Example sentences of "before [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Check spelling and grammar on the copy before filling in the real form . |
| 2 | At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come . |
| 3 | This is a very nasty rip-off trick to play on the unsuspecting public as a petrol crank will last until well out of the guarantee period before giving up the unequal struggle . |
| 4 | Brinson , before taking over the Gulbenkian Foundation in London in 1972 had chaired an arts committee of the Foundation , set up to discuss and provide financial help to the performing arts , and particularly to dance , which had had , in his words ‘ a raw deal ’ . |
| 5 | They then move a little further down before taking up the major part of their trip , largely unbroken to the Gulf of Mexico except for stopovers to explore the towns and recover from incidents , including loss of their canoe on one occasion . |
| 6 | They then used bogus invoices to fool Lloyd 's into covering their alleged losses , before carrying out the second stage of a ‘ double sting ’ stealing £1.2 million of the £1.8 million insurance pay-out from their company , London-based Inca Gemstones . |
| 7 | He picked the clothes up off the floor and put them away in the wardrobe , and found the President a clean pair of slacks and a shirt before sweeping up the broken glass . |