Example sentences of "[verb] before [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 One witness claimed a shotgun was brandished before police arrived at the scene .
2 One witness claimed a shotgun had been brandished before police arrived at the scene .
3 Twenty six year old Christopher Gore appeared before magistrates charged with the double killing.Ken Goodwin reports .
4 Rain joined him in the doorway but there was no time to speak before Cobalt splashed through the puddle to them .
5 The case went before the Bishop three times when John Heryng pleaded that he had already been accounted before auditors appointed by the Bishop and that the account was in possession of John Ie Baker , now churchwarden .
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