Example sentences of "before [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it is across the road to the social club for the third pint , before tackling the first of the long uphill stretches to the Lamb at Denholme and the fourth pint . |
| 2 | I had a further powerful incentive to learning the language , for SPG , the missionary society which supported me and thirty or more other missionaries in Burma , men and women , had a rule that no missionary could marry before passing the first two language examinations . |
| 3 | Before writing The First Wives Club , she was an author of children 's books ( and she is not telling who ) ; before that , a marketing executive , a role , she says , which instructed her in the ‘ fear and loathing ’ with which corporate America regards women , and the depths to which it will stoop to deny them equal status . |
| 4 | Before normalising the first relation given as figure 3.24 , it is necessary to analyse the meaning of the relation . |
| 5 | First , the curt instruction to make a mayonnaise ‘ a la main ’ , though this proved much easier than expected when Eric started us off with three egg yolks and a healthy dollop of strong French mustard ( tip of the year for this amateur chef ) before adding the first drop of oil . |
| 6 | Gooch was so disillusioned by his last full tour to India that he barely unpacked his bags at home in Essex at the end of it before joining the first rebel tour to South Africa . |
| 7 | Weaver had practised his right-hand script before scrawling the first note to Jack Stone . |
| 8 | It formerly powered Charlton Mill , before reaching the first mill on the outskirts of the expanding town , Sandford Mill . |
| 9 | It comes as no coincidence that Juan , who first pioneered electro in the early '80s as part of Cybertron before making the first Detroit records on Model 500 , took his hiatus from the arena when it had become an overcrowded circus . |