Example sentences of "before he [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to put archers and javelin-throwers of his own up all the climbable trees before he had them on the run , and lost a dozen men to no purpose . |
| 2 | Mr Gordon was the owner of the Dunkeld business before he sold it to the Tulloch Group in 1988 . |
| 3 | In the League five years passed before he sent anyone off a Bury player for thumping a spectator . |
| 4 | Michael Ramsey took Eden 's letter into the chapel but knew what his answer would be even before he put it on the altar . |
| 5 | Rereading one before he put it in the envelope , it seemed to him to be ill-organized , to have no coherent theme . |
| 6 | But he still had to print out yet another copy of the Capellan regulations about acceptable levels of degradation on axis lock crystals before he let her through the gate . |
| 7 | He had never seen Mandy look contrite before , and he decided , wickedly , to make her suffer a bit before he let her off the hook . |
| 8 | And he went to the bank and he got him three thousand pound ready and he got this beautiful car , he had n't it eighteen months before he wrapped it round a tree . |
| 9 | ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’ |