Example sentences of "[noun pl] before [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew , however , that her mother could be relied upon to have fastened up the hens before coming up to the Oaks ' farm for the supper , so she settled her fears . |
| 2 | You can express your concerns before heading off to the pop concert . |
| 3 | Dismissing the irritating Leo from her mind , she ran lightly upstairs to collect a thick sweater and to pull on heavy shoes before setting off across the boggy field behind the cottage towards the bend in the river . |
| 4 | The first two weeks of the course were spent in the classroom on the groundschool phase and then it was into the flying phase with a daylight jet refresher on the Meteors for the pilots before going on to the B.2s . |
| 5 | With Kallicharran , who made 97 , he put on 303 for the third wicket , with some wonderful strokes all round the wicket that culminated in 36 runs off his last 13 balls before holing out on the boundary . |
| 6 | They may be retained there for days or weeks before swimming up to the top of the tract and fertilising an egg . |
| 7 | Omit each food or set of foods for about two weeks before going on to the next set . |
| 8 | Both bought a gratifyingly large number of things before passing on to the next stall , where Miss Pettigrew sat behind pyramids of tinned food , most of which , on closer inspection , proved to be for cats . |
| 9 | If so , you need to change those beliefs before moving on to the next step . |
| 10 | One night when his parents were out David returned to the scene ; as expected everything was quiet not even a walker with a dog was passing through , David cautiously approached the old hut , he peered through a crack in the battens before going round to the door which to his surprise was ajar . |
| 11 | Unsuitably dressed and squealing in the nippy air , the girls ran round like chickens before fleeing back to the cars . |
| 12 | Having an extra wash tray to rinse your prints before going back to the dev. time to allow for the stop , etc. would n't go amiss . |
| 13 | Having an extra wash tray to rinse your prints before going back in the dev. will keep it longer . |
| 14 | She offered him the half-smoked burnie but he batted it angrily from her fingers before heading back towards the concourse . |
| 15 | Go through each of the stages about twenty times before moving on to the next stage . |
| 16 | I made the usual radio and pre-landing checks before coming round onto the final approach , much too high , but somehow I managed to do a reasonable landing . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought we might have got round to talking new terms before breaking up for the summer , but I was told the board were n't able to arrange a meeting . |
| 18 | On reconnaissance nights , the submarine had to use precious hours of moonless darkness while she charged her batteries before trimming down in the water with her saddle-tanks just awash , the slight swell breaking occasionally over the casing . |
| 19 | Never the most fluent of jumpers , she put in some unnecessarily extravagant leaps before settling down on the second circuit , but then met the final open ditch all wrong and deposited the hapless Mullins on the floor . |
| 20 | A land-based board mounted on a turntable device which is used to teach the basics before going on to the water . |
| 21 | Benjamin insisted that we shave , wash and change our linen and doublets before going down to the hall . |
| 22 | It was cool in the shade and I stayed for a while by the deep pool below the falls before turning back to the path and climbing through the heat of the late morning past Poor 's Land towards Knarlton Knot . |
| 23 | He grabs the top edge with his hands , thumps the face of the buttress several times with his feet and then does the same thing on the other side of the buttress with his hands before springing down to the ground . |
| 24 | Students should therefore be encouraged to debate the issues before moving on to the next question . |
| 25 | Rose with three men ambushed a couple of trucks one evening , killing 12 men before melting back into the shadows of the scrub . |
| 26 | ‘ Laura ! ’ he groaned , tossing aside his shirt and swiftly divesting himself of his clothes before lying down on the bed beside her . |