Example sentences of "before [v-ing] into [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 2 | That is not to say brevity is yet a Kinnock hallmark ( ’ I 'll answer this briefly , ’ he told foreign correspondents on Friday before launching into a five-minute response ) . |
| 3 | The convention is sustained , but subtly mocked , in Twelfth Night , where Viola , bearing the suit of Orsino , waits until Maria leaves before launching into the higher style appropriate to romance ( I.v.167ff . ) . |
| 4 | Like genii , too , they must be uncorked in a dark room to dance briefly in their own time , before receding into the invisible world of memory again . |
| 5 | Burnley had taken the lead in the 13th minute when Adrian Heath capitalised on a dreadful clearance by Town keeper Tom Clarke , slipping the ball past Clarke before slotting into the empty net . |
| 6 | It wobbled and contracted , becoming shorter and fatter , before trembling into the yellow shape of the Land Rover . |
| 7 | From Esterençuby you can press onwards and upwards , towards the frontier , and then either branch right , back into the complex of mountain roads to the west that would take you eventually down again to Arnéguy , or else left , along a narrow , lonely , but not totally nerve-racking road which climbs high up on the north flank of the watershed , before relapsing into the next valley to the east . |
| 8 | The American sat there , mouthed a few more obscenities before sinking into a deep sulk as he nursed his hurt pride . |
| 9 | Alternatively David Blair 's WAX uses low-budget computer tech and digital FX to mix original film and animation , found footage and a zoned-out voiceover , as it follows a weapons industry worker who , via a television implanted in his head by bees , visits the land of the dead before turning into a smart bomb in Iraq . |
| 10 | However , the government demanded a five-year grace period before paying into the UN-supervised compensation fund for Kuwaiti victims of Iraq 's occupation and the ensuing war , on the grounds that it had to meet domestic needs first , including the US$194,000 million cost of reconstruction . |
| 11 | Before going into the cosmetic business she was a teacher , and worked for the United Nations in Geneva . |
| 12 | He also thought of Dame Agatha 's smiling face before drifting into a dreamless sleep , leaving Ranulf and Maltote to argue over the fortunes of dice . |
| 13 | I lay on the bed for a while wondering if Mathilda might return , before drifting into a troubled sleep where ghastly figures , masked and hooded , danced on a lonely island before a terrible demon god . |
| 14 | I lay for a while waiting for the chateau to fall silent again before drifting into a demon-filled sleep of black war horses rearing above me , men flying through the night air , and those dreadful corpses laid out so tidily , so neatly , in that beautiful London garden . |
| 15 | Every harvest dance begins with the workers circling the field before moving into a straight line and beginning to reap . |
| 16 | The latter opens with a lilting waltz before breaking into a sun-drenched pop anthem , a warm and welcome blood relative to The B-52s ' own ‘ Love Shack ’ . |
| 17 | In Airdrie open-air market , Mr Smith jostled among ample women shopping for cheap shell-suits and something for tea , cannily thickening his rather clipped Edinburgh accent before plunging into the adoring throng . |
| 18 | Amateur theatre flourishes almost everywhere , and when you 're beginning it can not be stressed too strongly that it is desirable to obtain some actual stage experience before jumping into the big pool of drama school , or even summer school . |
| 19 | The narrow road , complete with alarming hairpin bends , wound its way over the mountains giving breathtaking views of lakes , fjords and waterfalls before descending into the fruit-growing region of the Hardanger Fjord . |
| 20 | He was like a young and virile counterpart of Holger Danske , one of Denmark 's greatest mythical heroes , whom tradition decreed repelled all invaders in the early Viking age before falling into a deep sleep . |
| 21 | The blow caught him off-balance and he teetered for what seemed an age to the watchers , before falling into the rushing water with a hoarse scream . |
| 22 | It begins gently at first , a pipe bridge , a lattice canal footbridge and an arched cable bridge , and then develops in earnest as sliproads flail through the air , the M6 crosses , the Birmingham to Lichfield railway passes through and ever more sliproads arc over until the canal passes into a large box tunnel with two towpaths below the A38M Aston Expressway before emerging into the relative simplicity of Salford Junction below the M6 . |
| 23 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 24 | Half a dozen parrots cut a brilliant green streak across our bonnet before disappearing into the looming darkness ahead . |