Example sentences of "before [v-ing] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ballad Of The White Horse ’ starts beautifully and threatens to break down , with Louise babbling like she 's speaking in tongues before bringing it all back into some semblance of melodic order . |
| 2 | ‘ Ballad Of The White Horse ’ starts beautifully and threatens to break down , with Louise babbling like she 's speaking in tongues before bringing it all back into some semblance of melodic order . |
| 3 | Do n't be put off by the delicate appearance of this cake , but do allow plenty of time for the separate pieces of icing to harden well before assembling them all together . |
| 4 | This would involve a small bus ferrying disabled shoppers from their homes and taking them into the heart of the town before returning them direct to their front door . |
| 5 | The Prince rose and waved him round the table to the chair next to his before serving them both with the best wine the clerk had tasted in months . |
| 6 | Both are constricting snakes , wrapping the length of their bodies around a helpless mammal , and killing it by suffocation before swallowing it whole . |
| 7 | Gloria knocked on a panelled door before pushing it open . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , you might have told me you were a quintuple amputee before getting me all excited . ’ |
| 9 | He set it down on one of the small tables , then handed her a paper napkin , a spoon and a fork before giving her one of the bowls . |
| 10 | Mr Mackie claimed Murray had heated up some heroin in a spoon and injected himself before giving him enough heroin for his own injection . |
| 11 | When she finished , Nick had a few muttered words with his colleagues before asking her one or two questions , mostly concerning times , places and names . |
| 12 | Roman kissed her deeply , murmuring comfortingly before taking them both to heights that owed more to heaven than to earth . |
| 13 | One useful trick is to put yourself in the position of their bank manager and ask what conditions you would impose before lending them any more money . |
| 14 | Before washing we first cleaned any food residue using earth , pine needles or grass ; utensils were pushed into the earth until they were clean then we washed in the soapy water ; rinsed , then dipped into a pot of boiling water to sterilize . |
| 15 | He listened for some time before judging it safe to tiptoe downstairs . |
| 16 | Frankie peered around the angle of the wall , trying to measure the length of her chain before judging it safe to enter by the back door . |
| 17 | Midway , a loop road branches from the A683 and runs at a higher level before rejoining it two and a half miles further on . |
| 18 | Like Carolyn , she had to look at Bill Kay with new eyes before finding him sexy . |
| 19 | However , MPs heard that Department of Employment officials got in touch with British Coal to discuss the legal implications of not consulting with the miners before making them redundant . |
| 20 | Mr Adamec is to reveal his proposed cabinet to the opposition tomorrow before making it public . |
| 21 | Thieves , having stolen a car , take it for a joy ride and then strip it before setting it alight to destroy the evidence . |
| 22 | To add insult to injury , the British No 2 led by a set and 5–1 before throwing it all away . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd have to know you a lot better before telling you such things . ’ |
| 24 | STEPHEN HENDRY , brimming with confidence after beating Steve Davis in the final of the Stormseal UK Snooker Open , inflicted an 8-0 session whitewash on Terry Griffiths before beating him 9-3 in their best-of-17-frame quarter-final of the Everest World Matchplay Championship at Brentwood yesterday . |
| 25 | He whistled now and tinkled an imaginary drum , before offering me three teeth of golden maize . |
| 26 | It had been switched off after two senior doctors had twice run tests on the patient before declaring him dead . |
| 27 | If ‘ fascism ’ appeared to them an appropriate name for their enemy , then perhaps comfortable historians half-a-century later should hesitate before declaring them wrong . |