Example sentences of "[noun] before [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow they 'll be free to roam Fantasyland , Adventureland and all the other Lands and try the attractions before gathering for the big gala in the evening . |
| 2 | Many of these occur in the Cambrian — it is as if the echinoderms tried out various designs before settling for the successful models that mostly survive today . |
| 3 | In the afternoons , she must always be home at 4.30 — so that the carer can take her to the lavatory before leaving for the day . |
| 4 | Catch crops are usually sown in late summer or early autumn immediately after harvest , for grazing in early winter and again in the spring before ploughing for the next main crop . |
| 5 | Then he glanced fleetingly at Shiona before heading for the staircase . |
| 6 | It 's worth checking your feet before retiring for the night . |
| 7 | The right hand side of this equation is known as the net marginal revenue , the net increase in wealth before accounting for the transfer-in price . |
| 8 | Tony Knight , who worked at BT as an electronics engineer for 23 years before opting for the academic life at Henley Management College , says that BT middle managers have attended his courses uncertain of whether they would have a job to go back to . |
| 9 | In either case the problem for X is the same , namely what is X 's position if Y Ltd. having taken delivery then becomes insolvent and goes into liquidation before paying for the goods ? |
| 10 | It will loiter in the London area for a week before heading for the rest of Britain . |
| 11 | Previous page : Lake Samiti , last stop before heading for the heights . |
| 12 | He closed the door before reaching for the light switch . |
| 13 | Just a few days before the launch the original pilot , Ken Mattingy , had been exposed to German measles and was found to have no immunity , He was replaced by his backup , Jack Swigert , who managed just two days prime-crew training before leaving for the Moon ! |
| 14 | The LSIs anchored in a bay beyond the sight of and direct fire from the Maaloy batteries , giving the assault craft a run down the coast round a headland before heading for the beaches , while the cruiser bombarded Maaloy and destroyers engaged other targets . |
| 15 | If hesitating between a peach and a pear you languidly inspect sniff and fondle the fruit before deciding for the pear , and eat it slowly with a look of bliss , no one who has left behind the absolutism of childhood ( ‘ Anyone can see that a peach is nicer than a pear ’ ) will doubt that you made the best possible choice between the flavours ; the rightness of the choice , and the objective fact that in the fullest awareness of the two flavours you were spontaneously moved to take the pear , are two sides of the same coin . |
| 16 | Oxygen masks were necessary and Carter had picked off Joseph 's face before leaving for the stair . |