Example sentences of "before they left the " in BNC.

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1 At the beginning , His Majesty impressed upon them that before they left the Palace some communiqué must be issued , which would no longer keep the country and the world in suspense .
2 For a moment , just before they left the house , as she and her aunt clung tightly to each other , the silent tears coursing down their faces , Ruth hated America and wished that it had never been discovered .
3 Some were wounded before they left the destroyer , including Stuart Chant and Sergeant Chamberlain .
4 Before they left the Irish capital , they told how pure joy replaced unbearable anguish when they learned their little girl had been found safe .
5 Before they left the caravan , Estabrook looked into the cot .
6 Corton Beach were tipped in the national newspapers just before they left the OTC to start on the London Stock Exchange 's third market .
7 She had admonished him before they left the hotel to drink no more than one glass , and his brother , Chuck , who was sipping his own wine confidently without the restraint of any such embargo , looked down and laughed good-naturedly at his indecision .
8 Before they left the camp he had seen the hides of the bull and its calf scraped clean of all life , suspended like limp black rags in the drying tent ; their white , eyeless skulls were hanging close by , and he felt a sense of desolation suddenly at the thought that he was responsible .
9 She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study .
10 Before they left the house the boys also urinated all over the murals of Kamala and the Wheel you painted in the top room and smashed the player Ron had built , slashing the recorder with a knife .
11 It 's to symbolise the sacrificed lamb roasted by the Jews the night before they left the bondage of Egypt .
12 And in his best quarterdeck manner , the King impressed on the three party leaders that before they left the palace there should be a communique to end speculation at home and abroad .
13 Walter Smith told his players before they left the dressing room at Celtic Park that he appreciated they had given him all they could since the start of that run in August .
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