Example sentences of "before [being] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been interrogated at the Comando di Legione in Parma before being locked up in the Citadella to await removal to Germany . |
| 2 | Most of the inhabitants of the block were walking their last circuits before being locked in , and there was an absence of noise which merged with the deepening gloom . |
| 3 | All weapons are cleaned and examined before being locked back into the armoury , then personal kit can be dealt with . |
| 4 | She had been as long as 33–1 in the offices in the morning , opened 16–1 on course , before being sent off at 8–1 , and ironically it had been an eye-catching workout with the Luca Cumani-trained Red Slippers last week that convinced Bell that he had a worthy contender . |
| 5 | If the material is not topical and is delayed for some time before being sent out the date should be changed . |
| 6 | Half-plate pictures , if they are well cropped before being sent out , are equally acceptable . |
| 7 | The brands were something all Ixmaritians received before being sent out into the world , but only Por Tanssie conducted the procedure without anaesthetic and proper medical care . |
| 8 | While books abound about American pilots and their P-51 Mustangs and B-17 Flying Fortresses , very few books are written about the training that these pilots had to go through before being sent out to fight . |
| 9 | Martin was supported by tailenders Hughes , who made 15 in 55 minutes , and Mike Whitney , who equalled his best Test score of 13 before being run out to end the Australian innings . |
| 10 | Devon won by 73 runs , and Roebuck contributed a mere 6 towards that margin of victory before being run out . |
| 11 | Richardson scored 53 and shared a second wicket partnership of 141 with man-of-the-match Lara , who hit 14 boundaries and made his runs from 132 deliveries before being run out . |
| 12 | The giving of these notices at the proper times is important because they enable your council to inspect your work , to ensure that it is important because they enable your council to inspect your work , to ensure that it is satisfactory before being covered up . |
| 13 | This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock . |
| 14 | Ballots for service began in Nov 1916 , and recruits for the infantry and engineers were sent to Trentham Camp , near Wellington , for training before being posted overseas . |
| 15 | In early trading , the Footsie one hundred gained a massive a hundred and fifty points before being cut back by early profit taking , and renewed uncertainty from the Gulf . |
| 16 | Having been printed on fibre-based paper , the images were masked out , hand-coloured and sulphide-toned before being cut out and mounted onto plywood . |
| 17 | The next instant Luce was seized and whirled around joyously before being swung up into his arms . |
| 18 | ‘ I was in the water about 20 minutes before being fished out into a lifeboat and eventually two destroyers arrived to take the survivors to Reyjavik . |
| 19 | If Spot , who won more than £1,500 for owner John Adams before being struck down by cancer , can resume his winning ways , it 'll be a bonus for his connections , who had to find more than £250 for his two operations . |
| 20 | The children spent two days in hospital at Macon , near Lyons , before being flown home yesterday to their worried parents . |
| 21 | In May 1945 he was arrested by the American forces and taken to a Disciplinary Training Centre near Pisa , before being flown back to Washington to stand trial for treason . |
| 22 | The Lord Chancellor has made it clear on the front of that document that they have been issued before being finalised so as to facilitate discussion . |
| 23 | When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945 I had just completed my Higher School Certificate in the traditional three subjects , with a year to spare before being called up for National Service . |
| 24 | Laughton was sent , against his wishes , to study the hotel trade at Claridge 's in London before being called up at the end of World War I ; he was rapidly invalided out of the army after being gassed on the western front in 1918 . |
| 25 | When I had finished , I was made to wait two hours before being called back into the office for questioning . |
| 26 | Scuffles broke out everywhere as our officers came out of hiding and pounced on six members of the gang who bolted into the woods and sand dunes around the bay before being rounded up with the assistance of police dogs . |
| 27 | Mr Major met Mr Michael Fallon , the Darlington candidate , and Mr Nick Jopling , who is fighting the Sedgefield seat , before being swept off in a cavalcade to Yarm . |
| 28 | It was considered that the larger Devon found in Somerset formed a link to the big , powerful ploughing oxen of Sussex which , even in the mid-nineteenth century , were regarded also as valuable beef makers , worked only for three or four years before being turned over to the fatteners . |
| 29 | Ships were carved from the blighted forests with supernatural speed , and raiders moved as far as the Isle of the Dead before being turned back by the warding spells . |
| 30 | Joey Kelly has become something of a racing machine for he was only beaten a short head at Enniskillen last Saturday , then won at Dromore on Wednesday before being turned out again yesterday . |