Example sentences of "before [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched helplessly as Lena was hauled from the passenger seat and she too was handcuffed before being led away to the waiting Zim . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His Firebird flew and still flies in all her glory before being trapped pitifully in the arms of the Tsarevich . |