Example sentences of "before [v-ing] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once out of the village they picked up speed and took a road that would zigzag through five hamlets before bringing them to the only cart track that wound up the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 2 | He made imprints of the keys in bars of soap before returning them to the sleeping prison officer . |
| 3 | First , the practice of grazing calves from May until late July on permanent pasture , then moving these to hay or silage aftermath before returning them to the original grazing in late autumn . |
| 4 | Always close the doors at one end before opening them at the other , unless the wind is very light , and never leave both ends open in case a wind springs up later in the day . |
| 5 | A 39-year-old man admitted kidnapping two 13-year-old schoolgirls , raping one and indecently assaulting the other , before stabbing them with a three-foot-long ceremonial sword and leaving them for dead in the forest . |
| 6 | ‘ A managing director of one of my companies is a great believer in studying the star signs of applicants before employing them in the company . |
| 7 | ( viii ) Remove the coverslips from their chambers and transfer them into PBS containing 0.1 % Tween-20 ( PBS — Tween ) before incubating them with the specific antibodies or other reagents . |
| 8 | He did not imagine Randolph Henry Ash , his pen moving rapidly across the paper , but he did have the thought of the pads of the long-dead fingers which had held and folded these half-covered sheets , before preserving them in the book , instead of jettisoning them . |
| 9 | COOK 'S TIP : Always break the bay leaves before adding them to the pan otherwise most of their flavour will be trapped and they will be of no benefit to the casserole . |
| 10 | When refloating a herd , it is important to hold the rescued animals together until the entire herd is assembled before releasing them to the open sea . |
| 11 | The aviary was for injured birds before releasing them into the wild . |
| 12 | The hypothesis can be tested , in an attempt to falsify it , by plugging the ears of bats before releasing them into the test laboratory . |
| 13 | But be warned that some species react badly to a change of water chemistry , and a ‘ home quarantine tank in which the fish may be further conditioned and observed before releasing them into an established aquarium , is an asset . |
| 14 | He has the opportunity to comment on these documents before forwarding them to the Church Commissioners . |
| 15 | You manage a clumsy robot-like walk in the heavy boots before kicking them into the bindings on the skis and gingerly sliding along . |
| 16 | Russell Kulsrud of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ( PPPL ) believes that by polarising the deuterium atoms before feeding them into a fusion device , it may be possible to accelerate the rate at which D-T reactions occur . |
| 17 | At five o'clock in the morning Ada Neumann would have been in her kitchen , simmering the dozens of doughnut-shaped rolls in hot water for a few minutes before baking them in the oven , glazing them with egg-white and then showering them with sesame seeds . |
| 18 | They even coloured some of the mixture with saffron to make a ‘ yolk ’ , then they carefully filled the shells before baking them in the ashes of the cooking fire . |
| 19 | One of the possible kidnapping charges and that of theft relate to two incidents in which Mrs Mandela was part of a group which allegedly abducted three people before assaulting them in the old Mandela home in Soweto . |
| 20 | ‘ I think that it is tremendous that the Australian Wine Bureau is offering so many people the chance to play tennis competitively at great venues and I am looking forward to passing on a few tips to the winners — before joining them in a celebratory glass of Australian wine . ’ |
| 21 | When Eric Liddell could wish his rivals good luck before grinding them into the track , and a National Hunt jockey would slow down to help a fellow rider back into the saddle . |
| 22 | In the case of the MINSE project , where the intention was to record activities on a computer database , this also served to validate the codes given to each item before entering them into the computer . |
| 23 | ‘ We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 24 | We had just played two games in three days , so I had the players in for a hot bath and a massage before taking them for a couple of pints of Guinness . |
| 25 | It was the RSPCA 's intention to try and sedate the animals before taking them to a sanctuary . |
| 26 | If cables are being stored on drums , wind them completely off the coil before connecting them to the load ; otherwise they may overheat in use . |
| 27 | Once the girls are at playgroup , Faith spends the rest of the morning catching up on chores before collecting them for a leisurely lunch . |
| 28 | Thus in northern Nigeria there has been a long-established practice of Hausa farmers purchasing immature beef cattle at the end of the harvesting season , and feeding them on maize stalks and other crop residues during the dry season , before marketing them at the end of six months . |
| 29 | Ensure the flowers are as dry as possible before placing them on the blotting paper , as any remaining moisture will encourage mildew to form and spoil all your efforts . |
| 30 | October was the month to ‘ plant out suckers of lilacs , roses and such other flowering trees and shrubs which are propagated in this way ’ and the gardener was advised to leave them to gain strength for two years in the nursery before placing them in a permanent position . |