Example sentences of "before [v-ing] [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking off as a conventional aircraft the plane would take its passengers into space , reaching 18,0000 mph before gliding back to earth like the Space Shuttle . |
| 2 | It may well be that all these ladies simply grabbed the first thing in the wardrobe before rushing off to court , but I somehow doubt it . |
| 3 | ‘ Darnton , ’ came the reply and the king snorted back : ‘ More like Darnton i ’ th' dirt ’ , before harrumphing back to bed . |
| 4 | Garry smiled weakly before turning back to Roman . |
| 5 | International Laura Brown remains available before heading off to university . |
| 6 | Clear the screen before going on to Step 1 below . |
| 7 | I might have read , checked papers before going up to bed . |
| 8 | I did my homework on PWS before going round to dinner . |
| 9 | Then I came back to the courts at Bisham again before going back to school again at 3pm for history and then I come back and play again afterwards . |
| 10 | A coach back to the team 's hotel gave him enough time for a shower and snack lunch before going back to work — more throw downs , a second net against the quicks , and a burst of fielding practice before dusk set in . |
| 11 | Sal , who was working shifts in a cafe on the Commercial Road , went back to work on Boxing Day , and Grace remained on duty at the London hospital throughout the so-called holiday , while Kitty mooched around checking on everyone else 's presents before going back to bed . |
| 12 | Moved by such squalor , volunteers from HMS Gloucester renovated an orphanage in just eleven hours , before going back to sea and action stations . |
| 13 | This was no mean achievement for the son of immigrant parents , and for a man who had left school five years before going back to college . |
| 14 | He continued to drink quietly for another hour before going in to dinner . |
| 15 | They were sitting in the study at home , toasting by the fire before going in to dinner . |
| 16 | A year later , having done a super job as Editorial Assistant before going off to university last autumn , we finally got around to organising the lesson ! |
| 17 | She thought she was rather like a mother , making sure a child had eaten before going off to school , did not scruple to say , " Are you sure you 've had enough ? |
| 18 | By the time I was ten , Granpa allowed me to lay out the morning wares on the barrow before going off to school for the day . |
| 19 | " I believe in the instinctive wisdom of our well-tried democracy , " declared Churchill in 1945 — shortly before going down to election defeat . |
| 20 | His season was cut to just four races , the first three of which he won impressively before going down to Forest Sun in the Rendlesham Hurdle at Kempton already suffering from a bug . |
| 21 | Try and do something about your face before going down to dinner . ’ |
| 22 | Originally from St Albans , his first CCG site was at Arderseir , on the Moray Firth , followed by Projects on various sites , including Shetland , and at the Torness Nuclear Power Station site , where he opened site services before moving on to village accommodation . |
| 23 | Trainees should obtain nine points or more before moving on to Goal 4 . |
| 24 | Before moving on to look at the new developments that I suggested initially might constitute the basis for a redirection in writing , it is worth considering some of the shortcomings of the frequency-count approach just described . |
| 25 | Cynics may scoff that he is yet another stiff-upper-lip , old-soldier type , having come like so many of the august men of the Club from a military background before moving on to sugar . |
| 26 | On Jan. 17 it met Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto before moving on to meet mujaheddin leaders in Peshawar . |
| 27 | Before moving on to make use of the database , it was necessary to assess whether or not the data itself was valid for the organisation being studied , bearing in mind that so far the exercise had been a systems-thinking one , rather than a study of what was happening in practice . |
| 28 | Should negotiating executives discuss the political scene or the latest art exhibition before getting down to business ? |
| 29 | Birds feeding on the road seem to wait until the very last minute before zooming off to safety , though inexperienced fledglings normally suffer a high casualty rate on our early summer roads . |
| 30 | Before logging on to LIFESPAN to create a Charge Code , the storage directory must be set up by the LIFESPAN Manager , so that when new modules are created and associated with a Charge Code , they can be automatically stored by LIFESPAN in a specific storage directory . |