Example sentences of "[verb] before [v-ing] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | That the program-crunching is done for him by people in Breslau , Poland , who re-transmit the results back to his office in Invernessshire for checking before sending down the line to his customer in the Thames Valley , shows that the supposed imperfections of two apparently notorious national telephone systems in fact present no real obstacle . |
| 2 | Two preliminary points need to be made before setting out the argument against secularism . |
| 3 | In the spreaders forty feet above us the agile topmen , Basso and Rasman , executed hair-raising victory somersaults before shinning down the shrouds with the rough wires grasped between their toes . |
| 4 | Did they follow him on his pub-crawl , clinically waiting until he became suitably juiced before switching on the camera ? |
| 5 | Resting his back against the tree , he switched off the flashlight and waited for his irises to expand before starting down the meadow . |
| 6 | You may remember the last thing the suede coat did before crashing down the alley was to blast off his sawn-off shotgun and watch us diving to the ground . |