Example sentences of "before [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Saturday evening , before seeing Law on the following morning , he dined with Davidson at the Argentine Club and informed him that he would ‘ rather take a single ticket to Siberia than become Prime Minister ’ . |
| 2 | The Ayrshire MPs were in Prestwick before returning south for the new parliamentary session which began this afternoon . |
| 3 | Before applying paint to the door , lightly clean the surface with white spirit to remove any dirt or grease . |
| 4 | He had been on the committee of the Scottish region , as it was ten called , since 1984 — ‘ they flung me on as naive new blood ’ — — and was vice-chairman for two years before becoming chairman at the tender age of 25 . |
| 5 | He returned to his native Sheffield in 1845 and took the Crown and Anchor Hotel at the top of Bright Street before becoming landlord of the Adelphi . |
| 6 | Mr Byrne was involved with the Order 's cadet and badge ( the six to nine-year-olds ) sections in North Yorkshire before becoming Commissioner for the county of Cleveland 18 months ago . |
| 7 | Born in Devon in 1954 , Andrew Mudge left school at the age of fifteen and did nine years ' service in the Navy before becoming Gardener for the Trust at Castle Drogo where he worked for seven years . |
| 8 | There is very little evidence for Elena 's scientific activity in the ten years after 1955 when she took up her ‘ studies ’ before becoming director of the Institute . |
| 9 | Luciana Mottola Colban discussed the plans with Danièle Giraudy , one of the minds behind the Pompidou Centre , where she worked in an educational role for eight years , before becoming director of the Musée Picasso at Antibes , and then moving on to the Musée des Arts Decoratifs as Director in 1991 . |
| 10 | Beer mats will give way to hymnals , and glasses to enlightenment as Britain 's first ‘ pub church ’ holds its Easter Day service , two hours before opening time at the Old Farmhouse public house in Nailsea , near Bristol . |
| 11 | Lynsey has come through the ranks from Ulster Under-16 level , to the Under-21s , before gaining selection for the Ulster senior squad . |
| 12 | It goes west along the river Humber before passing north around the western edge of the Yorkshire Wolds . |
| 13 | The latter need not wait for a change of heart on the part of the Prime Minister , or the election of a new government , before translating guilt about the condition of those less fortunate than themselves into action . |
| 14 | The manufacturer specifies that this must be left for 72hrs before adding water to the pond . |
| 15 | From the car park it goes east for around a mile and a half before going south-west to the Water of Trool . |
| 16 | He wrote north for reinforcements on 10 June and the army assembled at Pontefract a fortnight later , where it witnessed the execution of Rivers , Vaughan and Grey before moving south under the command of Northumberland and Sir Richard Ratcliffe . |
| 17 | He wrote north for reinforcements on 10 June and the army assembled at Pontefract a fortnight later , where it witnessed the execution of Rivers , Vaughan and Grey before moving south under the command of Northumberland and Sir Richard Ratcliffe . |
| 18 | We had friends who waited two days in Sorata before getting transport to the Ancohuma base . |
| 19 | The route then heads north to the medieval village of Wharram Percy before cutting east towards the coast at Filey Brigg . |
| 20 | Drain off the water before starting work on the making of the dish . |
| 21 | Engineers found the corrosion when they were checking the bridge before starting work on the support piers . |
| 22 | Just 20 years ago , half of us were eating bacon for breakfast before starting work in the morning . |
| 23 | Before starting rotation of the impeller the lithotrite was gently rotated under fluoroscopy to ensure that it was free of the gal bladder wall . |
| 24 | Fortunately the low 85-knot rotation speed comes up in no time at all , providing a sense of relief at being airborne before losing control of the situation . |
| 25 | Before joining battle on the value judgements in the theses of Fairlie and Butt , both of which agree basically with the assessment given here of the powers and role of the House of Commons today , it is worth establishing the facts , both historical and contemporary . |
| 26 | D'Aubigny waved aside our letter of introduction and called for more refreshments before joining Angus on the other side of the table . |
| 27 | The letter continued : ’ The answers to your specific questions to the Minister , are , therefore , that we have seen a certain amount of information on the cost of the King 's Cross project ’ — we should like to know what that certain amount of information is — ’ and the projected revenues before giving consent to the deposit of the Bill . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Hey , Miguelito do good , huh , ’ he giggled , with a little prance of his feet before scurrying forrard for the starboard sheet , and yapped dog-like as he jumped back into the cockpit , sheet ready . |
| 29 | He seems to have decided long before assuming responsibility for the government of Northern Nigeria that in general some form of indirect administration was ‘ in accordance with the spirit of British colonial rule ’ , which was benevolent and not ‘ arbitrary and despotic ’ . |
| 30 | After wandering through Scandinavia , permutations completed , England came to Chorzow , the last match they would play before taking part in the World Cup . |