Example sentences of "before [be] [verb] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rubino claimed that the verdict projected the USA in the role of " world policeman " , capable of " imposing its will upon so-called independent sovereign nations " , a reference to the December 1989 US military invasion of Panama during which Noriega was seized before being flown to the USA [ see pp. 37112-13 ] . |
| 2 | She lay there awash for almost eight months before being salvaged by the Leith Towage & Salvage Co . |
| 3 | Keepers discovered her desperately fighting for life at the West Midlands Safari Park where she had to be hand-reared before being transferred to the Kingsley wildlife sanctuary , Cheshire , where she takes every opportunity to hitch a ride from the resident Bull Terrier bitch . |
| 4 | Hair was permed and scrunch dried before being pinned by the Ralph Kleeli salon |
| 5 | Baynoun ran only once as a four-year-old ( finishing fourth in the John Porter Stakes ) before being exported to the USA . |
| 6 | G-AVIL is a 1965 Alon A-2 version flown in the USA for two years before being imported into the UK in 1967 by the Ulster Flying Club at Newtownards . |
| 7 | Physically , it is a shrink-wrapped package about the size of a music CD package that the user buys off the shelf , and it was pioneered here in the UK , in France and Australia before being introduced in the US . |
| 8 | The original Laughing Man graced the Galeries Lafayette store in Paris , before being bought by the Blackpool Pleasure Beach Company in the 1930s . |
| 9 | The surviving stowaway said his friends on board the MacRuby were beaten by six crewmen before being hurled into the Atlantic off Portugal . |