Example sentences of "before [verb] it [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would then propose to add it to the agenda of the Transport Working Group before bringing it back to the Chief Executive 's Management Group . |
| 2 | When a child has got the squeeze , he is allowed to hold on to it as long as he wants before passing it on to the next person . |
| 3 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 4 | As each reader received a book he put the date opposite his name , followed by the date on which he finished it , before sending it on to the next person on the list . |
| 5 | To give themselves ready cash , some American airlines want to keep a 10% ticket tax for up to a year before handing it over to the government . |