Example sentences of "shortly before [pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Steinkühler , a member of Daimler-Benz 's supervisory board , made a killing by buying shares of Mercedes Holding shortly before they were exchanged for shares in Daimler-Benz . |
| 2 | [ For Bernard Tapie 's resignation from the Cabinet in May shortly before he was charged with fraud , see p. 38928 . |
| 3 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , by General Tolonen , shortly before I was dismissed from his service . |
| 5 | Although the provenance of the offence was the subject of some doubts , its existence was affirmed by the House of Lords in Button and Swain , and the offence was judicially extended in several ways shortly before it was abolished by the Act . |
| 6 | Rittner saw the work in the artist 's studio shortly before it was installed in the Tate Gallery 's Octagon Room last October , and suggested its title with Seville in mind . |
| 7 | In March 1991 the European Court obliged the Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo to repay some US$500,000,000 in state loans made during the mid-1980s shortly before it was sold to Fiat . |