Example sentences of "himself before [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , when she left a few drops , he drained it himself before laying the empty glass beside his own on the wall . |
| 2 | Another key piece of evidence was Magee 's palm print on the roof of the police car , matching Pc Kelly 's description of how he steadied himself before firing . |
| 3 | The patient may shoot himself before finding out it is only an ingrowing toenail . ’ |
| 4 | He may have then reeled backwards and put his bloody hands on the wall to support himself before carrying on with his killing spree . |
| 5 | Farr-Jones was clearly in a mood to enjoy himself before joining the Barbarians to take on the All Blacks at Twickenham on Saturday . |
| 6 | Athelstan stopped to compose himself before continuing : ‘ When it was over , my brother was dead and I had aged a hundred years . |
| 7 | He blinked his pale grey eyes , took a careless look around himself before walking smartly up the driveway to Roirbak 's complex , an array of wafer-thin data cards — the discerning burglar 's equivalent of a crowbar — ready to hand . |
| 8 | The new Sunderland striker steadied himself before blasting an unstoppable left-foot drive past Karavaev . |
| 9 | Mr Mackie claimed Murray had heated up some heroin in a spoon and injected himself before giving him enough heroin for his own injection . |