Example sentences of "[noun sg] before [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual practice , therefore , is to take each question individually and mark that one question on every script before going on to the next question . |
| 2 | Mr Devlin is the son of a surgeon , and was educated at Dulwich College before moving on to the London School of Economics where he graduated with a BA in modern history . |
| 3 | First they gather information about their neighbourhood before coming back to the school to translate their ideas , ( in best Blue Peter fashion ) with glue , cloth , cigarette packets , and other recyclable materials , into a colourful collage clock . |
| 4 | Why did it feel so right to have Luke stroke his hand along the curve of her thigh , to feel it slide up over her hip and dip into the hollow of her waist before moving on to the fullness of her breast ? |
| 5 | He shot a last , quick glance at the girl before turning back to the Princess . |
| 6 | Good team spirit was built up during lunch before heading out to the second round . |
| 7 | making a brief but dazzling comeback before crashing on to the spikes of despair once more when John fell to his death from a lofty scaffold , and history repeated itself |
| 8 | Make it a rule always to check with the scorekeeper before going on to the area . |
| 9 | Nobles attending the court were ordered to go first to the apartments of Dara Shukoh and there make their morning obeisance before going on to the Diwan-i-khas to greet Shah Jehan . |
| 10 | He was also the most relaxed of batsmen , often having been asleep in the dressing-room before going out to the middle . |
| 11 | PRESTWICK 's David Gourlay , jun , the first Scot in action in yesterday 's opening day of the £140,000 Midland Bank World Indoor Championship , survived an off-green setback before moving through to the second round with a three sets to one win over past UK champion Stephen Rees . |
| 12 | Brief because Patten — worried voters might spot him and rip him limb from limb — was only here for a day before flying back to the homes , yachts , Daimlers , helicopters , butlers and £152,000 tax-free salary Major gave him when making him Hong Kong Governor as reward for losing his seat . |
| 13 | As soon as he was able , Lucien began to exercise every day before going down to the refectory for breakfast with Ketura and Sydel . |
| 14 | Having crossed the Siemens ' Brothers homeland , it then clipped through a southern corner of Russia heading for Tehran , where it had its only interconnection before continuing on to the Indian sub-continent . |
| 15 | Cats do often pause after catching their prey and momentarily release what they imagine is a corpse before settling down to the business of eating it . |
| 16 | There are many interesting facets of this complex diagnostic process and three are worthy of re-emphasis : firstly most of his information comes not from positive signals , stimuli or cues but from their absence , secondly he is relying on a hybrid model — a mixture of rules , mental pictures and symbolism , thirdly it all happens without very much conscious guidance — one mental or physical event leads to another and each event in the chain plays its part before handing over to the next one . |
| 17 | you will be expected to have done some research , done some preparation before coming along to the lesson , if you go along to the lesson not having done that , you will be able to play back certain tips from what the other people say , but you will not er , you will find that |
| 18 | On washing day I fill a bucket half full of very hot water and add my cup of soap powder before going back to the house for breakfast . |
| 19 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 20 | Thus , when he explained his view of the campaign , and of the war as whole , to Cantalupo on 4 April , he claimed that he was waging war slowly , in order to avoid unnecessary destruction and to consolidate the " liberation " ( which , he said , was not the same as the mere " conquest " ) of one area before going on to the next . |
| 21 | You will have had a bath before going along to the morning service of Chiropody , so the problem will not arise . |
| 22 | The use of And yet in the third paragraph , for instance , gives the impression that the writer is thinking aloud , or perhaps just moving back and forth along the same line of argument — as one would do in chatting to a friend — rather than firmly wrapping up one stage in the argument before moving on to the next as is the case in the German text . |
| 23 | It does not format modules in charge code order , in other words it does not fill the volume for a particular charge code before moving on to the volume for the next charge code . |
| 24 | Individuals will approach a Lect/Dem. differently and the details will vary , but in the main it is more practical to take a piece of apparatus and say all you want to about its use before going on to the next piece . |
| 25 | Many users navigate these databases with the assistance of any available controlled indexing terms ; they may even search a related database with controlled index terms first , in order to identify some documents and refine their search strategy before moving on to the natural language of the full-text databases . |
| 26 | The eyes of the slow reader will stop on each word before moving on to the next one . |
| 27 | The most recent scare story concerning Nirvana involves Courtney being admitted to hospital in Bilbao — Nirvana 's final port of call before heading back to the US — having damaged her womb . |
| 28 | It was breathtakingly beautiful , but the sheer drop left them with no option but to make their way into the forest to bypass the hazard before heading back to the river again . |
| 29 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 30 | One lady remembered the processions to the Preaching Cross in Towngate , where there would be a short address before going back to the church . |