Example sentences of "before he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morel died soon after , but not before he had the bitter pleasure of seeing the Labour Government brought down with the aid of a ‘ red scare ’ engineered , it appeared at the time , by Foreign Office officials . |
| 2 | And of course on the morning it was difficult to tell because before he took the first test he appeared to be fine until really the , the very last minute . |
| 3 | On the next day , he had to appear again before the Emperor and was given a pair of white gloves to put on before he took the Royal pulse ; he pronounced His Majesty to be in good health , which pleased the Emperor . |
| 4 | Well , right he 's , this was probably written before he got the second one , because they would have done this last term |
| 5 | He summoned his courage and said so to the grim-faced man before he left the sick room . |
| 6 | To which party did Sir Cyril Smith belong before he rejoined the Liberal Party ? |
| 7 | Sometimes , before he drank the fourth or fifth glass of Côtes-du-Rhone that would incapacitate him , he thought with guilt of the Flanders fields , with impotence of the forests where wolves ranged , — with the sense of temptation , secret delight , and energy welling up from unknown sources of Gauguin 's cold bluster , of Vincent 's two voices . |
| 8 | Yet before he made the astonishing leap from Paupers ' Alley with Cambridge United to Millionaires ' Row with Manchester City Dublin , 23 , had to learn his lessons the hard way . |
| 9 | Levitt was rejected for the Queens Award only 12 months before he secured the top honour . |
| 10 | Before he reached the small block of a dozen bed-sitter flats , Alan Millet knew this would be his last call . |
| 11 | Somersaulting before he reached the opposite side of the recreation room , Rostov flexed his legs and allowed himself to come gently to rest . |
| 12 | The drawing just pre-dated the wilder stories of Modigliani 's debauchery , before he became the established drunk of Montparnasse in the eyes of the world . |
| 13 | It was several moments before he replaced the little oil in the box along with Tommy 's other possessions . |
| 14 | Even before he touched the exposed flesh , she could feel her nipples tingling , tightening to aching points , thrusting proud and carmine under the caressing gaze . |
| 15 | George Broomham was questioned , but only briefly , before he admitted the whole sordid affair . |
| 16 | In addition , ‘ bounty money ’ was paid from a fund created by Michelins , the tyre manufacturers ; Guynemer , the French ‘ as des as ’ , earned before he died the huge sum of approximately 15,000 francs ( which he handed over to a foundation for wounded airmen ) . |
| 17 | He had a regular mistress and he drew out that money to pay her off before he married the other one . ’ |
| 18 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 19 | His father was a full back in his professional career before he joined the Northern League circuit as a manager . |
| 20 | ‘ Could a woman have beaten back the Scots , forcing King David to come to terms before he plundered the entire north ? ’ |
| 21 | He was intrigued to analyse her dreams and encouraged her to write them down before he discussed the hidden messages they may have contained . |
| 22 | If one accepts the needs for a general state of preparedness for the whole province , as would have been the case with Albinus before he removed the greater part of the army to Gaul , then clearly the most important centres would have been included . |
| 23 | Peter Powell 's adventures with kites had already put him into the headlines when he ‘ flew ’ his grandmother , long before he perfected the diamond-shaped stunter that made him a worldwide name from 1974 . |
| 24 | ‘ Get out now , ’ Shamlou ordered the other two terrorists and waited for them before he entered the makeshift cage . |
| 25 | He liked to finish it each morning before he fetched the new day 's papers . |
| 26 | I urged him to have a few of the young daughters of the gentlefolk before he established the provisional government at the Smolny Institute . |