Example sentences of "before [pron] was [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Wensleydale , Bolton Castle looks across the broad valley to Penhill , which , legend has it , was once the haunt of a fierce giant , while the castle itself is the place where Mary Queen of Scots was placed under house arrest before she was taken to London to be executed . |
| 2 | Paramedics had to give Lesley a litre of plasma in an emergency transfusion and put her on a drip before she was taken to hospital . |
| 3 | There was the man demobbed from his regiment who came to do the garden just as he had before he was called to war . |
| 4 | He eventually established himself as a regular first team player for the Parkhead club before he was transferred to Manchester United in 1973 . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . ’ |
| 6 | ( Unfortunately , however , he would not have long to play before he was turned to spaghetti . |
| 7 | Edward , given a private room , discovered the problem first hand : it took twenty minutes before he raised the operator , and another ten before he was talking to Flight Lieutenant Benson . |
| 8 | At some stage Squibb became an ardent Fifth Monarchist — certainly before he was nominated to Barebone 's Parliament in 1653 as a member for Middlesex . |
| 9 | Mr Koc had been earning 50p a day doing winter work on a building site in the Turkish capital before he was taken to London . |
| 10 | Mr Koc had been earning 50p a day doing winter work on a building site in the Turkish capital before he was taken to London . |
| 11 | After the defendant 's Ford Fiesta crashed , Scott had to be restrained before he was taken to hospital for treatment . |
| 12 | Doctor Teesdale visited the condemned man in prison once or twice during the week before he was put to death . |
| 13 | Duduc had been given lands at Congresbury and Banwell in Somerset and a monasterium in Gloucester before he was promoted to Wells , and another royal priest , Stigand , received the new church at Assandun and became a major figure under Edward the Confessor , eventually ( and illegally ) holding the great sees of Winchester and Canterbury in plurality . |
| 14 | It is suggestive , for example , that in Copernicus 's native Poland , a sun-centered cosmology was taught in Protestant schools many years before it was taught to Catholics . |
| 15 | We do , however , know that tea was valued and enjoyed in China and Japan for many centuries , long before it was introduced to India , Ceylon and Africa . |
| 16 | In March 1991 the European Court obliged the Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo to repay some US$500,000,000 in state loans made during the mid-1980s shortly before it was sold to Fiat . |
| 17 | The Lusaka casualty was originally owned by Pan American and had accumulated some 54 000 flying hours with that company before it was sold to Dan Air , and then a further 2000 flying hours were added before the accident occurred . |