Example sentences of "before she [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough , Jo leaned over to the driver 's window and said something to someone before she ran up the steps to the house . |
| 2 | Before she ran into the wash basin . |
| 3 | She could n't make out Eileen 's answer but she muttered , ‘ Eejit , is right , ’ before she knocked on the door . |
| 4 | Before she gets into the car , she turns around and thanks me with a squeeze of her hand . |
| 5 | I do n't like , just , I could n't be like Deirdre and , put me overall on and in go in without collecting me thoughts getting myself together Deirdre never arrives till about three minutes before she gets in the door , she 's putting her overall on saying come on ladies , its time were , but she 's putting her overall and on , and they all sit there looking at her and so |
| 6 | Lydia looked at the picture before she looked at the signature . |
| 7 | Although Melody had already said her farewells to Seb , she found time to visit Anna before she left with the others . |
| 8 | Miss Kingsley was a practical woman ; she had spent years housekeeping for her family and was thirty before she left on the first of her journeys to West Africa in 1893 , taking with her boots , blankets and a hot-water bottle . |
| 9 | Beryl gave her some advice before she left on the night flight the following Friday . |
| 10 | She was about to ask if he 'd be back before she left for the night , when the door closed behind him . |
| 11 | A choked cry escaped her before she fell to the ground , her legs no longer able to support her . |
| 12 | Should I lay them on the doorstep and vamoose before she responded to the bell ? |
| 13 | She accepted the farewells of her parents and brothers as if in a dream : her real self seemed to hold aloof from the tearful embraces of her mother , the kisses of her brothers , and her father 's last loving hug before she stepped into the boat to be rowed out across the harbour . |
| 14 | If she stopped to explain , Keith would be gone before she got to the telephone-box . |
| 15 | She was afraid of running out of time before she got to the point . |
| 16 | This is what Lise does in Mother Simone 's kitchen in La FilleMal Gardeé and Cinderella in her kitchen before she dances with the broom . |
| 17 | Did Mary Antoinette sign anything before she went to the guillotine , I wondered . |
| 18 | She 's bright — she was at Bristol University before she went to the secretarial college . |
| 19 | However , in 1989 things started to go all wrong as she developed a hook in the very week before she went to the English at Burnham and Berrow Much of the season , by her high standards , was bitterly disappointing but , by dint of " plugging away " , she began to rediscover her form during the week of the English Intermediate won by Lora Fairclough . |
| 20 | ‘ She must have planned it before she went to the hospital . ’ |
| 21 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 22 | You must have decided to follow her before she went into the school grounds , because otherwise you would n't have opted out of the swimming . |
| 23 | she may have been unconmscious before she went into the water . |
| 24 | She had to get her before she went through the gates and she was thankful for the bright moonlight . |
| 25 | She did n't answer : Nick saw in her face the struggle she always had with herself before she went in the water . |
| 26 | And when , after lunch , she came downstairs in her new outfit , bought from Selfridge 's last week with the money which J. D. O'Connor had paid her for her articles , and with her next two articles in her bag , ready to be handed in to the great man himself before she returned to the rectory to pick up Rose Bailey , whose time off did not begin until four-thirty , both Dr Neil and Matey thought that she looked enchanting . |
| 27 | ‘ My mother , just before she died at the age of fifty . ’ |
| 28 | Shiona pushed the door open and stepped inside , pulling it to again before she tiptoed towards the bed . |
| 29 | As Myeloski switched on the light , he had caught a glimpse of Louise Taylor before she disappeared under the cover . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm still very close to my family , ’ she said before she embarked on the tour . |