Example sentences of "before [v-ing] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stayed for an hour and a half taking photographs and looking round before wading back for another hour with our ammo boxes again . |
| 2 | BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR ANY OF THE PRESENT CELLNET OR VODAFONE networks , would-be subscribers should consider what 's in the cellphone pipeline . |
| 3 | Check your existing lender 's redemption charge before signing up for a replacement loan . |
| 4 | SCARBOROUGH manager Ray McHale completed two key close season signings before jetting off for a week 's break in Greece yesterday . |
| 5 | It said it one of the guitar magazines I use my all the time before , before winding up for a gig , and all this sees for wrecking one of the guitars ! |
| 6 | Risking everything he grabbed two tomatoes and the biggest apples before bedding down for another night under cover of trees . |
| 7 | Before lining up for the first race of the season it 's off to the now-standard bits-and-bobs shop , where you can spend up to $100,000 upgrading your jalopy . |
| 8 | The cars then travelled south on the A1 before turning off for Ripon . |
| 9 | Before turning in for the night I telephoned Fred Workman to say I would be back at my desk by mid-morning and would be covering the visit of Mr Gladstone Murray to our city , his meetings and his broadcast speech , for the next day 's evening edition . |
| 10 | He was heading for the North Sea coast , which he would cross near Terschelling then follow for a while before turning in for the approach to Aalborg . |
| 11 | On Saturday mornings he would watch the schoolboy games before turning out for his club , initially Dunedin and later St Kilda . |
| 12 | Not only that , but he had worked out in the gym that morning , then managed a half-hour nap before heading out for an unusually late lunchtime start from the VIP terminal at Heathrow . |
| 13 | During the late sixties and early seventies the mining companies brought shortlived booms to the areas in which they were operating , before heading off for other prospects , leaving their wastes and miners behind them . |
| 14 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 15 | As soon as school was finished we used to rush back to her house and start on our homework immediately , so as to have an hour or so for the passeggiata before going back for supper and finishing off . |
| 16 | Jonadab was in the depths of depression : he had kept the stallion in his stable and before going in for their midday meal , both father and sons were in consultation round the gentle grey . |
| 17 | They spend the next hour or so chatting before going in for lunch . |
| 18 | I 'm being silly , it 's not important , she had told herself sternly as she had brushed her teeth before hurrying down for breakfast . |
| 19 | The idea was that the police would wait until they had incontrovertible evidence before moving in for the arrest , but Branson and Draper had barely sat down with the Clarkes before some forty policemen swarmed through the door , knocking over tables and chairs and arresting the two brothers . |
| 20 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought we might have got round to talking new terms before breaking up for the summer , but I was told the board were n't able to arrange a meeting . |
| 22 | Wetherall was up at one point and had two shots blocked before coming back for a third and putting the ball in the net . |
| 23 | That will earn him his RIBA Part I. But then , he has to get a year 's relevant experience in practice before coming back for the final year of his course . |
| 24 | Before the start of harvest , the ewes had been returned to the high moorland pastures to fatten up and build up their strength before coming down for tupping . |
| 25 | Medical practices for instance two days beforehand before coming in for three days . |
| 26 | They are used to cover grass seeds and for final levelling of a tilth , but their main use is for spreading dung and molehills and scratching the surface of grassland after grazing or before shutting up for hay . |
| 27 | Flat rolls are used for levelling grassland and burying small stones before shutting up for hay . |
| 28 | If the glider gets wet before taking off for a high climb , the airbrakes may freeze up and become unusable . |
| 29 | Before sitting down for lunch at Claridge 's yesterday , she told me : ‘ Darling , I really could n't care . |
| 30 | Edward Browning , a night club bouncer , called at his father 's home shortly before setting off for Scotland . |