Example sentences of "before they [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is less clear is the extent to which a demonstrable need must be proven before they insist on the adoption of otherwise practicable control measures . |
| 2 | Now we 're on the road , er , let's see what other goodies we 've got over here going on , oh , yes , we 're checking out how well people are being briefed before they came on the course . |
| 3 | ‘ Despite the appalling business of dropping GMTV in it three weeks before they went on the air , it was far better to make a clean break . |
| 4 | Their rugby was essentially unlovable , not because it was dull ( it was n't ) but because it had a rock-hard edge which caused opponents to feel intimidated before they went on the field — and sometimes with good cause since there were plenty of occasions when the ‘ manliness ’ of which Neath made so much was actually foul play , plain and simple . |
| 5 | She had been noting various titles during Joyce 's discourse ; there was a new book about bats that Edward would want , and one or two things she would like to get hold of herself — the sole perquisite of this trade was a surreptitious early pick of incoming titles before they went on the shelves . |
| 6 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
| 7 | Nothing to do whether it was you from , from Saturday he 's never been the same , will you pick up your pen before they go on the floor , what else have you got lurking on the bottom of your bed ? |
| 8 | It was n't long before they landed on the Moon . |
| 9 | I held out my free hand to catch the gooey bits before they fell on the rug and , mischievously I thought , Dawn proceeded to place them in a precise bloody pile in the palm of my hand . |
| 10 | Initial proofs of all entries requiring attention will be delivered to lexicographers before they work on the material for the first time . |