Example sentences of "[noun] before [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two robbers banged on the side of the Security Express van , spread-eagled one of the guards before shooting him in the legs . |
| 2 | He then returned to the bedroom and carefully folded his socks , underwear , jeans and other casual wear before putting them in a drawer by the bed . |
| 3 | The hypothesis can be tested , in an attempt to falsify it , by plugging the ears of bats before releasing them into the test laboratory . |
| 4 | They even coloured some of the mixture with saffron to make a ‘ yolk ’ , then they carefully filled the shells before baking them in the ashes of the cooking fire . |
| 5 | The islands had always been a smugglers ' paradise , and had proved a perfect place to stockpile cocaine before running it across the narrow Straits of Florida to the waiting American markets . |
| 6 | Back in 1933 work was begun on a racer for the 1934 MacRobertson race from London to Melbourne and Jacquelin Cochran got as far as Bucharest before damaging it in a landing accident . |
| 7 | She had recently killed some of Buddie 's hens and turkeys by gripping their necks between her teeth and shaking them violently from side to side before throwing them into the air . |
| 8 | Most reckon that , with the holding in Hanson 's balance sheet as a fixed asset , Lord Hanson will probably hold on for maybe 18 months before placing it with an alternative international predator . |
| 9 | A private motorist who ‘ clocks ’ his car before selling it to a car dealer , may well find that he is guilty under section 23 , since it may well be his act which causes the car dealer to commit an offence under section 1 , Olgiersson v. Kitching ( 1986 D.C. ) . |
| 10 | He had also torn off the copyright mark from the greeting card before sending it to the Italian artisans who made the sculptures . |
| 11 | It was the RSPCA 's intention to try and sedate the animals before taking them to a sanctuary . |
| 12 | It is worth discussing your child 's needs in detail and having a few rehearsal sessions before committing yourself to a job . |
| 13 | When you remove food from the freezer , do n't leave it in a warm atmosphere or allow it to come into contact with unclean hands , surfaces or equipment before returning it to the freezer — you will be at risk of freezing in any contamination . |
| 14 | We followed a stream up Salubrious Passage before squeezing ourselves through a small twisting passage to bring us back above ground . |
| 15 | Being a temp gives you a good chance to try out different types of work before committing yourself to a permanent job , and also to size up the different companies . |
| 16 | Stonier and Conlin point out that , " A word processor allows the student the opportunity of correcting their own work before presenting it to the teacher as a finished product " . |
| 17 | A SEX monster battered a 14-year-old girl before dumping her in a freezing gravel pit and leaving her to drown . |
| 18 | ‘ You had indeed , ’ Feargal said with an ironic little bow before seating himself in the armchair opposite his mother . |
| 19 | Now PC Dave Fishwick has urged residents to check identification before allowing anyone into the house . |
| 20 | ‘ We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 21 | We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 22 | The medics met the plane and gave him plasma etc right there in the radio room before transporting him to the hospital . |
| 23 | He had grown up in Weston-super-Mare and had been working in local radio in Bristol before joining us in the mid 1970s . |
| 24 | Now he was naked too beside her and making pantomime bows to his guests before launching himself into the night . |
| 25 | Why most pop music is rubbish ( he will often play only seconds of a record before ripping it off the turntable ) . |
| 26 | As I have pointed out , AIB require a very high standard of professional knowledge either as a pilot or as an engineer before accepting someone as an investigator . |
| 27 | Both men were making angry gestures and at one point Fernand brandished the crowbar under Gebrec 's nose before flinging it to the ground in a melodramatic gesture of apparent capitulation . |
| 28 | ‘ A managing director of one of my companies is a great believer in studying the star signs of applicants before employing them in the company . |
| 29 | Format and print is an excellent utility for adding margins , headers and page numbers to a standard text file before sending it to the printer . |
| 30 | Russell Kulsrud of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ( PPPL ) believes that by polarising the deuterium atoms before feeding them into a fusion device , it may be possible to accelerate the rate at which D-T reactions occur . |