Example sentences of "before [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Resting his back against the tree , he switched off the flashlight and waited for his irises to expand before starting down the meadow . |
| 32 | This is a very nasty rip-off trick to play on the unsuspecting public as a petrol crank will last until well out of the guarantee period before giving up the unequal struggle . |
| 33 | Sarella lay fuming in bed for a few minutes before flinging back the duvet and running to the window . |
| 34 | You know , before running up the door ! |
| 35 | Later the same afternoon he claimed cutlass , E4 6b which follows the grooved arête left of Sgian Dubh before finishing up the crackline right of The Peeler . |
| 36 | Past Bracken Hill beyond Out Brough I looked down at Bainbridge snoozing in the sun before dropping down the last half-mile to the green and the Post Office for something to still the dust . |
| 37 | Before handing down the death sentence , he asked if the two men had anything to say . |
| 38 | When she was castaway on Radio 4 's Desert Island Discs — a year before taking over the show — Sue told the then presenter Michael Parkinson that the luxury she would want on the island would be an endless supply of clean sheets and an iron . |
| 39 | McLachlan then had a brief spell working in the pharmaceutical industry before taking over the practice of Cecil H. Cribb , public analyst and consultant . |
| 40 | This continuity existed among both employers and employees in many cases so that there are many farmers ' sons who also had to ‘ serve their time ’ alongside the hired labour force before taking over the farm and many elderly farm workers who can remember instructing their current employer in the ways of the farm when he was a small boy . |
| 41 | Brinson , before taking over the Gulbenkian Foundation in London in 1972 had chaired an arts committee of the Foundation , set up to discuss and provide financial help to the performing arts , and particularly to dance , which had had , in his words ‘ a raw deal ’ . |
| 42 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 43 | Features , like seams and folds , should be marked for visual effects before taking up the chisel , as inaccuracies can not be corrected once a deep gouge or V-tool has been used . |
| 44 | Additionally , if you have received treatment or advice for a medical condition during the 2 years before taking up the Hospital Income Plan , your cover for the condition commences after you have been insured for 24 months or if you are admitted to hospital for that condition during this period then as soon after the 24 months as you have been free of in-patient treatment for 12 months . |
| 45 | They then move a little further down before taking up the major part of their trip , largely unbroken to the Gulf of Mexico except for stopovers to explore the towns and recover from incidents , including loss of their canoe on one occasion . |
| 46 | She sha she has also asked if her place could be deferred for a year so that she may gain as much relevant experience as possible before taking up the course . |
| 47 | He began as an alto player in the 1930s playing with such musicians as Teddy Buckner and Jimmy Lunceford , before taking up the tenor saxophone at the request of Howard McGhee in the mid-1940s . |
| 48 | FIG claims that Kevin saw his doctor with backache before taking out the policy and despite letters from his doctor , refused to budge until TODAY became involved . |
| 49 | The new law is said to alter the priorities of the operation to safeguard Venice , giving precedence to overhauling the conditions in the Lagoon such as reinforcing the shore-line and mud-flats , controlling pollution , checking on fish-farms and the eventual elimination of petrol tankers , before carrying out the installation of the flood barriers . |
| 50 | Preincubation of neutrophils for 30–60 minutes at 37°C with colchicine ( 2.5×10 - 5 M to 2.5×10 - 4 M ) ( Sigma ) before carrying out the indirect immunohistological labelling did not affect the staining pattern . |
| 51 | They then used bogus invoices to fool Lloyd 's into covering their alleged losses , before carrying out the second stage of a ‘ double sting ’ stealing £1.2 million of the £1.8 million insurance pay-out from their company , London-based Inca Gemstones . |
| 52 | Even so you may still want to get some more vocabulary before making out the check lists . |
| 53 | He picked the clothes up off the floor and put them away in the wardrobe , and found the President a clean pair of slacks and a shirt before sweeping up the broken glass . |
| 54 | Spread out the roots before putting back the soil . |
| 55 | That surprised him , and he paused a moment before putting back the sheet . |
| 56 | In the next three hours they heard and saw nothing ashore before setting up the signal light and infrared beam at 0015 that Sunday morning : an hour or so later the first craft — carrying the Rangers — came past , some 10 minutes late . |
| 57 | KnitLeader owners can use any suitable block , but the number of rows to be knitted in each piece has to be worked out before setting up the garter carriage . |
| 58 | Before setting up the charity , Pauline worked as the arts education officer for Derry City Council and realised the North West needed a play resource centre to ‘ turn waste things into creative things ’ . |
| 59 | Before setting out the law , it is important to discover to what extent there exists any unifying principle or premiss which draws together the individual legal rules . |
| 60 | Two preliminary points need to be made before setting out the argument against secularism . |