Example sentences of "before he [vb past] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So is it , was it , was she on dr erm drugs before he came to the flats or is it |
| 2 | Jack walked through the quiet roads for almost an hour before he came to the bottom of Monument Hill . |
| 3 | Before he came to the department last month , Peckham was director of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation in London , which coordinates numerous research institutes . |
| 4 | Maxim asked carefully : ‘ Did he see you before he went to the country , when he first came back from Germany ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You think Newley checked back with him before he went to the cottage ? ’ |
| 6 | He had been Private Secretary to my uncle when he was Viceroy , and later Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier of India before he went to the Sudan . |
| 7 | Before he went to the hospital , John Coffin had had a telephone call from his current girlfriend . |
| 8 | Stories vary widely , some say he took off his apron and laid down his knife before he went to the Bank to tackle the Manager . |
| 9 | It seemed forever before he got to the centre of the stage . |
| 10 | ‘ Pint of Bass , please , ’ I ordered , so that it was half-pulled before he got to the bar . |
| 11 | In newsomes situation I would have maybe challenged him before he got to the box and maybe given a foul away in the process . |
| 12 | They always saw his jokes before he got to the punch line . |
| 13 | He stopped the chauffeur wearily before he got to the Book . |
| 14 | But before he got to the newsagent 's he met , coming out of Fawley Road with a small boy and smaller girl , his first cousin once removed , Tina Darne . |
| 15 | It had been four months altogether before he returned to the Works , by which time Andrew Jones had been installed in the showrooms as assistant salesman . |
| 16 | Twenty minutes elapsed before he returned to the bridge where Talbot was now alone : as the ship was no longer under way , Harrison had retired to his Mess . |
| 17 | The vicar managed to catch him before he fell to the floor , and he was removed to his home , where he died on the Friday morning , 8 September . |
| 18 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 19 | He started it while he was living with his mother in Wimbledon , before he moved to the School . |
| 20 | His first transfer to Tottenham split two spells with Millwall before he moved to the Dell , where his no-nonsense approach and disciplinary problems earned him a hard-man reputation . |
| 21 | Probably the clue to the most plausible explanation — and the one put forward by the man most likely to know , his jockey Dick Francis — lies in the fact that just before he slid to the ground Devon Loch pricked his ears , in the way that a horse might do just before jumping a fence — or on suddenly hearing an unfamiliar noise . |