Example sentences of "[noun sg] before [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the defendant is clearly guilty of a crime like wounding with intent , and only doubtfully guilty of murder , it is sensible to start with the clear crime before coming to the doubtful one . |
| 2 | Each new king presented himself here with his various dignitaries for a robing ceremony before proceeding to the High Altar . |
| 3 | Key Points Keep low ; weight on the back foot ; front foot by the mast ; hands on the mast ; steer the board through the wind before moving to the other side . |
| 4 | This is where I performed my gravity-defying experiments with the wind before returning to the cliff-top in the company of a couple of other walkers who , like me , were thoroughly enjoying these extraordinary conditions . |
| 5 | Adjust seasoning , cover and refrigerate for at least 10–15min before serving with a mixed green salad . |
| 6 | Catch crops are usually sown in late summer or early autumn immediately after harvest , for grazing in early winter and again in the spring before ploughing for the next main crop . |
| 7 | Later , these form complex accumulations of metres in the same key before returning to the central key … this accumulative process continues until the original key/metre associations are lost in an overall texture of harmonies and metres . ’ |
| 8 | Cesar elegantly waved Corbett to a seat before disappearing into the small back room beyond , returning with two crystal goblets brimming with iced sherbet . |
| 9 | After leaving the cylinders , it powers items of auxiliary equipment before passing through a large radiator in the support unit , returning cool to the water tank . |
| 10 | Christopher Casabona was sentenced to two years probation after a jury heard how he tied up a woman lodger at her Felixstowe home before leaving with a 15-year-old girl . |
| 11 | We rejoined the footpath just in front of the hill 's ridge and followed its famous curving terrain before embarking in a straighter downward path back into the valley . |
| 12 | This misunderstanding , together with the antagonistic attitudes of the village practitioners towards BRAC 's message , suggest that BRAC had failed to do sufficient ground work before embarking upon the Oral Therapy Extension Programme . |
| 13 | It rejects the proposal that accountants should not be allowed to report suspicions to senior management before reporting to the appropriate external authorities , and stresses that those that do report externally must be protected from any possible claims of breach of confidentiality . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She hesitated for a moment before asking in a low voice : ‘ The book you bought yesterday — you have read it ? ’ |
| 16 | She hesitated for a moment before adding in a lowered voice , ‘ She 's known Philippe for quite a while , but I do n't think she ever realised … ’ |
| 17 | What I 'm saying here is that , if you fancy one , it should be checked out carefully in the shop before parting with the ready folding , even though , for the price , you 'd have to go a very long way to beat it . |
| 18 | As the driver ambled off , shaking his head , she stood up , took a deep breath , then shut the door of the staff-room before turning to the new medical officer . |
| 19 | The leader with the sad smile slid into 20 years of disgrace before returning to the political stage with the fall of communism in late 1989 . |
| 20 | Being a radical experimental company of the time , given to onstage nudity , we were no strangers to Beth 's voluptuous physique and it was hard to suppress our giggles at the absurd movie , in which a deformed , slobbering handyman ogles and gropes our heroine before coming to a violent end . |
| 21 | However , the government demanded a five-year grace period before paying into the UN-supervised compensation fund for Kuwaiti victims of Iraq 's occupation and the ensuing war , on the grounds that it had to meet domestic needs first , including the US$194,000 million cost of reconstruction . |
| 22 | The men stole four and a half thousand pounds in cash before escaping in a stolen car . |
| 23 | He checked her face for sincerity before going to the other room , returning with a photograph in a fancy tin frame . |
| 24 | All parts of the body were then to be carefully washed in spirits of wine before proceeding to the third stage , which consisted in the injection of the body a second time — his system being an amalgam of that advocated by Robert Boyle and Ruysch — and the viscera , should it be considered necessary . |
| 25 | Resource-based learning can last as little as ten minutes : a child 's scrutiny of a repeating film-loop which teaches him a concept or skill he will need for the next part of his programme ; a short programmed exercise that enables him to test his grasp of an idea or piece of knowledge before embarking on a larger exercise ; a work-card unit giving practise in loading a projector or using a subject catalogue . |
| 26 | After an alleged assault on her birthday in September 1989 she could not face returning to the Royal High and missed eight months of education before starting at a private school . |
| 27 | The user , seated in front of a video display unit ( VDU ) , interacts directly with the computer , inspecting the results produced by one request before deciding on the next . |
| 28 | Gimenez , who went the distance before losing to a 36-year-old Roberto Duran in 1987 is relishing his chance to make up for lost time . |
| 29 | It is designed to help each applicant to make an informed decision before applying for a particular programme of study . |
| 30 | Every harvest dance begins with the workers circling the field before moving into a straight line and beginning to reap . |