Example sentences of "[noun pl] before [pron] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also helpful to have the LH simply read down the list of words before you start the actual checking . |
| 2 | Ivan 's dictates on balanced tackle were instrumental in my discarding unsuitable ledger rods before I found the right one . |
| 3 | Levitt was rejected for the Queens Award only 12 months before he secured the top honour . |
| 4 | I might go out and buy it straight away , I might wait weeks , months before I acquire the particular thing to give to you as a gift , you 've got ta wait on on me giving it to you . |
| 5 | ( d ) Standing orders Beyond the requirement that the Houses shall ‘ pass ’ Bills before they receive the Royal Assent , the common law has little to say about the Houses of Parliament . |
| 6 | She blinked as they emerged into blinding brightness and searing heat , and paused to fumble for her sunglasses before they descended the broad flight of steps that led down to the canal . |
| 7 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 8 | To achieve complete combustion , in most cases , high temperatures in the order of 600–900°C , for not less than 0.3 seconds are required , in order to ignite and burn the odorous gases before they form the fine carbon of black smoke which is far more difficult to burn . |
| 9 | The disciples were told , before , ten days before they received the Holy Spirit that they were to be witnesses unto him . |
| 10 | For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings . |
| 11 | The Party never listened to him , anyway , and it was about 15 years before they made the gushing film of the Kinnocks on the clifftop — otherwise know as Jonathan Livingstone Kinnock . |
| 12 | By contrast , Aung San and Thakin Nu were unknown less than ten years before they compelled the British to concede their demands . |
| 13 | He is also puzzled by the fact that the Smyrna and Georgetown plants both have a pool of job applicants selected for them by their state governments before they make the final choice . |
| 14 | It may involve visiting several firms before you find the right one . |
| 15 | The right hon. Gentleman should get out of the habit of writing his supplementary questions before he hears the first answer . |
| 16 | ‘ Could a woman have beaten back the Scots , forcing King David to come to terms before he plundered the entire north ? ’ |
| 17 | Butler had shown a keen personal interest in the preparation of the White Paper which underwent at least four drafts before it reached the finished version . |
| 18 | Which was , say , when they 'd started the the roll of bacon , there always used to be some little bits before they got the full rashers , well , you could n't sell those , you could n't s I mean even though things were tight in those days , you could n't sell any sort of bacon , you either sold best back , or you sold belly bacon . |
| 19 | She had to blink back her tears before she opened the front door , and then she ran down the short tiled path , and , throwing back her shoulders and digging her hands into her pockets , strode down to the parade . |
| 20 | Traditionally such a media filters out loose particles before they reach the main biological area . |
| 21 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 22 | A state of complete submissiveness can thus be established in all children before they reach the fifth or sixth year of life … |
| 23 | Now they restrict cattle to the 14-hectare hillside plot which they 've had since 1979 — and from which they used to scrape a living of maize and beans before they invaded the valley-bottom land at La Colorada . |
| 24 | It takes at least a couple of seconds before I recognize the last straw . |
| 25 | He was hanging upside down , and he was so soaked in blood that it was a few more seconds before I discovered the severed artery was somewhere in his left leg . |
| 26 | The nicest thing about Duckhurst Farm 's clear round afternoons is the atmosphere : they are meant to encourage horse and rider and the owners were happy for me to trot round for five minutes before we faced the first fence . |
| 27 | This exemplary logic completed , it was another few breathless minutes before she found the necessary strength to contemplate walking the few feet to join Roman 's laughing , relaxed presence at the breakfast-table . |
| 28 | You must build sound foundations before you tackle the upper storeys , and the first of these is the fertility of the land itself . |
| 29 | It was two more hours before they reached the barbed-wire perimeter that had been erected to stop the Germans breaking through . |
| 30 | Knit together the first two stitches but only knit three stitches before you do the next knit two together . |