Example sentences of "before [verb] at [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One took me rather out of my way , before turning at last , at right angles , up the hill and home ; but it was the main road and was lit . |
| 2 | Later , in my cabin , I treated myself to a long , languorous Omnipure sauna before turning at last to the task of choosing my outfit for the meeting with the Emissary . |
| 3 | He lingered to shine his lamp at the half-finished water colour in the window before turning at last into the alleyway leading to the churchyard . |
| 4 | Two of them — Iris Murdoch and William Golding — are said to have composed a good deal of fiction before succeeding at last with a publisher ; succeeding , as Golding once remarked , not because he had tried to please but because for once he stopped trying and wrote the book he had always wanted to write . |
| 5 | In that time I followed the course of the massive city walls which over the centuries had sustained so many assaults before falling at last to the Turkish onslaught . |