Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] before it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even rotted FYM must be further broken down before it is fully used . |
| 2 | We ought to go in before it starts to get cold . ’ |
| 3 | The price paid is that the air in the lung is saturated with water vapour , which is lost when the animal breathes out ( although some will be retained in the nasal passages if the air is cooled down before it leaves ) . |
| 4 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |
| 5 | Now , hurry home before it is too late . " |
| 6 | Partnership structures — in industry , education , physical and community development of all sorts — may possibly be the last chance to catch up before it is too late . |
| 7 | And really it has to be said and has to be said historically that I mean the army in a way was left with a job which politicians should have sorted out before it got to that stage . |
| 8 | For reasons such as this it is important to ensure that the ‘ final edition ’ of the interview schedule has been adequately gone over and tried out before it is used in the full-scale field survey . |
| 9 | Yes , of course , that 's a very startling example of a drug which was n't properly checked through before it was used on a mass basis . |
| 10 | I grinned then , I recall , and brought the stunter down fast and acute across the weeds and the water , the sand and the surf , scudding it in across the wind to jerk and zoom just before it hit the girl herself where she sat on the dune top holding and spasmodically jerking the string she held in her hand , connected to the sky . |
| 11 | We 've got to go away before it 's too late . " |
| 12 | Mr Fox planned to build himself a home very near the village , of which he had plans ready , but unfortunately he passed away before it was built . |
| 13 | Nobody participates in meetings for a very good reason : anything at all important is all sewn up before it ever gets on the agenda ’ . |
| 14 | It rained in the sky , in long streaky sheets , but the rain dried up before it reached the ground . |
| 15 | I 've err plugged it in the library , Sir , so it 'll warm up before it starts . |
| 16 | It 's got to stop , and stop now before it 's too late . |
| 17 | A terse request , advising us to ’ clear out before it 's too late' and signed ‘ Wellwisher ’ . |
| 18 | What the Firearms Act provides is a series of inchoate or preventive offences which criminalize conduct even before it has reached the stage of an attempt to commit some substantive offence . |
| 19 | The score indicates how far the ball bounces forward before it comes to a halt . |
| 20 | and she had to go home before it finished . |
| 21 | ‘ They show that a major capital investment , amounting to £160 million in current prices , did not produce much physics and should have been closed long before it was in 1977 . ’ |
| 22 | On Nov. 25 , 1989 , a new block at the Greifswald nuclear power station was closed down before it began operations and in May 1990 the entire station was temporarily closed on safety grounds . |
| 23 | But he felt , in a way that must seem absurd when the conflict in the Falklands is dramatised repeatedly before it is even over , when the widow of an assassinated president is recreated in large in her lifetime on the epic screen , that these events were too close to be seen clearly , too large and foul and complex to be treated with decorum . |
| 24 | Also the wood formed a very strange texture , it is very rough in patches and there are lots of tiny holes in the wood where worms had tunnelled there before it was broken off . |
| 25 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 26 | I was so convinced of my calling so before it got that far I had to step hack from the relationship . " |
| 27 | So you can test it more thoroughly but in that case , A you put the costs up and B it takes longer before it gets actually , before patients get the benefits of it . |
| 28 | Noting the slow take up of the high-end RIO , Specialix says RIO was ‘ over engineered ’ and brought to the market before its time , saying it will have to wait until multi-processing technology takes off before it sees any real installations . |
| 29 | THE CLASS of a locomotive can often be detected well before it appears on the scene simply by the sound of its whistle . |
| 30 | She got off the ground so quickly with her public relations it was squashed almost before it came to life . " |