Example sentences of "[adv] before [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before getting in the trucks , I had wandered down to the rooms where the crippled legionnaires lived . |
| 2 | He looked up at me and grinned quickly before hunching over the controls again . |
| 3 | ‘ Somewhere , ’ he replied and switched the kettle on before rummaging through the drawers . |
| 4 | He swam around in the cold plunge for five minutes to close his pores , then towelled himself vigorously before jumping on the scales in the rest room . |
| 5 | Ms Alexander , calling on Mrs Bottomley to meet a delegation of parents , said : ‘ Although it was Beverly Allitt who committed these crimes , my concern is that the hospital management failed to spot her character defects , failed to supervise her and failed to act on numerous clues , and delayed inexcusably before calling in the police . |
| 6 | Gorblimey , even the beer thinks twice before going into the Seamen 's Rest . |
| 7 | Yet before deciding on the implications of this it is worth examining the texts of the other jurists . |
| 8 | In 1992 , despite the deepening recession , the same companies i.e. before allowing for the Magazines loss , earned a profit of £733,500 or £193,000 more than in 1991 . |