Example sentences of "just [subord] [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Just before they reached the station she said , ‘ Was it the birds ? ’ |
| 32 | For a moment , just before they left the house , as she and her aunt clung tightly to each other , the silent tears coursing down their faces , Ruth hated America and wished that it had never been discovered . |
| 33 | Corton Beach were tipped in the national newspapers just before they left the OTC to start on the London Stock Exchange 's third market . |
| 34 | Just before they reach the flowering stage — earlier if you need the land for another crop — chop them down , allow them to wilt for a few hours then plough or dig them in . |
| 35 | Just before they reach the exit , HAMLET , apparently seeing CLAUDIUS approaching from off stage , bends low in a sweeping bow . |
| 36 | Hello ! has won a reputation as heralding disaster by featuring families apparently in bliss just before they hit the rocks . |
| 37 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 38 | ‘ In the Same Boat ’ has Kipling 's Conroy exclaim just before he meets the hysterical , drug-taking woman , Miss Henschil , |
| 39 | ‘ Alex Household must have said it just before he shot the gun ; Micky heard it over the deaf-aid and just repeated it . ’ |
| 40 | Just before he reached the ramp , I could hear the engine hesitate ; he throttled down . |
| 41 | The news reached Napoleon III just before he left the Tuileries to distribute the prizes to the successful exhibitors , and observers noticed , without at that stage knowing the reason , that during the ceremony he seemed even more abstracted than usual . |
| 42 | Now , just before he left the country for what would be the last time . |
| 43 | Just before he entered the city , he was transferred to a ‘ miserable and worn out animal , covered with filth ’ . |
| 44 | If we do we 'll be like the man in the cartoon who fell off the Empire State Building and shouted just before he hit the ground ‘ I 'm doing great so far ’ . |
| 45 | ‘ They 'd got a tail off a fox fur and pinned it on the back of Victor 's coat just before he started the dance . |
| 46 | As I said to my husband only last night ( just after I had eaten my miserable Lean Cuisine but just before I finished the box of Black Magic ) : ‘ Is n't it terrible the way we allow advertisers to manipulate us ? ’ |
| 47 | But er when just before I left the polishing which was in nineteen thirty eight , er they were bringing in a lot of cellu it 's all th a lot of all this modern stuff is what they call cellulose , but I could n't tell you how it 's done , it 's done with a spray . |
| 48 | Billy came back just before I sold the house in Dwyer Street and saw her when she was a baby . |
| 49 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 50 | Turn left off the road just before it reaches the next beck . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | The exhaust gas is mixed with a little air from a small pump at a point just before it enters the canister . |
| 53 | Just before it joins the urethra , the vas sprouts a small sac , the seminal vesicle , once thought to be a store for spermatozoa but now believed to be simply another gland which adds its secretion to the ejaculate . |
| 54 | Just before you close the meeting hold on |
| 55 | It the player then took a breath at the end of bar fifteen just before you start the ceder bit . |
| 56 | Just as they reached the top and comparative safety , Lilley yelled for everyone to bale out . |
| 57 | Indraugnir 's strength failed just as they reached the Blighted Isle . |
| 58 | Cocooned in an ivory tower of antique furniture and unfinished jigsaw puzzles , she spends an inordinate amount of time doing simple things like pouring hot water into a teapot ; then she gets on the telephone to her friends and either hangs up just as they reach the receiver or asks them if they would n't mind coming round to tea and picking up some skate from the fishmonger on the way . |
| 59 | Joe steals two bus tickets to Miami , but Ratso dies just as they reach the place of his dreams . |
| 60 | Is there any evidence that bats have " discovered " it too , just as they did the send/receive system ? |