Example sentences of "before [v-ing] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He trembled and groaned as her hands moved urgently over his flesh , before drawing her roughly against the pulsating length of him , letting her feel his arousal , his mouth moving blindly over her soft velvety skin , touching and tasting , raising her senses to such a pitch that she cried out , the wild clamouring in her blood , the driving need for his possession more than she could bear . |
| 2 | Across the fire Travis studied his cup before tossing it away with an irritable gesture . |
| 3 | Jason Page , 17 , had already punched and kicked Daisy Castle before stabbing her twice in the chest , a St Albans Crown Court jury was told . |
| 4 | Some of the same movements are repeated yet again in the final pas de deux , when the Prince raises her high above the glistening Stars before leading her away to the land where ‘ they lived happily ever after ’ , where all fairy tales should end . |
| 5 | Which came mercifully swiftly , in the shape of another devastatingly accurate straight left , and then a perfect right uppercut which hardly seemed to travel more than a foot , but which was delivered with such a force that it lifted Mike up on to his toes , before toppling him backwards in a heap at his elder brothers ' feet . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll see if I can get tickets , ’ was all he offered before kissing her sweetly on the mouth and going inside to get some paperwork together for the meeting with his lawyer who was driving out from Palma to see him . |
| 7 | Two , three times , I had my pleasure of her before kissing her roundly on the cheeks , slapping her on the bottom and whispering a fond adieu . |
| 8 | The girl pushed past , but the youth again demanded money before punching her hard in the face . |
| 9 | The contractors take it away and dilute it before spreading it thinly on the soil . ’ |
| 10 | She took trouble with her hair , and bathed her face regularly in cold water before rubbing it well with the towel . |
| 11 | Originally , Geoff Huffer , Ile De Nisky 's trainer , felt his colt was immature and was going to give him just one more run before putting him away for an ambitious campaign next year . |
| 12 | Beyond this , what might appear just to be a way of illustrating how motets were put together — singing the two or three different , often highly contrasted melodies individually before putting them together as a polyphonic , multi-texted whole — may equally well represent a valid reflection of the manner in which they were originally performed . |
| 13 | Dundee did deservedly edge in front in the 12th minute when Gary McKeown curled in a cross from the right and defender Gary Paterson was allowed to chest the ball down before hooking it high into the net . |
| 14 | Moustaine walked through the ranks , stuck his fingers into Haines 's mouth and proceeded to pull out the half-chewed food , before hitting him hard in the solar plexus . |
| 15 | The giant Sikh 's muscles bunched , the veins stood out on his throat and temples , his eyes bulged , and somehow he heaved the great iron bell into the air and swung it back and forth three times , making the walls sing and tremble , before silencing it again on the pulsing floor . |
| 16 | Mayli hesitated just briefly before shooting him twice through the chest . |
| 17 | We would increase the public sector borrowing requirement for the first two years before reducing it sharply for the rest of our term of office to balance the books over five years . |