Example sentences of "before [pers pn] [verb] up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I try to see Oreste , or used to before I gave up the torture , but all I see is a baby , fat and dimpled … ’ |
| 2 | I the car I had before I gave up the company car was a Mercedes Sports S L |
| 3 | Perhaps she was a bit like that as a child , Dexter sometimes wondered , always eating the pastry round the outside of a tart before she gobbled up the fruit-crammed centre . |
| 4 | Rodi 's second husband Gordon , 64 , died two months before she picked up the cheque from Bergerac star John Nettles . |
| 5 | If you 're on a long run conditions may change from the top to the bottom ; and when you feel your skis biting through the top surface it 's time to head back to the piste before you break up the snow too much . |
| 6 | You are advised to keep your answer to question 5 as concise as possible ( no more than a few sentences ) ; be sure that you know exactly what you want to say before you pick up the phone . |
| 7 | You must also put this same logical name assignment into your SYS$MANAGER:LIFESPAN_STARTUP.COM file ( Section 1.5.1 ) , so that you can be absolutely sure it will always be assigned before you start up the LIFESPAN process which will use it . |
| 8 | I 'll tell you when to fire up again just before we go up the bank . ’ |
| 9 | Before we go up the train , can we get to my house first ? |
| 10 | Well not last week but the week before we went up the Harvester . |
| 11 | Maybe someone will draw curtains across the frosted glass before they turn up the disco tape . |
| 12 | When Galvone leapt aboard and seated himself beside his chief Hauser made his unsettling comment before they started up the rotors . |
| 13 | The writer may well have assumed that most book buyers already know of the existence of a writer called Ernest Hemingway , and even if they did not before they picked up the book , they would already have seen his name on the cover before turning to read this biographical sketch inside . |
| 14 | Shortly before he took up the study of genetics , the American biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan wrote a book , Evolution and Adaptation ( 1903 ) , arguing that evolution was governed solely by the production of saltations , and had nothing to do with adapting the species to its environment . |
| 15 | Invited to join the King , with his companions the Chancellor Colonel Sapt and his aide-de-camp Fritz von Tarlenheim , on the ruler 's last night of freedom before he takes up the burden of the Crown , Rassendyll is conveniently available to step in when the monarch collapses , drugged by wine presented by his jealous brother Black Michael . |
| 16 | The buyer , on the other hand , wishes to put off acceptance as long as possible , so that he can be sure the goods are totally satisfactory to him before he gives up the opportunity of rejecting them . |
| 17 | He pouches the ball with the eye of a major league outfielder , and that is because he was a player of some repute before he gave up the bat for the bag at the start of the 1970s . |
| 18 | He leant on the car and lit a cigarette , puffing at it before he picked up the radio again . |