Example sentences of "before [v-ing] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Harlots , ’ replied Ellen repressively , waiting until the wagon was some distance ahead before stepping on to the bridge . |
| 2 | making a brief but dazzling comeback before crashing on to the spikes of despair once more when John fell to his death from a lofty scaffold , and history repeated itself |
| 3 | Before signing on with an agency : |
| 4 | I climbed a wall to drink at the beck , sitting for a while on its banks in the sun before walking on up the legionaries ' highway crossing the Burtersett road under Green Scar Mire and heading up towards Fleet Moss and Kidhow Gate . |
| 5 | Before passing on to the maze of closely clustered streets of the old town , spare another glance at the tower . |
| 6 | There will also be a ‘ menu ’ of six visits from which visitors can choose before going on to a buffet supper with members of the Faculty . |
| 7 | The President 's choice to succeed Mr Frohnmayer must be confirmed by the Subcommittee on Education , Arts and the Humanities , then pass a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources , before going on to a Senate vote . |
| 8 | Nobles attending the court were ordered to go first to the apartments of Dara Shukoh and there make their morning obeisance before going on to the Diwan-i-khas to greet Shah Jehan . |
| 9 | A land-based board mounted on a turntable device which is used to teach the basics before going on to the water . |
| 10 | Philip who lives in Darlington , and attended the town 's Longfield Comprehensive school before going on to the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College , has already represented his country at under 15 and under 16 levels . |
| 11 | That evening the Parsons were meeting friends for an early meal before going on to the opera . |
| 12 | She was visiting her mother before going on to the hospital to feed the baby . |
| 13 | On Monday evening booksellers can meet author Nigel Williams ( Faber ) , and afterwards any delegate not otherwise engaged is invited to join BA president John Hitchin for a conference first , a President 's Personal Spring Supper at Cockington Court , before going on to the David & Charles Disco . |
| 14 | Make it a rule always to check with the scorekeeper before going on to the area . |
| 15 | Ideologically the Party was committed to creating a " working class united front " before going on to an alliance on the French or Spanish models . |
| 16 | Keith had to complete a 13-week basic RAF police training course before moving on to a waiting list for the eight-week doghandler training programme , which is completed at RAF Newton in Nottingham . |
| 17 | If you sowed tomato seeds last month , now is the time to prick them out , ie transfer them into small pots , or , if you have sown them in soil blocks , to reduce them to one per cell before moving on to a pot . |
| 18 | Mind you , if the tourist board thought they could get away with it , they 'd probably claim he spent an afternoon at the local petrol station , buying some anti-smear windscreen wash and a fan belt , before moving on to a gift shop to purchase a handmade stuffed velvet Loch Ness monster and having an appreciative sniff at the perfumed candle display . |
| 19 | Why did it feel so right to have Luke stroke his hand along the curve of her thigh , to feel it slide up over her hip and dip into the hollow of her waist before moving on to the fullness of her breast ? |
| 20 | After a few seconds he looked like a Dark Age warlord in mid campaign , in mid mop-up , on mired mountaintop , taking a glazed breather before moving on to the women and children . |
| 21 | Mr Devlin is the son of a surgeon , and was educated at Dulwich College before moving on to the London School of Economics where he graduated with a BA in modern history . |
| 22 | There are two ways of arranging the designs , either working on each one at the same time , or completing one before moving on to the other . |
| 23 | The first phase is planned to continue to the end of 1994 , and will include assessment of the current services with a view to broadening them , before moving on to the setting up of pilot networks . |
| 24 | It does not format modules in charge code order , in other words it does not fill the volume for a particular charge code before moving on to the volume for the next charge code . |
| 25 | There are a number of general theories that are concerned with such issues and we shall briefly investigate these before moving on to an examination of power within organisations . |
| 26 | Unable to get up its outside flight of steps , they lobbed grenades on to the gun platform , killing the gun commander and men drawing ammunition inside the tower , before moving on along the harbour wall to take a 40mm gun position . |
| 27 | The second Lady Deverill , having pulled her horse off Hullabaloo at the last minute , leaving herself just enough time to put him right at the ditch and hedge , did n't even bother to stop and admire her handiwork before riding on up the hill to rejoin the hunt and tell her husband that there seemed to have been a rather fearful accident . |
| 28 | Charlie assumed that he must fall with every pace he took , as he watched the lieutenant treat the German wire as just another hurdle , before running on towards the enemy trenches as if they were the finishing line in some race being held at his public school . |
| 29 | It was fortunate that they 'd both driven back to the farmhouse after leaving the nightclub , before carrying on to the forest in Adam 's car , so her own vehicle was parked outside in the courtyard . |
| 30 | He placed it on a bale of straw and pulled up an upturned bucket as a chair before hopping on to a meal bin where he sat like a pixie on a toadstool with his arms around his knees , regarding me with keen anticipation . |