shop for bargain priced wines , leather goods and other souvenirs before returning to Innsbruck , the capital of the Tirol . |
| 7 | And he said Mirror publisher Robert Maxwell would have got him his £55,000-a-year job back if the tycoon had not drowned before returning to London . |
| 8 | He virtually commuted between London and Sydney , his Australian birthplace , where he would stay for months at a time with his parents , making award-winning films , before returning to London in his safari suit , sun-bleached and fit . |
| 9 | Fly to Delhi for your last night before returning to London . |
| 10 | The play takes him to New York , where he does some more drifting , before returning to London , older but still young , wiser but still carefree . |
| 11 | Later , Burgess was to tell friends that he had only intended to accompany Maclean as far as Prague before returning to London . |
| 12 | She also worked for Walker Books in New York , before returning to London to handle foreign rights for the Watts Group . |
| 13 | Throughout his tour , which also took in visits to Denmark and Ireland before returning to London on April 26 for further talks with business leaders en route for Johannesburg , de Klerk stressed that foreign investment was needed to underpin his political reforms . |
| 14 | Before returning to Cardiff as chief librarian in 1884 he developed journalistic skills , contributing a series ‘ About Books ’ to the Doncaster Chronicle , 1880–4 . |
| 15 | The royal couple moved on on Oct. 3 to Indonesia , before returning to Japan on Oct. 6 . |
| 16 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 17 | Starting off in Vienna , the cars will travel through Italy , Switzerland , Croatia and Slovenia before returning to Austria a fortnight later . |
| 18 | He worked at St Mary 's Hospital as assistant physician and lecturer in pathology and in 1866 graduated MD before returning to University College as professor of pathological anatomy in 1867 , becoming a physician to University College Hospital in 1878 . |
| 19 | In 1858–9 he was in the service of the Admiralty , before returning to south Wales , where for ten years he was engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Sirhowy Tramroad , which he converted into a standard railway . |
| 20 | 45133 and 50015 will then move on for a short period to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway before returning to Butterley . |
| 21 | Extend your stay and travel , by air , to Cairo , for a 3 night stay , before returning to Luxor for a final 4 nights to unwind . |
| 22 | Born in New York of German parents , he attended art school in Germany before returning to America in the 1950s . |
| 23 | The exhibition travels to Leiden in August , back to Spain and Portugal before returning to New Zealand in 1993 . |
| 24 | The course runs parallel to Karon Beach in the region of Chalon Bay before returning to Phuket in a loose figure of eight . |
| 25 | In a preliminary council , Joseph received miles ' that his people could winter with Miles on the Yellowstone before returning to Lapwai . |
| 26 | For a start , the yachts are going round the world in the opposite direction , against the prevailing winds and currents , heading first for Rio de Janeiro , then Hobart and finally Mauritius , before returning to Southampton in April or May 1993 . |
| 27 | Before returning to court this morning the 60 year old was contemplating the prospect of a possible jail sentence . |
| 28 | The judge has asked for a unanimous verdict and the jury will now spend the night in a hotel before returning to court to continue their deliberations . |
| 29 | Before returning to Denmark , he touched at Sandwich to put ashore hostages given to his father , having first cut off their hands , ears and noses . |
| 30 | She had cleared for Antwerp , where she spent a couple of days , and had then gone to West Africa , calling at several ports before returning to Antwerp . |