Example sentences of "before [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] [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 | Wearing a chic black costume and white fur wrap , she is seen waving to him as he departs for the colony before walking away to a smart car beside which stands a chauffeur . |
| 3 | He shrugged his shoulders , before walking over to the small refrigerator set in a corner of the living-room . |
| 4 | The narrow fissure stretched some twenty-five feet into the cliff before opening up into the tiny cave . |
| 5 | Avoid bouncing up and down because an élite performer will simply wait until you are moving upwards before driving in with a strong attack . |
| 6 | The squawking continued for a moment before dying out in a final gurgle as Rev. Levitt recited the prescribed blessing . |
| 7 | After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt . |
| 8 | Both bought a gratifyingly large number of things before passing on to the next stall , where Miss Pettigrew sat behind pyramids of tinned food , most of which , on closer inspection , proved to be for cats . |
| 9 | Nield , from Cheshire , joined up as a boy in a junior leaders battalion before passing out into the Royal Engineers . |
| 10 | Before acting out as a late Father Christmas , I want to erm , come up with some general , how shall I put it , general considerations , this is why you have slides , you realise that slides are not actually for your benefit , they 're for my benefit , that I can remember where I am and what I 'm supposed to do . |
| 11 | Bristol led after five minutes when Dziekanowski held off a challenge before centering accurately to the far post , where Rosenior headed powerfully home to mark his first full appearance for the club . |
| 12 | The woman nodded before looking away into the dying embers of the fire . |
| 13 | Luke shrugged eloquently , his eyes like dark , dreamy pools of liquid as he favoured Fran with a lingering look before looking back at the older woman . |
| 14 | Pool found themselves being hard pressed by as after taking an early lead through Michael Smithies , they squandered several good scoring chances before scrambling home by the only goal of the match . |
| 15 | Great hunks of recent memory would break loose and surface , turning briefly before sinking again like the unclaimed wreckage of the soul . |
| 16 | At first he will be greatly praised by his people , before sinking down into the dark pit of sin and pride . |
| 17 | The pair had never met before teaming up in a new-look Reds attack . |
| 18 | Before lining up for the first race of the season it 's off to the now-standard bits-and-bobs shop , where you can spend up to $100,000 upgrading your jalopy . |
| 19 | The girl curtsied again before scuttling off down a nearby passage . |
| 20 | Two of his comrades had relatively minor head wounds and received first aid in the trench before heading back to a safer area . |
| 21 | Good team spirit was built up during lunch before heading out to the second round . |
| 22 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 23 | David Macdonald made a series of quota quickies before going on to a larger budget with the striking comedy-thriller This Man is News ( 1938 ) , and Michael Powell built a reputation as a director of energetic quota films before making his mainstream début with Edge of the World ( 1937 ) , about the depopulation of a remote island in the Shetlands . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Before going on to the second reason for Locke 's not acknowledging the existence of epistemic appearances I must correct a false impression I may have given , that all the seventeenth-century philosophers who succeeded Descartes toed the Cartesian line about the mind perceiving things by being causally affected by them . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Omit each food or set of foods for about two weeks before going on to the next set . |
| 28 | The usual practice , therefore , is to take each question individually and mark that one question on every script before going on to the next question . |
| 29 | It was an American teaching method that , Frank insisted , allowed students to progress through the stages of education confident that they had grasped all the basics of one stage before going on to the next . |
| 30 | After about a dozen movements have been learned , they are strung together in a kata sequence and practised over and over again before going on to the next set of kata movements . |