Example sentences of "before [v-ing] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Care must be taken to remove the tommy bar from the collet before switching on the motor — it is all too easy to forget , and the result is a worn motor . |
| 2 | He showed them into the lounge and drew the threadbare curtains before switching on the light . |
| 3 | We hung up and I lit a cigarette before switching on the radio . |
| 4 | Before switching on the engine he studied his maps . |
| 5 | Did they follow him on his pub-crawl , clinically waiting until he became suitably juiced before switching on the camera ? |
| 6 | After an eventful journey to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides , off the north-west coast of Scotland , he was joined by his younger brother , aged around 23 , James Keith , who had travelled through France to Paris like a military pied Piper , collecting Jacobites as he went , before embarking on a little 25-ton ship at Le Havre to sail round the west coast of Ireland . |