Example sentences of "before he could [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His commercial pride badly wounded , Mercer fought off the criticism , but had to endure a harsh winter watching his team struggle in the knowledge that it would be many years before he could contemplate the fire-side warmth of his own undersoil heating . |
| 2 | ‘ This one , ’ she ordered briefly and was off again before he could settle the awkward burden conveniently in his arms . |
| 3 | He was ridden down before he could reach the comparative safety of his parsonage at Yateley . |
| 4 | But before he could select the right tone and story-line for these particular circumstances , there was a diversion . |
| 5 | What need had he , John-William Dallam , for a grandson , he thought grimly , when he would be dead and gone , by the look of things , long before he could teach the little chap how to run the mill ? |
| 6 | Unable to ‘ hit the bottle ’ , Gary had to take the official doctor home with him before he could provide the required sample . |
| 7 | For Lothar , the Attigny meeting had become irrelevant : Charles should be finished off quickly before he could implement the now-obvious policy of joining forces with Louis the German . |