Example sentences of "before [v-ing] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.

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1 Speechless with rage , Mait hurled the card in the Doctor 's face before storming out of the cell .
2 By February 1915 , he was sending Aiken ‘ Suppressed Complex ’ , a poem about a soul-like shadow dancing in the firelight of a woman 's room , before passing out of the window .
3 He was made redundant at the end of last year but before going out of the door for the final time , he had been offered a job as employee communications manager with Eastern Electricity in Ipswich .
4 On the day of his death he had done some clearing up at the home he shared with his mother , and refused tea before going out of the house unnoticed .
5 Following this , they laid him on the bed again , and when he started to groan May said , ‘ He 'll live , ’ and turning and looking at Mrs Funnell , she added , ‘ Unfortunately , ’ before marching out of the room .
6 The Dinosaur guitar influence is maybe too apparent and they might have to wait until the next one before breaking out of the indie ghetto .
7 The Dinosaur guitar influence is maybe too apparent and they might have to wait until the next one before breaking out of the indie ghetto .
8 Jerry Foley , 29 , jumped at least seven red lights and veered on to the wrong side of the road before staggering out of the car when it ran out of petrol , Wood Green crown court heard .
9 She stared with disdain at the coin Folly had given her and almost threw the flowers on to the bed before flouncing out of the room .
10 ‘ I know lots of places , ’ she retorted then glared at Doyle before striding out of the bar .
11 How the Scottish paragliders imagined this sport would adapt to the arctic , savage , gale-torn mountains of home is anybody 's guess , but they appear to be quite happy flapping around in the rain before plummeting out of the sky like Icarus and skidding to an inelegant halt face first in small lochans .
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