Example sentences of "before they [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice is set to go up in the local regsistrar 's office on Thursday , just 48 hours before they walk down the aisle . |
| 2 | Maybe someone will draw curtains across the frosted glass before they turn up the disco tape . |
| 3 | New faces are arriving all the time and in some cases actors make a quick start with a first job or they may have a relatively long wait before they get off the mark . |
| 4 | They must have all walked out on the movie before they saw how the tale ends . |
| 5 | It seemed ages before they sorted out the time . |
| 6 | Some of them will be practising meditation exercises before they swoop down the ramp from a platform to begin their few minutes of profound torture . |
| 7 | Our advice is to take time to find out what they really want before they give away the sites to the private investors , because when they have done this , they ca n't erm participate in what is really developing . |
| 8 | When Galvone leapt aboard and seated himself beside his chief Hauser made his unsettling comment before they started up the rotors . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 11 | Small children scrambled for the scattered coins before they washed down the drains . |