Example sentences of "[noun prp] before [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It then breaks into the countryside , heading out to Manston before swinging along the coast past Ramsgate and then … the torture begins . |
2 | Debbi was like ‘ yes , I 'm completely miserable but what do you mean , break up the band ? ’ ’ says Susanna before turning into a hippy . |
3 | They had dinner at the Trocadero in Shaftesbury Avenue before taking in the late show at the Windmill Theatre . |
4 | 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 ) . |
5 | After she gained her private pilot 's licence , she was an instructor at a flying school at Biggin Hill before sitting for her commercial ticket at the age of twenty-one . |
6 | He had raised cattle in central Nebraska before coming to Washington in the mid-1970s . |
7 | She had been , in fact , tutor to the young Princess Elizabeth , who was a virtual prisoner at Bisham before succeeding to the throne . |
8 | On retiring from the business , Mr. Collar turned to local government at Soutwark before moving to Four Marks in the early 70s . |
9 | Following his father 's death in 1795 Henry was taken to Chichester before serving as a cadet in the Royal Corps of Military Surveyors and Draftsmen at the Tower of London . |
10 | The details of this action are rather scant , but Domesday Book ( see below ) showed a distinct drop in recorded values along a line of country which suggests that the Normans moved quickly to subdue Lewes and then marched westwards to join up with secondary Norman forces landing in the Selsey area to take Chichester before moving towards the Saxon treasury at Winchester . |
11 | ‘ Ours is a compact operation ’ , says Norman Eggleton , who was Operations Manager at Stanford-le-Hope before moving to King 's Lynn in 1978 . |
12 | Elvira worked for 11 years as a secondary school language and music teacher in Portugal before coming to England in 1986 . |
13 | The exhibition travels to Leiden in August , back to Spain and Portugal before returning to New Zealand in 1993 . |
14 | The PUK had not always been devoid of outside help , having at one stage been supported by Syria before entering into negotiations with Baghdad in 1984 for a new deal for Iraqi Kurds to improve on the Autonomous Region status conceded them under a mosaic of earlier legislation . |
15 | Then he glanced fleetingly at Shiona before heading for the staircase . |
16 | The violence of Ursula 's reaction convinced Charlotte she had been wise to meet Derek Fairfax before going to Swans ' Meadow . |
17 | A morning sightseeing tour enables you to explore the interesting old town of Brussels before continuing after lunch to the Rhineland where the included boat trip along the Rhine is a must . |
18 | The route passes through picturesque villages and the fascinating Canons Ashby before returning to its starting point at Daventry Country Park . |
19 | The film opened on 2,400 screens across the United States before opening in Britain and the rest of Europe later in the summer . |
20 | For their honeymoon Tracey and Billy spent a week in Tenerife before returning to their new home in Johnstone . |
21 | He held various jobs in France and England before settling in 1932 in Brixton as a second-hand motor-car dealer . |
22 | Bay Green , who spent 17 years with Kleinwort Benson before defecting to Hill Samuel merchant bank as head of corporate finance , is back with Kleinwort , this time with a seat on the board . |
23 | Mortimer almost ran headlong into a patrol of Germans as he traversed a long gallery , but the Germans were hampered by uncocked weapons , and Mortimer downed two of them with his Browning before ducking behind a turn in the wall , his men loosing a volley of rifle fire into the surviving guards . |
24 | His remarks follow a media campaign to build up the prestige of Mr Jiang , who was party boss in Shanghai before moving to Peking to replace his disgraced predecessor , Zhao Ziyang . |
25 | Next year 's exhibition schedule at The Royal Academy includes a survey of eighteenth-century Venetian art which will be shown in London from September to December before moving to the National Gallery of Art , Washington , from January to April 1995 . |
26 | She must have taken the letter straight to a photocopy shop after collecting it from the skip and then posted the copy to Zen before returning to the house , calculating that if the copy came to light each of the Milettis would equally be under suspicion . |
27 | Throughout his tour , which also took in visits to Denmark and Ireland before returning to London on April 26 for further talks with business leaders en route for Johannesburg , de Klerk stressed that foreign investment was needed to underpin his political reforms . |
28 | Lazing on a gleaming deck , the water lapping gently against the side is like a lullaby and I manage only 15 pages of Frederick Forsyth before succumbing to the pleasures of a hot Ontario sun . |
29 | After the unveiling ceremony a special train hauled by No 2 The Countess went as far as Castle Caereinion before returning to Raven Square . |
30 | George 's merits were recognised within the game with a number of minor representative honours , and when he left us he had a spell with Millwall before returning to the Midlands to play for Kidderminster . |