Example sentences of "just before " in BNC.
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| 31 | Trade negotiations always look as if they were about to break down just before they succeed . |
| 32 | He had already agreed that the ‘ two-plus-four ’ talks between the Germanies and the victorious powers of 1945 — the United States , the Soviet Union , Britain and France — should start just before the East Germans voted : thereby underlining that foreigners have as much interest as Germans in the issue of unification . |
| 33 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 34 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 35 | Just before we were to go upstairs to be photographed , an agitated Nigel Lawson came up to me saying that he wanted a word . |
| 36 | Jane caught the little town just before it was ‘ improved ’ and standardised . |
| 37 | But he made it , and got to the station just before the train did . |
| 38 | The pilot slammed the powerful jets into reverse thrust , bringing the giant plane to a halt just before he ran out of runway . |
| 39 | She usually assumed that look just before he succeeded in reducing her to tears . |
| 40 | Dot remembered one of the things she 'd overheard Mrs Hollidaye telling Gloria just before Loopy Lil crashed the tray . |
| 41 | wrote in my apartment at the Hotel España in Salamanca , just before I |
| 42 | When he eventually embarked to be rowed out to the ship , ‘ it blew up just before he reached her , it appears that , if he had left the shore a few minutes sooner , he must have perished with the rest on board ’ |
| 43 | The Church was overcrowded and , just before he entered it , the gallery collapsed , killing thirty-five members of the congregation . |
| 44 | The trailing lead got snarled up in a bramble bush but , just before Gazzer reached him , the dog yanked it free and raced away through the dunes , to the thin strip of beach left uncovered by the tide . |
| 45 | ‘ … and you see , when Hitler became bosoms with Stalin just before this stupid war started — I still think it 's a stupid war — it dawned on me that he 'd made a nonsense of my belief in him . ’ |
| 46 | With an astringent readability and clarity rare among economists , Galbraith 's book had a tremendous reception , partly , he believes , because of the Soviet Sputnik which went up into space just before it was published . |
| 47 | She played it opposite Clark Gable just before he died . |
| 48 | You may find that you need to apply the solution several times and should obviously avoid doing the gob just before a rain storm is forecast . |
| 49 | Even worse than this is if you have a binge on foods you feel are bad for you just before your new regime is due to start . |
| 50 | just before we show you how to do this , check some final details . |
| 51 | Probably the clue to the most plausible explanation — and the one put forward by the man most likely to know , his jockey Dick Francis — lies in the fact that just before he slid to the ground Devon Loch pricked his ears , in the way that a horse might do just before jumping a fence — or on suddenly hearing an unfamiliar noise . |
| 52 | Not surprisingly this can lead to a great deal of guilt and remorse at the thought of things left unsaid , or perhaps an argument that had taken place just before the person left the house , never to return . |
| 53 | People will wonder if it is their fault that the person who died in the road traffic accident perhaps was not looking where they were going because of being preoccupied with what was happening just before they left home . |
| 54 | Just before I 'm due to come back home , before term starts at university , Nicola 's parents come to visit . |
| 55 | Miraculously cured of back pains just before he had joined the NSC , he had joined a charismatic Episcopal congregation , in which he kept the church manners of a Catholic ; and where appeals for the contras were concerned he could take either voice , as necessary . |
| 56 | Thus the words supposedly uttered by a despairing king , just before he turned his face to the wall to die , are an immediate symbol of the reaction of very many of those on whom Mary Queen of Scots was to make an impact , in her lifetime and thereafter . |
| 57 | In June 1561 , just before the personal rule began , Elizabeth 's ambassador Nicholas Throckmorton warned her that ‘ your realm is in no other case at this day , than all other realms of Christendom are ’ , by which he meant torn by religious controversy and conflict ; in the twentieth century , J. H. Elliott was to characterize this period as the decade of revolution , when Scotland was only one of eight countries including France , Spain , the Netherlands and England which experienced upheaval and revolt . |
| 58 | You can give it to her this evening , just before you set out . |
| 59 | Just before the court was due to hear the request her solicitor received a cheque for £2,400 . |
| 60 | Just before the campaign started , six Parliamentry candidates received voice coaching from Miss Davies . |