Example sentences of "before [being] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northern Ireland minister Michael Mates was also a regular before being sent to Ulster . |
| 2 | They were quickly fitted with track brakes and put back into service on the Crystal Palace route still in Croydon Corporation livery , in which they ran for several weeks , before being sent to Hendon in turn for repainting and renumbering . |
| 3 | Later in the war he commanded two more divisions , before being sent to Berlin early in 1919 as the head of the British military mission . |
| 4 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 5 | ‘ The Red Terror ’ , as Phar Lap was to become known , was a freak of breeding : his sire Night Raid failed to win at all in England before being sent to Australia and his dam Entreaty was unplaced on her only start . |
| 6 | However he remained with the Wellington unit only for a short time before being posted to Control Office duties at Luqa . |
| 7 | THE business dealings of a £40,000-a-year financial consultant , who was lured to a bogus appointment in a wealthy Home Counties village before being battered to death with a claw hammer , were being studied by police yesterday . |
| 8 | There was Irene Munro , who had improved her complexion with Icilma cream before being battered to death for her handbag on a beach . |
| 9 | They collected tons of blankets and food , stockpiled in Worcester before being flown to Iraq . |
| 10 | THREE young canoeists are lucky to be alive this morning after they were plucked to safety minutes before being swept to sea . |
| 11 | MANSUR MUHAMMAD AHMED RAJIH : a 34-year-old writer and poet , he was held without charge or trial for over a year before being sentenced to death in 1984 after an unfair trial on false criminal charges . |
| 12 | Ambulancemen found him unconscious and he was taken to Northallerton 's Friarage Hospital before being transferred to Middlesbrough General with severe head injuries . |
| 13 | Ambulancemen found him unconscious and he was taken to Northallerton 's Friarage Hospital before being transferred to Middlesbrough General . |
| 14 | Dogged police work by the Lockerbie investigation team , allied with the forensic skill of the Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment at Fort Halstead , Kent , established that the bomb had most likely been loaded in a suitcase at Malta before being transferred to PanAm 103 at Frankfurt . |
| 15 | The detectives are concentrating on the theory that the bomb was loaded at Malta before being transferred to PanAm 103 at Frankfurt . |
| 16 | Working in Ulster Bank , Ennis , John joined the Bank at O'Connell Street , Dublin in 1979 and , since then , worked in Lucan before being transferred to Ennis . |
| 17 | In August 1989 Scottish police visited Malta to investigate the Talb connection , and in October investigators confirmed that they were examining the possibility that the bomb had been placed aboard an Air Malta flight before being transferred to Pan Am 's Frankfurt-London-New York flight PA 103 . |
| 18 | Darlington-born Wealands joined his home-town club from Wolves in July 1970 and made 28 League appearances before being transferred to Hull in march 1972 . |
| 19 | Then the pulp was crushed to extract the juice , and the liquid was left for up to three months to ferment before being transferred to casks for maturing . |
| 20 | The two unsynchronized tapes were then simply mixed together back at base before being transferred to disc . |
| 21 | Her husband , Patrick , also 68 , was treated at the scene by paramedics before being rushed to hospital . |
| 22 | In a short address by Solveig Skjelstad , the quests scattered about the hillside and heard how as a seven year old girl , she had helped remove the bodies from both crashes , to a barn on the farm , there the bodies were placed in coffins before being taken to Trondheim for burial . |
| 23 | He was then able to sleep for about half an hour before being taken to theatre . |
| 24 | For her part in the daring escapade , Flora Macdonald was taken prisoner and , for a year , lay incarcerated on a troopship in Leith Roads in the Firth of Forth , before being taken to London , where she was sent to the Tower . |
| 25 | He was treated for shock by an off-duty doctor at the airfield before being taken to hospital , from where he was later discharged . |
| 26 | He was rescucitated by the nurse , before being taken to hospital . |
| 27 | The woman , who has not yet been named but is aged about 50 , was trapped in her car and had to be freed by firemen before being taken to hospital with back and neck injuries . |
| 28 | The man was treated by paramedics before being taken to Arrowe Park Hospital . |
| 29 | In 1973 he again tried his hand at Cheltenham and ran third in the Champion Chase before being directed to Liverpool for the Grand National . |
| 30 | If the product was made in the United States and brought to France before being brought to England , then the person who imported it into France is liable . |