Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] before it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bagnall 's story of godnose had evidently been rather badly mutilated before it reached him . |
| 2 | You could always smear sticky treacle on the bit or make sure the bit is always warm before it goes into her mouth . |
| 3 | But a great deal of new building was also needed to accommodate the influx from the country — Ancoats itself was developed in the nineteenth century — and this could be equally substandard before it was well up . |
| 4 | In the process , job evaluation could terminally undermine clinical grading , making a new system virtually redundant before it has even got off the ground . |
| 5 | The trap has to be quite acid before it can close . |
| 6 | The most visible and vocal theorists have high energy and intelligence ; they also seem to find imaginative writing rather boring before it is processed into theory . |
| 7 | Most dogs will become sleepy and relaxed while the injection is being made and will be completely unconscious before it is completed . |