Example sentences of "before [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph Parker , before preaching in a village chapel , was overheard to say , ‘ Jesus be near me , very near me , near me all the time ’ . |
| 2 | The MLC expects European pig prices to fall further this summer , before recovering in the autumn , when there are fewer pigs on the market . |
| 3 | So it was a change of kit before jogging in step over to the gymnasium for physical jerks followed by boxing instruction . |
| 4 | When a document has been saved it should be cleared from the screen before typing in a new document and not merely deleted ( which introduces the danger of unknowingly overwriting the file just saved ) . |
| 5 | The 35 million Christmas trees bought this year would have to rot for 30 years before decomposing in dumps that are already overflowing . |
| 6 | COOK 'S NOTE : Soaking the rice before cooking in the measured water helps to produce a fluffier risotto of a richer saffron-yellow colour . |
| 7 | Is it true that before singing in Suede , Brett played the part of Jill in Eastenders ? |
| 8 | ‘ Looking to the future further controls on mercury ought to follow the path it takes before accumulating in the fish . |
| 9 | It was during the inter-regnum of 1907 to 1912 , when Lugard was occupied as governor of Hong Kong before returning in triumph to be Governor-General of a united Nigeria , that the Northern Residents seized their opportunity to move collectively into a position of virtually unassailable independence from the central government . |
| 10 | On the strength of this , the Swiss issued arrest warrants for all the DEA/CIA targets , and before returning in triumph to Paris , Jafaar rounded off his winter 's work by trapping Haser into a highly incriminating recorded conversation about heroin and morphine base shipments . |
| 11 | In Chapters 2 to 10 we take the various constructions in which English adjectives actually appear , and consider the grammatical and interpretative consequences of the intensional patterns which are expressed by those constructions , before returning in the final three chapters to more general issues of syntax . |
| 12 | He later joined the CNES management , before becoming in 1986 the secretary general of the Eureka committee — the French-inspired project for European co-operation in high technologies . |
| 13 | Joan Daniels joined a Medau class at Blackheath in 1956 and started teacher training in 1961 , which she interrupted to have a family , two sons and a daughter before qualifying in 1969 . |
| 14 | It was noted that it bounced only once before exploding in the gully below ! |
| 15 | We flew through much haze before landing in Bahrain to refuel . |
| 16 | The film opened on 2,400 screens across the United States before opening in Britain and the rest of Europe later in the summer . |
| 17 | I hear a number of my hon. Friends saying yes , but I invite the House to reflect cautiously before interfering in what seems to be a small particular in the right of the press to make a fair and accurate report . |
| 18 | Not for long , however , because in the 53rd minute Muir was able to swivel in reaching a cross by Tony Thomas before driving in his 10th goal of the season . |
| 19 | Before driving in a drunken rage to her house , he is said to have told a friend : ‘ If she is there I am going to burn the house down and burn her down too . |
| 20 | He subsequently became a national figure and a wealthy man before dying in poverty . |
| 21 | From humble beginnings in Altarnun , Neville Burnard was to haunt the fashionable salons of London before dying in a Cornish workhouse . |
| 22 | However , she lingered until June 1876 , preserving her mental powers to the last , before dying in Birmingham . |
| 23 | Do you want to be slowly battered to death , before dying in agony ? ’ |
| 24 | He had always been very highly strung and eventually suffered a complete mental and physical breakdown before dying in a private lunatic asylum in Roehampton 2 January 1900 . |
| 25 | The man known as Helvetius might have produced gold which withstood the tests of assayers , but Bernard Trevisan was duped out of a fortune before finally performing the magnum opus , and Thomas Norton prepared the Elixir twice and was twice robbed of it before dying in poverty . |
| 26 | Leavis , a radical socialist before 1950 , turned briefly liberal before adopting in his last years a bitterly conservative stance that favoured no party of state , hating economic growth and the European Community , so that long before his death in 1978 his idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly ; but though always outside religion , he was in no way hostile to it , and admired its moral seriousness . |
| 27 | The result was a reaffirmation of the status of MCC as a senior committee with respect to MMRC ; a recognition that changes in Course regulations must receive approval by MCC before appearing in course documents ; and restoration of the original frequency of MCC meetings . |
| 28 | Preston 's marriage had been ended , as the official record , Polly and his conscience would have it , by his adultery with Carla , rising star of the modern spoiled-brat school of journalism and presenter of Shrews at Ten , a women 's magazine series which Preston had produced and which had achieved a certain dubious fame before ending in tears , tantrums and Preston 's demotion to the God slot . |
| 29 | Joey Bishop , the least known of the Pack , had enjoyed a modest nightclub career as a comedian before serving in the US Army during the war . |
| 30 | He practised as a lawyer , and worked for Republican Senator John Danforth , before serving in 1981-82 as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the Department of Education under President Reagan . |