Example sentences of "before [v-ing] it [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The object of this small heading change is to stop the pointer moving before bringing it back into the circle . |
2 | I would then propose to add it to the agenda of the Transport Working Group before bringing it back to the Chief Executive 's Management Group . |
3 | Patrick began by blunt cutting the ends then , after blow-drying , he pulled the hair into a high ponytail which he lightly backcombed before splaying it out on the top of the head . |
4 | When a child has got the squeeze , he is allowed to hold on to it as long as he wants before passing it on to the next person . |
5 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
6 | As each reader received a book he put the date opposite his name , followed by the date on which he finished it , before sending it on to the next person on the list . |
7 | To give themselves ready cash , some American airlines want to keep a 10% ticket tax for up to a year before handing it over to the government . |
8 | He arrived at his drive , discussed the second shot , decided on a club and then , before taking it out of the bag , held out his hands in front of his caddie and said : ‘ Look , not a tremor . ’ |
9 | The traditional trap fitted to basins was the ‘ U'-bend which was created by bending lead pipe coming out of the plug hole into a U shape before taking it out through the wall . |
10 | The leggy actress has revealed that she now shreds all the rubbish at her Malibu home before putting it out for the dust-men . |