Example sentences of "before [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been interrogated at the Comando di Legione in Parma before being locked up in the Citadella to await removal to Germany . |
| 2 | All weapons are cleaned and examined before being locked back into the armoury , then personal kit can be dealt with . |
| 3 | The brands were something all Ixmaritians received before being sent out into the world , but only Por Tanssie conducted the procedure without anaesthetic and proper medical care . |
| 4 | This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock . |
| 5 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 6 | When I had finished , I was made to wait two hours before being called back into the office for questioning . |
| 7 | Scuffles broke out everywhere as our officers came out of hiding and pounced on six members of the gang who bolted into the woods and sand dunes around the bay before being rounded up with the assistance of police dogs . |
| 8 | It was considered that the larger Devon found in Somerset formed a link to the big , powerful ploughing oxen of Sussex which , even in the mid-nineteenth century , were regarded also as valuable beef makers , worked only for three or four years before being turned over to the fatteners . |
| 9 | Ships were carved from the blighted forests with supernatural speed , and raiders moved as far as the Isle of the Dead before being turned back by the warding spells . |
| 10 | She remembered also , the hand of one of the drowning men , rising up out of the torrent and clutching , clutching at empty air before being dragged under for the last time . |
| 11 | He watched helplessly as Lena was hauled from the passenger seat and she too was handcuffed before being led away to the waiting Zim . |
| 12 | Engulfed by a sea of media correspondents , I shuttled back and forth , hardly saying hello to family and friends , before being led over to the bandstand . |
| 13 | The land became active at dusk : oxen appeared in their fields , and buffaloes having their last feed before being led home after the day 's grazing . |
| 14 | Mansell , clearly in pain , was then helped from his car and stood doubled up on the edge of the track before being escorted away to the medical centre for a lengthy check-up . |
| 15 | There were two minor shock-waves from the nose of the craft , rippling through the cockpit before being shrugged off by the surging momentum of the sleek fuselage . |
| 16 | We were allowed ten minutes to have our coffee and bread before being chased back to the barrack rooms for cleaning and tidying . |
| 17 | It is believed that the whole of Homer may have been passed on by oral tradition for several generations before being written down in the ninth century BC . |
| 18 | Every log , as it is picked up , can be examined as an individual work of art — shape , grain , colour , weight — before being placed carefully on the fire in the correct position , to give its own artistic display of pyrotechnics . |
| 19 | He completed his thesis on Lorenzo di Credi and worked in Italy at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the Biblioteca Herziana , Rome , before being taken on by the Albertina , Vienna . |
| 20 | Most of them must first pass through a stage of being used within LE by black speakers , before being taken up by the LE speaking community as a whole . |
| 21 | Despite her complaint , Bonnie managed to down three pints of strong ale before being taken home in the light cart , driven by the young stable-lad . |
| 22 | As part of Doctor 's research the char is painlessly tagged before being released back into the lake . |
| 23 | Mooney played four games in a row before being left out of the derby game , while Brady was substitute in the FA Cup replay against West Ham , the two games against Chelsea and the semi-final against Norwich City . |
| 24 | One way of overcoming this is by spinning a large-area sample of the solid in the laser beam , so that any individual spot is irradiated for a short time only , and is able to cool before being brought back into the beam . |
| 25 | The brains themselves only need the lightest poaching for a quarter of an hour before being lifted out of the court-bouillon and set on the beds of lettuce . |
| 26 | The receiver gave out two faint clicks as the call was bypassed into the central monitoring system before being shunted through to the appropriate department . |
| 27 | Children seemed to find us particularly intriguing , and would gaze unselfconsciously , with the characteristically grave , uncommitted regard of the young , before being yanked away from the kerb by their mothers . |
| 28 | That morning she had only been on board a couple of hours before being hauled off by the Customs men . |
| 29 | The project is to be paid for with a tailor-made $29m World Bank loan , which is scheduled to be approved by the Hungarian government later this month , before being signed off by the bank . |
| 30 | This meal of horse might be compared to the draught of air that a drowning man who has fought his way to the surface manages to inhale before being whirled down into the depths again . |