Example sentences of "[noun] just before " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the same expression he 'd had when backing away from the struggle around the campfire just before Osvaldo — his beard still smouldering — had put him under arrest . |
| 2 | Tribout , says Moon , tried to repeat Ben 's Maginot Line at Bolx just before leaving for America — he had already repeated it once — and failed . |
| 3 | The opera was called ‘ sister Chiang ’ & was about a girl who was leader in the guerrilla fighting in Szechwan just before the liberation . |
| 4 | There 's a marvellous moment of stasis just before the final presto of this first movement ( a riveting tenuto E natural in the violins ) , while the finale is particularly notable for the rapture of its luminous string transformation ( dolcissimo ) in the central maestoso ) . |
| 5 | North Korean citizens were given a one-month salary bonus just before the opening of the World Youth Festival in Pyongyang in July . |
| 6 | The third , already made half of stone , would be raised through the night to ground level and across that , the attack would be made in the dark just before dawn . |
| 7 | He 'd joined the International Brigade just before Franco 's final victories and been sent back when he was on his way to Cardiff to catch the potato boat to Bilbao . |
| 8 | Von Gallwitz was a talented artillerist , having been the Inspector General of the Field Artillery just before the war , and more recently had added to his lustre in leading the Eleventh Army to victory in Serbia . |
| 9 | This time , we succeeded and indeed met no difficulties apart from one awkward step across a gap just before the cairn . |
| 10 | On the final lap , Mark Smyth ( O'Rourkes Coal ) opened a small gap just before the climb and he was joined first by Graham , then Alastair Martin ( Ardsike the Bike ) and Gerald Irvine ( Toyota North Down ) with Cormac McCann ( Phoenix ) the last to make a successful effort to bridge 21 the gap . |
| 11 | Police stopped the BMW travelling at speed just before midnight with only one headlight on . |
| 12 | Because you see all that we 've heard is that gentlemen just before Mr he listened at the door before but of course the front door is nowhere near the master bedroom . |
| 13 | McCourt said Royal Gait was cruising turning into the home straight , but began to lose his action just before the final flight . |
| 14 | Remove from tin and decorate with whipped cream and caramel shapes just before serving . |
| 15 | The connection to the cistern ballvalve is made with a ½in tap connector : fit a servicing valve just before this . |
| 16 | Do n't forget to fit a servicing valve just before the ballvalve and gatevalves to all the cold water feeds : these are connected after a short run of pipe except for the feed to the hot water cylinder , where the gatevalve is usually fitted in the airing cupboard near to the cylinder . |
| 17 | Capped 10 times by Ireland the former Ulster captain was forced to take a back seat just before Christmas because of a recurring back injury . |
| 18 | The police always looked on top in an eventful first half and translated their superiority into goals just before half-time . |
| 19 | It belonged to an extremely important erm civic family , Thomas and John Smith , who are the two important ones during the civil war , Thomas was mayor just before the War , John Smith was a member of parliament in the Long Parliament , and erm there 's a slightly complicated story to the house , Thomas moved out of it just before the war and built another one way up the street , but John stayed there , and another important landowner in Marston , Umpton Croak , owned the other half of it . |
| 20 | What this meant was that sitting MPs should no longer be reselected automatically by local parties just before a general election was held . |
| 21 | so they 're coming erm Friday just before dinner time they said between eleven and twelve and er they 're leaving Saturday afternoon about three |
| 22 | Tokyo : Index-linked buying just before the close drove prices up and enabled the Nikkei average to end with a gain of 140.19 points at 35,522.99 . |
| 23 | They were standing on the terrace just before lunch , watching the shrinking white mantle that had covered the slopes for the last two days , when a dark shape moving fast appeared further up the valley . |
| 24 | It was that hour just before dawn when the light is at its trickiest , when the spirits of the quarry are at their lowest , the hour of the hunter . |
| 25 | two fifty to ten twenty nine , well , come back to the same sort of time , the hour just before that , say two fifty to nine fifty , what would two fifty to nine fifty be ? |
| 26 | My approach to Albert Spanswick led to a secret meeting at my house in Fulham just before the TUC Conference in September 1982 . |
| 27 | The 325-acre Highrove estate was bought by the prince just before his marriage to the then Lady Diana Spencer . |
| 28 | Mark Riley scored London 's touchdown just before the break . |
| 29 | Both carried US military personnel just before Christmas , and in both cases there was a terrorist claim of responsibility . ’ |
| 30 | But , after a chilling encounter with a member of the Stasi just before the fall of the Wall ( we see it in a flashback ) , she has come running back to England , her marriage and her Christian belief in tatters . |