Example sentences of "before [v-ing] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go past High Close youth hostel before branching off to the right on to a path which goes around the lower slopes of Loughrigg Fell to Rydal village ( 2.5 miles ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Harlots , ’ replied Ellen repressively , waiting until the wagon was some distance ahead before stepping on to the bridge . |
| 3 | making a brief but dazzling comeback before crashing on to the spikes of despair once more when John fell to his death from a lofty scaffold , and history repeated itself |
| 4 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 5 | He shrugged his shoulders , before walking over to the small refrigerator set in a corner of the living-room . |
| 6 | There were several messages for her when she arrived back at the hotel , and she worked at her desk until six before walking back to the house through the gathering dusk . |
| 7 | Mr Spiro is believed to have shot dead his wife and three children at their luxury rented home near San Diego , California , before driving out to the site . |
| 8 | Christina left Stephen a message before driving out to the airport to make her delivery . |
| 9 | Before passing on to the maze of closely clustered streets of the old town , spare another glance at the tower . |
| 10 | After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt . |
| 11 | Both bought a gratifyingly large number of things before passing on to the next stall , where Miss Pettigrew sat behind pyramids of tinned food , most of which , on closer inspection , proved to be for cats . |
| 12 | They may be retained there for days or weeks before swimming up to the top of the tract and fertilising an egg . |
| 13 | The train puffed to a stop ; only five passengers alighted , and the only male among them a tall young man , his hair so fair that from a distance it appeared almost white , waved to them before turning back to the carriage and lifting out a case . |
| 14 | His grip lingered on the translator 's hand and he smiled faintly at her before turning back to the Chief of Protocol who was standing behind him . |
| 15 | It was cool in the shade and I stayed for a while by the deep pool below the falls before turning back to the path and climbing through the heat of the late morning past Poor 's Land towards Knarlton Knot . |
| 16 | He shot a last , quick glance at the girl before turning back to the Princess . |
| 17 | The most recent scare story concerning Nirvana involves Courtney being admitted to hospital in Bilbao — Nirvana 's final port of call before heading back to the US — having damaged her womb . |
| 18 | You 're in the mood for a long spell at the crease , but the penis decides that it ca n't wait to get the game over and done with before heading back to the pavilion to put its feet up on the couch . |
| 19 | The picturesque Neumarkt is worth a visit before heading back to the Limmatquai . |
| 20 | It was breathtakingly beautiful , but the sheer drop left them with no option but to make their way into the forest to bypass the hazard before heading back to the river again . |
| 21 | Good team spirit was built up during lunch before heading out to the second round . |
| 22 | You can express your concerns before heading off to the pop concert . |
| 23 | Make it a rule always to check with the scorekeeper before going on to the area . |
| 24 | She was visiting her mother before going on to the hospital to feed the baby . |
| 25 | A land-based board mounted on a turntable device which is used to teach the basics before going on to the water . |
| 26 | Omit each food or set of foods for about two weeks before going on to the next set . |
| 27 | That evening the Parsons were meeting friends for an early meal before going on to the opera . |
| 28 | Before going on to the general question of crack propagation and control , it is worth considering some of the special effects of a dynamically applied load such as a blow . |
| 29 | The first two weeks of the course were spent in the classroom on the groundschool phase and then it was into the flying phase with a daylight jet refresher on the Meteors for the pilots before going on to the B.2s . |
| 30 | Before going on to the second reason for Locke 's not acknowledging the existence of epistemic appearances I must correct a false impression I may have given , that all the seventeenth-century philosophers who succeeded Descartes toed the Cartesian line about the mind perceiving things by being causally affected by them . |