Example sentences of "before he [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he came to the department last month , Peckham was director of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation in London , which coordinates numerous research institutes . |
| 2 | Jack walked through the quiet roads for almost an hour before he came to the bottom of Monument Hill . |
| 3 | So is it , was it , was she on dr erm drugs before he came to the flats or is it |
| 4 | ‘ You think Newley checked back with him before he went to the cottage ? ’ |
| 5 | He had been Private Secretary to my uncle when he was Viceroy , and later Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier of India before he went to the Sudan . |
| 6 | Before he went to the hospital , John Coffin had had a telephone call from his current girlfriend . |
| 7 | Maxim asked carefully : ‘ Did he see you before he went to the country , when he first came back from Germany ? ’ |
| 8 | Stories vary widely , some say he took off his apron and laid down his knife before he went to the Bank to tackle the Manager . |
| 9 | It may be , of course , that the intention is to numb his senses before he gets to the umpteenth and penultimate clause which requires him to foot the bill for the monstrosity . |
| 10 | They always saw his jokes before he got to the punch line . |
| 11 | Before he got to the real problem . |
| 12 | But before he got to the newsagent 's he met , coming out of Fawley Road with a small boy and smaller girl , his first cousin once removed , Tina Darne . |
| 13 | It seemed forever before he got to the centre of the stage . |
| 14 | ‘ Pint of Bass , please , ’ I ordered , so that it was half-pulled before he got to the bar . |
| 15 | He stopped the chauffeur wearily before he got to the Book . |
| 16 | In newsomes situation I would have maybe challenged him before he got to the box and maybe given a foul away in the process . |
| 17 | Twenty minutes elapsed before he returned to the bridge where Talbot was now alone : as the ship was no longer under way , Harrison had retired to his Mess . |
| 18 | It had been four months altogether before he returned to the Works , by which time Andrew Jones had been installed in the showrooms as assistant salesman . |
| 19 | The vicar managed to catch him before he fell to the floor , and he was removed to his home , where he died on the Friday morning , 8 September . |
| 20 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 21 | But if the England manager deplored the lack of flair in the squad he took to Sweden then it can only be a matter of time before he turns to the Bart Man . |
| 22 | He started it while he was living with his mother in Wimbledon , before he moved to the School . |
| 23 | His first transfer to Tottenham split two spells with Millwall before he moved to the Dell , where his no-nonsense approach and disciplinary problems earned him a hard-man reputation . |
| 24 | Suppose that before he looks to the legal record he thinks it would be best to decide for the defendant in McLoughlin because it would be cheaper for the community as a whole if prospective victims insure against emotional injury than if drivers insure against causing it . |
| 25 | Probably the clue to the most plausible explanation — and the one put forward by the man most likely to know , his jockey Dick Francis — lies in the fact that just before he slid to the ground Devon Loch pricked his ears , in the way that a horse might do just before jumping a fence — or on suddenly hearing an unfamiliar noise . |
| 26 | CHRIS Patten may have to wait a year or two before he returns to the Commons . |
| 27 | ‘ I hope it will not be long before he returns to the front bench . ’ |