Example sentences of "[noun pl] before [verb] [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 | The hypothesis can be tested , in an attempt to falsify it , by plugging the ears of bats before releasing them into the test laboratory . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was the RSPCA 's intention to try and sedate the animals before taking them to a sanctuary . |
| 6 | It is worth discussing your child 's needs in detail and having a few rehearsal sessions before committing yourself to a job . |
| 7 | Now he was naked too beside her and making pantomime bows to his guests before launching himself into the night . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 11 | Once the girls are at playgroup , Faith spends the rest of the morning catching up on chores before collecting them for a leisurely lunch . |
| 12 | We weakened the signal in several ways , one of which was by damaging the cells of the polarizing region with high doses of X-rays before grafting it to the anterior margin . |
| 13 | I want to upgrade to a much larger reef tank in the near future , but first should I gain much-needed experience in keeping invertebrates before committing myself to the expense of failure with a large tank ? |
| 14 | The aviary was for injured birds before releasing them into the wild . |
| 15 | At five o'clock in the morning Ada Neumann would have been in her kitchen , simmering the dozens of doughnut-shaped rolls in hot water for a few minutes before baking them in the oven , glazing them with egg-white and then showering them with sesame seeds . |
| 16 | He unspooled it , ripped it from the plastic , then rolled it in his palms before dropping it into an ashtray . |
| 17 | Actually the ganglion cells are responsible for preprocessing the information in sophisticated ways before relaying it to the brain , and in some ways the word " interface " does n't do justice to this . |
| 18 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |
| 19 | The instructor smiled as he went to each man in turn and pulled out two full arm lengths of cord from their parachutes before attaching it to the static line . |
| 20 | She missed two games before finding it behind a cushion , but then took only a few days to call house on number 52 in game 230 . |
| 21 | Security people checked invitations before admitting anyone through the tent flaps . |
| 22 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 23 | However , by virtue of s. 89 of the Companies Act 1985 both private and public companies which wish to allocate shares for cash must offer these shares for purchase by existing members before offering them outside the company . |
| 24 | An optical path reflects the beam along a series of 10 mirrors mounted alongside the arm 's joints before focusing it with a zinc selenide lens . |
| 25 | Detectives believe the broker , who helped Terry Waite 's efforts to free hostages in Lebanon , may even have drugged his wife and children before shooting them in the head . |
| 26 | The position of the old inn made it attractive to wealthy friends of Royalty , wishing to change their clothes before presenting themselves to the monarch at Windsor . |
| 27 | He studied the English copy for a few more moments before dropping it into the shredder . |
| 28 | You manage a clumsy robot-like walk in the heavy boots before kicking them into the bindings on the skis and gingerly sliding along . |
| 29 | He has the opportunity to comment on these documents before forwarding them to the Church Commissioners . |
| 30 | They then drove fifteen miles before dumping him on the Buckinghamshire border . |