Example sentences of "before [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's worth stepping back a little and considering your own personality before drawing up a birth plan or vowing that you will never have an epidural whatever the circumstances . |
| 2 | These include open discussion with all staff before drawing up the policy , three months ’ advance warning of proposed changes , and a working party made up of both smokers and non-smokers to seek out and respond to the staff 's views . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Naked running was not unknown in the Dales and Pennines , where the locals would strip down to their shoes before leaping down the hills and fells . |
| 5 | Not by cheating … but if it meant trimming the petals with a pair of scisasors ten minutes before walking out the hall and the judge wo n't notice it … |
| 6 | The first frame last night was as crucial as any , but Hendry won that with breaks of 54 and 55 before opening up a lead of three with an 81 which proved to be his highest after the interval . |
| 7 | It was now evening and a light wind was blowing , so I lowered the sails before climbing down a rope and into the sea . |
| 8 | Please read the notes before filling in the application form on pages 3 and 4 . |
| 9 | The gravel cleaner may be used in accessible areas and your fingers can gently disturb the gravel elsewhere , before syphoning out the debris . |
| 10 | The action is set in a south London council flat of hideous squalor over the Easter weekend of 1990 , and it begins with a young man effing and blinding in a crescendo of impotent , inarticulate fury , before picking up a television and hurling it across the room . |
| 11 | One dealer at Bailey McMahon , just before picking up the phone to speak with clients , would chant : " I 'll rip your head off . |
| 12 | Before picking up the phone to place a brief , it is important to consider the following : |
| 13 | She waited until it had stalked away before picking up the remains of the Geiger-Muller counter and dropping them into the holdall . |
| 14 | Holidaymakers contemplating taking their diesel estate cars to the Dordogne or Brittany this summer would do well to wait until they drive off the cross-Channel ferry before topping up the tank . |
| 15 | He shook his head , smiling ironically , then took a quick swig from the can , before turning down the volume of the TV and picking up the phone . |
| 16 | Many people practice relaxation techniques , take a long soak in a bath of warm ( not hot or cold ) water , or have a quiet read in bed before turning out the light . |
| 17 | For the less rarified among us they are the things you press yourself between before turning out the light . |
| 18 | Cross a field and take the track towards New Barn Farm before heading down the footpath on the left signed Chillerton . |
| 19 | Ten minutes later Mr Mac himself arrived , blasting his big Kawasaki into the yard before strolling down the quay to cast his sceptical gaze at Wavebreaker . |
| 20 | Please take a look in your own back yard before pointing out the mess in others ' . |
| 21 | Comb from tip to root , working out the knots at the end before moving up the hair . |
| 22 | Before moving up the screen to print the next four sections , manually move the continuous stationery in the printer to the start of a new page , otherwise , the next section printed will join with this one . |
| 23 | Graham waited until the two men were seated in the cafeteria before moving down the platform to the freight car . |
| 24 | First Paul Nixon showed intelligence when he ignored an opportunity to shoot and pulled the ball back instead for the better-placed David Mehew to score and then , two minutes later , Mehew combined with Devon White before sending over a cross that Gary Penrice , a yard out , accepted with relish . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She was far too quick-witted to complain and endured silently , but she managed to extract a promise of a new hat and a new dress from him , before getting up an hour later to tidy herself and prepare supper . |
| 27 | Before switching on the engine he studied his maps . |
| 28 | Did they follow him on his pub-crawl , clinically waiting until he became suitably juiced before switching on the camera ? |
| 29 | He showed them into the lounge and drew the threadbare curtains before switching on the light . |
| 30 | Care must be taken to remove the tommy bar from the collet before switching on the motor — it is all too easy to forget , and the result is a worn motor . |