Example sentences of "before [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Wrexham Maelor Coun Harold Taylor says Clwyd county highways department must repair the bridge before someone falls into the river and is swept away . |
| 2 | Before I knocked on the Ass . |
| 3 | One roadie said I should have thought about it before I accepted in the first place . ’ |
| 4 | Before I reveal to the distinguished company gathered here this morning some of Councillor good works , I feel it incumbent upon me and appropriate to pay tribute to Councillor , our Lord Mayor , who died in office in April and I offer my sincere condolences to Mrs from my party and the Council . |
| 5 | He went on , ‘ Matt lived here alone for years before I came on the scene . |
| 6 | No , I was told before I came on the course , you 're going on the course to learn to make maximum use out of it , you 're not going on an almighty second holiday and |
| 7 | ‘ The fire had been lit before I came to the office . |
| 8 | . Sir I am the present overseer but these things was before I came to the Parish . |
| 9 | ‘ A particularly heartening statistic when I checked the figures before I came to the Netherlands was that this market — with a relatively small population of only 15 million inhabitants — continues to be the biggest export market for Wedgwood in Continental Europe , ’ he said . |
| 10 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 11 | I refer to Burnley , whose council I led before I came to the House . |
| 12 | I was changing , of course , before I went to the Meeting House . |
| 13 | This happened just before I went to the first gay liberation meeting in London . |
| 14 | Well it , it was n't funny that day before I went to the that ear |
| 15 | no , no , no this is the minute which was posted to you before I went to the States |
| 16 | An event that stands out occurred at Easter 1922 , just before I went into the Boys ' School . |
| 17 | I did n't think before I went into the recruiting office and became a marine , and I did n't think now . |
| 18 | I am particularly afraid of strange dentists , so before I went into the RAF I made sure my teeth were in order . |
| 19 | I wo n't read it all out , but it was given to me before I went into the Air Force . |
| 20 | I took them off before I went through the floor into the dock . ’ |
| 21 | Before I went through the door , I looked back — at all the life that existed only here in the Star Zoo , and in no other place in all the Galaxy ! |
| 22 | Fortunately an assistant stopped mew before I went through the roof . |
| 23 | ‘ Before I went in the ring , I had to spend half a day just cooling down my adrenaline . |
| 24 | That 's before I went in the army . |
| 25 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |
| 26 | Before I comment on the Bill in any detail , I must declare a possible future interest with British Rail in activities that are unrelated to my parliamentary duties . |
| 27 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
| 28 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 29 | And so , however unwillingly , and before I return to the dark-haired girl in the coffee bar , I feel obliged to describe now an almost incredible tale about my former friend Robert . |
| 30 | And so , however unwillingly , and before I return to the dark-haired girl in the coffee bar , I feel obliged to describe now an almost incredible tale about my former friend Robert . ’ |