Example sentences of "before [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she began to choke she kicked and struggled for breath before tumbling down into nowhere . |
| 2 | They dropped the stretcher by Tommy 's side and dragged him on to the canvas before jogging back towards the trench . |
| 3 | A Stealer tore a trooper 's chest open before darting back into concealment … |
| 4 | Go past High Close youth hostel before branching off to the right on to a path which goes around the lower slopes of Loughrigg Fell to Rydal village ( 2.5 miles ) . |
| 5 | Sometimes the problem begins with a common opening part before branching out into its subdivisions . |
| 6 | In patients who underwent uncomplicated major surgery , however , CRP rose above baseline eight to 12 hours after incision , and reached a maximum in 48 to 72 hours , before levelling off towards normal over five to 14 days . |
| 7 | It rises steadily to a height of almost 600 feet above the loch before levelling out at the top of a headland ; cars may be parked here and a short stroll reveals an extensive panorama of exquisite beauty without a discordant note . |
| 8 | The Range Rover left it behind quickly on a steep road which wound up in hairpin bends for a mile before levelling out on the road to Haverfordwest . |
| 9 | We left Paris behind and drove off on a series of flyovers and underpasses , before drawing up outside the gates of Fort St Nogent on the outskirts . |
| 10 | In the cottage he dumped her none too gently in one of the armchairs before the fire , pausing only to stir the embers back to life before stamping out towards the kitchen . |
| 11 | ‘ Harlots , ’ replied Ellen repressively , waiting until the wagon was some distance ahead before stepping on to the bridge . |
| 12 | The man in the leather jacket stood on the platform for a moment longer before stepping up into the carriage next to Donna 's . |
| 13 | Just a week before stepping down on May 27th , his camp put out a proposal for radical tax changes in the city . |
| 14 | On March 12 , shortly before stepping down as President , José Sarney created three Amazon reserves for use by rubber tappers , in response to demands from the National Council of Rubber Tappers . |
| 15 | For 15 years he served as warehouse foreman before stepping down from that position to take responsibility of the new pre-mix plant . |
| 16 | Then he allowed the body to drop to the floor , watching it twitch for a second before stepping back into the shadows from which he 'd emerged . |
| 17 | He paused before stepping out onto the roof , a look of horror on his face . |
| 18 | He undressed , but could not bother to do so in the proper order , to remove his socks before stepping out of trousers and boxer shorts . |
| 19 | I shook his hand , before stepping out into the street . |
| 20 | Pausing just before stepping out into view , she absorbed the scene with a tight squeeze inside her heart . |
| 21 | We stayed for an hour and a half taking photographs and looking round before wading back for another hour with our ammo boxes again . |
| 22 | ‘ If you ran a mile race , you would go off fairly quickly then settle at an even pace before building up towards the end . |
| 23 | She too should find suitable work , and start with just a few hours , perhaps one or two days a week , before building up towards full-time work if she wishes . |
| 24 | making a brief but dazzling comeback before crashing on to the spikes of despair once more when John fell to his death from a lofty scaffold , and history repeated itself |
| 25 | The decapitated head spun like a ball in the air , lips still moving ; his trunk stood for a few seconds in its own fountain of hot red gore before crashing on to the blood-stained ice . |
| 26 | None the less , before galloping off down the ‘ law and order ’ campaign trail , it might be prudent to consider whether murder , rape , robbery , assault , and other crimes focused on by state officials , politicians , the media , and the criminal justice system do constitute the major part of our real crime problem . |
| 27 | Isabel gave the grey a last pat and made sure the door was securely closed before speeding back through the rain to her own shelter . |
| 28 | Before signing on with an agency : |
| 29 | The certificate was also awarded to Sgt. Curry , who joined the TA in 1965 and served with the Royal Army Service Corps and the Royal Corps of Transport before signing on with 124 Recovery Company ( Tyne Electrical Engineers ) REME in 1971 . |
| 30 | BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR ANY OF THE PRESENT CELLNET OR VODAFONE networks , would-be subscribers should consider what 's in the cellphone pipeline . |