Example sentences of "before [pers pn] [vb past] up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I the car I had before I gave up the company car was a Mercedes Sports S L |
| 2 | I try to see Oreste , or used to before I gave up the torture , but all I see is a baby , fat and dimpled … ’ |
| 3 | Rodi 's second husband Gordon , 64 , died two months before she picked up the cheque from Bergerac star John Nettles . |
| 4 | Well not last week but the week before we went up the Harvester . |
| 5 | The writer may well have assumed that most book buyers already know of the existence of a writer called Ernest Hemingway , and even if they did not before they picked up the book , they would already have seen his name on the cover before turning to read this biographical sketch inside . |
| 6 | Shortly before he took up the study of genetics , the American biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan wrote a book , Evolution and Adaptation ( 1903 ) , arguing that evolution was governed solely by the production of saltations , and had nothing to do with adapting the species to its environment . |
| 7 | He pouches the ball with the eye of a major league outfielder , and that is because he was a player of some repute before he gave up the bat for the bag at the start of the 1970s . |
| 8 | He leant on the car and lit a cigarette , puffing at it before he picked up the radio again . |