Example sentences of "they before " in BNC.

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1 The only real clue to spotting them is that every homestead has electricity and if you see the buildings , you must find the wires going to them before making an approach .
2 Since colours can vary slightly , it 's important to buy all the tiles you need at once to ensure that they 're from the same batch ; it 's also a good idea to unpack and mix them before fixing them , to even out any colour variations .
3 A plaque in the Bharatpur marshes records the November day in 1938 that the then Viceroy of India , Lord Linlithgow , bagged 4,373 wildfowl , 3,044 of them before lunch .
4 There 's a thread running through them , but you have to sit down and listen to them before that sinks in . ’
5 But he said the people must be well educated on this and everything must be explained to them before any steps are taken .
6 But he said the people must be well educated on this and everything must be explained to them before any steps are taken . ’
7 They usually need to be cooked and I use them a great deal with beans and in Mexican dishes , slicing them before cooking .
8 My father hunted them before me and his father before him .
9 They will not wear their knuckles out knocking at the West 's door , so long as they feel it will be opened to them before too long .
10 They have an influence on an intellectual scene which encompasses a whole host of lesser thinkers , and they act as focuses for movements of thought which find powerful expression in them before passing on , often changed , or with added force .
11 Most bereaved people will talk of being quite sure they have seen the person who has died walking along the street and have called out to them before realizing that it could not be so .
12 He knew that Mariana was watching as he stripped the shotguns , oiling them before reloading the magazines .
13 For those who survived , the heady talk and dreams , the vision of a global system and of revolutionaries without national allegiances , all that had inspired them before 1917 , must have seemed as remote and irrelevant as childhood .
14 There were reports that senior ministers were insisting that if she failed to secure outright victory , she should consult them before deciding to carry on .
15 He hated them before the war and he hates them now with a depth you gentlemen here would find hard to understand . ’
16 ‘ And then having to remember to unearth them before the day !
17 If pleasant thoughts and memories come into your mind , look at them and enjoy them before returning to your chosen image .
18 During the Falklands War , Mrs Thatcher was punctilious about keeping full Cabinet informed about major developments , and consulted them before implementing the bigger decisions .
19 If a girl had two parents still at home , she had to get written permission from both of them before performing .
20 If you introduce them before a year old , do not give them every day .
21 At least one species of African bushbaby , for example , cups its hands and urinates upon them before setting off into the African night .
22 ‘ I would n't dream of taking them before a race . ’
23 ‘ I did n't know any of them before yesterday .
24 Horses can not store electrolytes , so giving them before a event will not be beneficial .
25 A confirmed five-string user , John agrees to try the Pedulla , adding that he 's really no fan of Bartolini pickups , having tried them before and found them not to his taste .
26 Mrs Fletcher was bending over the last of a bed of weeds , hoping finally to rid herself of them before her husband returned from the potato harvesting .
27 It is worth pointing out that virtually all of the current best model helicopter pilots learned to fly them before the existence of a practical gyrostabiliser .
28 No fewer than seven of his siblings had died there — five of them before their first birthday .
29 Notwithstanding , my lords , I here deliver my son — and his brother 's life with him — into your hands , and of you shall I require them before God and man .
30 Zhukov had posed the photograph with two of his ‘ models ’ , then meticulously superimposed the face of Mikhail Vologsky upon one of them before touching up and re-photographing the composite .
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