Example sentences of "before he can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he can set out the book reaches a savage climax as a night bivouac comes under heavy bombardment with rockets and mortars : the violence , noise and confusion are captured , as is the terrifying helplessness which contrasts with the circumstances of his first wound in action during an armoured charge under gunfire . |
| 2 | However , before he can contest Sunday 's best-of-17 frames showdown , World No13 McManus must account for John Parrott , in what is his ninth semi-final appearance this term . |
| 3 | The Chelsea player damaged cruciate ligaments in the game and faces more surgery before he can return to action . |
| 4 | Davies , who turned pro nearly four years ago , would have to sit out three seasons before he can return to his old sport as a coach . |
| 5 | ‘ And if you put a bullet into him before he can pass the information on to Bailey then Mobuto 's as good as dead . |
| 6 | Before he can open his mouth he gets a simple instruction from each of us , so he stands switching his gaze from her to me and back again like he 's at a tennis match . |
| 7 | However , it could take up to a week before he can open his eyes . |
| 8 | For such a limitation defeats the pre-emption thesis since it requires every person in every case to consider the merits of the case before he can decide to accept an authoritative instruction . |
| 9 | He has to be able to reduce the tension ( technically tonus ) in his muscles before he can make controlled movements . |
| 10 | Perhaps the shopkeeper should have a panic button under the counter to press during such a confrontation , and while humouring the shopper by pretending to go and look for some grey ones , stout men could rush in and restrain the customer before he can make it to his Access card . |
| 11 | Although Freidle needs a work permit before he can make his Forest debut , a first team place is there for the taking following Crossley 's continuing loss of form . |
| 12 | The 21-year-old , signed from Dallas Sidekicks last week for Pounds 300,000 , still needs a work permit before he can make a full debut in English football . |
| 13 | Lazio 's doctor Claudio Bartolini explained that it will be 24 hours before he can make a true assessment of the damage . |
| 14 | A bicycle retailer should ask who is the bicycle for , what type is preferred , e.g. BMX or racing bicycle , and the colour preference , before he can make sensible suggestions as to which model is most suitable . |
| 15 | The Wanderers ' manager , Phil Neal , has some way to go before he can expect to be so honoured but he collected several brownie points after his side 's spirited performance . |
| 16 | The lieutenant believed ‘ it will be a long time before he can expect to be advanced to be captain in so old a corps . |
| 17 | The patient often learns to undress by himself long before he can manage to dress . |
| 18 | and everything over to me , he 's got to be paid all the loans completely off plus the mortgage that 's in arrear , that , that house got to be round to square one with a , with a fourteen thousand pound mortgage and that 's it before he can sign that house over to me |
| 19 | Nevertheless , Mr Lamont has a long way to go before he can recover the confidence of Scottish business leaders . |
| 20 | Before he can contemplate a victory that would establish him as United 's most successful manager since the days of Sir Matt Busby in the 1960's , United must first overcome relegation-threatened Luton at Kenilworth Road tomorrow and Nottingham Forest at Old Trafford on Easter Monday . |
| 21 | The manner of Biggs 's defeat was to say the least surprising and on this evidence Mason has still a long way to go before he can think of himself as a genuine contender for the world championship . |
| 22 | Philip 's got quite a way to go yet before he can beat me . ’ |
| 23 | The informal organisation of a company is so important that a newcomer has to ‘ learn the ropes ’ before he can settle effectively into his job , and he must also become ‘ accepted ’ by his fellow workers . |
| 24 | Here , the wife is left exposed to the monk 's attentions when the husband shuts himself up in his counting-house ( 75 – 88 ) ; he delivers his wife a lecture on his " " curious bisynesse " " when she asks him to come down to eat ( 224 – 48 ) ; he must settle his affairs in Paris before he can settle back at home after his trip to Bruges ( 365 – 9 ) . |
| 25 | The ghost plot — Swayze gets killed , and before he can go off to heaven he has to save his girlfriend Demi Moore from the bad guys — is really just a gimmick , there to dress up the standard Swayze package with a few special effects and an impossibly sentimental ending . |
| 26 | In doing this you will probably find that you have become concerned , not simply with the particular task they have to carry out , but with their relations with other officers carrying out other tasks or involved with other aspects of the investigation you are writing about , even down to such matters of internal etiquette as how high does an officer have to rank before he can go into the office of a superior without knocking ? |
| 27 | But he says we need a lot more heavy rain before he can roll up and put away his prayer mat . ’ |
| 28 | Because it 's black as pitch and blowing like blazes , and any man moving on deck will be washed from Hull to Hackney before he can cast a rope from a pin . |
| 29 | The lynch mob gets to Greg Ackell before he can escape the country |
| 30 | When he finally decided to publish it in 1678 , he defended its form by comparing the tactics of the hunt for souls with the way in which a fowler must whistle to attract birds , and a fisherman must tickle trout before he can clasp them . |