Example sentences of "[adj] before [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 2 | Along the riverside , hay would have been cropped several times through the summer , and then , at the end of the summer , the animals who had been on the fallow would be turned on to both the meadowland and the stubble of the arable before coming into the paddocks by the village over the winter , to be stall-fed on the hay cut from the meadow . |
| 3 | Mr Bush was in deep trouble as Mr Clinton won the normally Republican states of Vermont , New Hampshire and Georgia , and then carried West Virginia , which went for Ronald Reagan in 1984 before switching to the Democrats four years ago . |
| 4 | The exhibitions were facilitated and curated by the Mappin Art Gallery , Sheffield and will be on show at the gallery until December 1992 before touring to the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum , Coventry in 1993 . |
| 5 | A constant bane of the conference organiser is arriving at a venue to load and unload a dozen mini computers , audio-visual equipment , tape recorders , packets of paper and the like , six or eight times onto trolleys , carrying them up or down steps , grazing elbows squeezing into lifts or staggering miles under their weight — all before arriving at the place where they have to be set up . |
| 6 | This is an optional group as you can leave the seniors at sixteen before moving into the adult ranks . |
| 7 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 8 | But she would have to wait until the dog was fast asleep before going into the garden . |
| 9 | If the Queen lives to 92 — and she has said she wo n't abdicate — Charles would be 70 before coming to the throne . |
| 10 | With Andrew Woolley ( 40 ) and Phil Davis ( 39 ) at the wicket the champions had reached a promising 140–4 before slumping to the young spinner . |
| 11 | Although the morphology depends largely on the crystallizing conditions , we shall consider the macro- and microscopic structure first before dealing with the kinetics of formation . |
| 12 | One possibility , usually disastrous for the development of the wider course in terms of resource constraints , is the ‘ header-tank ’ model , where departments with strong freestanding courses resource and develop these first before turning to the faculty- or polytechnic-wide scheme . |
| 13 | If the reader or his partner(s) are members of the Faculty of Taxation of the Institute , it is recommended that an approach is made to tax counsel for an opinion under the special terms available before hearing by the Commissioners . |
| 14 | Then swiftly she launches into a staccato attack on political buffoonery and the Government in general before lashing at the crass assumptions that men make about women , and reaching the parts of chaps ' angst-filled sexuality that mere innuendo could never find . |
| 15 | A great many of the physical features of polymer composites are shared by all composite materials and we shall devote the largest part of this chapter to the topic of the mechanical properties of composites in general before particularizing on the features peculiar to polymers . |
| 16 | Scald and skin the tomatoes by placing them in a bowl , pouring boiling water over them , counting to fifteen before pouring off the hot water and replacing it with cold . |
| 17 | The journeymen wool sorters of Exeter did this in 1787 before striking at the time when their employers had large wool stocks on hand . |
| 18 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |