Example sentences of "[adv] before they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long before they reached the relevant section . |
| 2 | Dawn overtook them long before they reached the Esk , or even the Lyne . |
| 3 | Sometimes I 'd watch their kites going down into the fields overhead , down until they dwindled away out of sight , long before they reached the tops of the trees You ca n't do that often , though , because of all the smog . |
| 4 | Fison 's Horticulture , the largest peat extractor in Britain , points out that much of the lowland areas owned by them , including Thorne Waste and Hatfield Moors , had already been spoilt by extraction , long before they bought the land . |
| 5 | Just before they reached the track leading to Yatton Farm , however , they received a shock . |
| 6 | They drove back in silence for a while and then , just before they reached the house where William 's mother now lived , William said , ‘ It was the reason my mum went into business , you know . ’ |
| 7 | Just before they reached the station she said , ‘ Was it the birds ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Corton Beach were tipped in the national newspapers just before they left the OTC to start on the London Stock Exchange 's third market . |
| 10 | Hello ! has won a reputation as heralding disaster by featuring families apparently in bliss just before they hit the rocks . |
| 11 | There certainly were opportunities , therefore , for children and young people to contribute both directly and indirectly to the household economy even before they entered the labour market , and on balance the evidence suggests that girls were likely to be more substantial contributors than boys , especially in the provision and exchange of domestic services , although boys may have had more opportunities to earn money . |
| 12 | International prop PHILIPPE GIMBERT from Beglès-Bordeaux , a club which had acquired an unsavoury reputation even before they won the French Championship , has been fined FF8,000 ( about £850 ) for damages resulting from a punch in a club match against Rodez in December 1990 . |
| 13 | Even before they closed the mine we knew that once they retired my husband we 'd have to move . |
| 14 | Howard had anticipated losses well before they reached the river . |
| 15 | They saw the camp-fires lighting up the winter dusk well before they reached the Hoddom area , near where the Water of Milk joined Annan , which meant , of course , that the enemy ahead presumably would be apt to see them also ; but it was practically impossible to hide the presence of a major army anyway . |
| 16 | But I think the pre er well not the present A nine but the A nine that was there before they made the new one , it was made about eighteen thirty I think . |