Example sentences of "before the accident " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sooner or later , if she ever got her reason back , she would realise that her daughter had resigned from this German job six weeks before the accident , that she had n't breathed a word to her aunt or her friends about the possibility of her returning to Europe . |
| 2 | Two weeks later , the day before the accident , Mr Hemingway was working on the signal again . |
| 3 | ‘ In the three months before the accident , he had one sole day off . |
| 4 | Clifford Hale , regional engineer : ‘ Captain of the ship ’ until day before the accident ; his management ‘ demonstrated the lack of communication which pervaded the department ’ . |
| 5 | Mr Hubbard said two people in a blue Ford Escort car had pulled alongside Flook and threatened him before the accident . |
| 6 | John Lewis , the district manager in charge of Lowermoor , had been voicing his concerns about the safety of the treatment works for some years before the accident . |
| 7 | Having been very active before the accident , Guy resumed sport as soon as he could . |
| 8 | Greg was working on some kind of deal in Italy not long before he … before the accident . |
| 9 | Just before the accident , he had snatched his favourite toy from his brother and had been stopped by his mother from hitting him over the head . |
| 10 | Before the accident he was enjoying a lucrative career on the Senior Tour . |
| 11 | His aim is to be 95 per cent of the player he was before the accident . |
| 12 | ‘ My swing has not really had to alter , but I am probably hitting my drives 20 yards shorter and I 'm needing two or three irons longer than I needed before the accident . ’ |
| 13 | A COUPLE who died in a seafront car smash yesterday could have been racing seconds before the accident . |
| 14 | Benny was limping slightly and she paused to lean on the girl with the blonde curly hair who she had noticed seconds before the accident . |
| 15 | ‘ Did it strike you just before the accident that Harriet looked woozy or unsteady in the saddle ? ’ |
| 16 | She seemed ill at the meet just before the accident . |
| 17 | ‘ The child was not born before the accident . |
| 18 | A British Transport police spokesman said : ‘ Fans had been drinking heavily before the accident and would have been fairly merry . ’ |
| 19 | Then , just before the accident , he had met a girl whose looks reminded him of Diana . |
| 20 | On 21 February 1986 , the day before the accident in which he fell and suffered burns , the deceased wrote a rational and businesslike letter to his stockbroker , Mr. Clarke . |
| 21 | A terrible pause , he thought ; the moment before the accident . |
| 22 | Interdisciplinary relationships are being defined in an area where team work is essential to work together quickly and safely — interpreters , ambulancemen , policemen , doctors and nurses have to know about each other 's roles and responsibilities before the accident . |
| 23 | At home , before the accident , he had n't said so much to her for years . |
| 24 | A preliminary report published on Aug. 14 by Nepalese investigators , concerning the Thai Airways Airbus which crashed in the Himalayas near Kathmandu on July 31 , killing all 113 passengers and crew [ see also p. 39033 ] , said that the pilot had struggled with faulty wing flaps minutes before the accident . |
| 25 | The defendants had repaired the wheel shortly before the accident and were held to be manufacturers . |
| 26 | There the court accepted forensic evidence called by the plaintiff that , while a blood-alcohol level of 168 milligrams represented an excessive intake of alcohol , it would not necessarily produce symptoms apparent to a lay person , such as the plaintiff , who had met the defendant in a pub only half an hour before the accident . |
| 27 | I have already drawn attention to the appalling contrast between the plaintiff 's young life as it was before the accident and her life as it is now . |
| 28 | At the further confidential statement by Mr runs to four pages er , sorry , I 'm sorry , runs to four paragraphs and because of the insight into the plaintiff before the accident I will read it in its entirety . |
| 29 | One with all the attributes of a jet-setter , considering the sort of life he must have led before the accident that had put him out of motor racing , yet he seemed to be living here like a monk . |
| 30 | I came to terms with that long before the accident . |