Example sentences of "before [verb] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He shrugged his shoulders , before walking over to the small refrigerator set in a corner of the living-room . |
| 3 | Before going on to the general question of crack propagation and control , it is worth considering some of the special effects of a dynamically applied load such as a blow . |
| 4 | Before going on to the detailed issues , let me begin by discussing some general aspects of what we mean by a crossroads and by the international position of an economy . |
| 5 | The woman who sang wandered over , carrying her sheets of music , and stopped to say a few words to Dr Rafaelo before going up to the little stage and setting up her recording deck to accompany her nightly concert . |
| 6 | Before going down to the northern ramparts where the brunt of the attack was expected to fall , he took a last look round the room and saw Hari 's phrenology book lying on the floor . |
| 7 | The stones are sometimes said to turn round or dance before going down to the local stream or lake to drink . |
| 8 | Since students should by now be comparatively well-informed about basic segmental phonetics , it is very important that their production and recognition of this vowel should be good before moving on to the following chapters . |
| 9 | Since history includes all that has ever happened , you will concentrate on two main areas — looking at the ancient civilisations of Egypt and Rome , before moving on to the Middle Ages . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The objective is to and something to share before getting down to the real business . |
| 12 | Before getting down to the fine detail of the schedule and of room sizes , the working party first considered a number of basic principles including the desirable size of wards and nursing charges and the basic philosophies of care and treatment which it was felt were most applicable to this group of patients . |
| 13 | FAST-MOVING comic-strip spoof on US life and politics , Phoenix Beam 's cult American Eagle lands at Willesden Green Library Centre , 95 High Road , London NW10 ( tel : 01 451 0294 ) , December 15-16 , before zooming off to the Lyric Theatre , Hammersmith ( 01 641 2311 ) , with open workshops and signed performances for the deaf , Dec 19-Jan 13 . |
| 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 | FRIDAY : Time for a swim before sailing on to the cosmopolitan holiday island of Kos , with its lively town and excellent sandy beaches . |
| 16 | Before setting off to the British circuits Stephen will take in the Enkalon meeting at Aghadowey on Easter Saturday , and at end of the season will ride in the Hillsborough Sunflower International . |
| 17 | The dreamings follow a set path as they alter the topography , leaving their potency , or ‘ Guruwari ’ , at specific points en route , before disappearing back to the non-material world at the point where they came in . |
| 18 | Tonight she 's putting them early to bed , before tuning in to the American election . |