Example sentences of "[adv] before it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only time it wo n't fall over you is when it 's full of clothes , but the problem is opening the door and getting the clothes in before it falls on you . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll take you over there now , then , and you can get settled in before it gets dark . ’ |
| 3 | Well I 'll get that in before it gets dark . |
| 4 | What state it was in before it crystallized he does not explain ; certainly it was not glassy . |
| 5 | We ought to go in before it starts to get cold . ’ |
| 6 | Sue fell in love with the house long before it came on the market . |
| 7 | It is history now how he followed that perfectly shaped tee shot by greening a sumptuous 4-iron — only to lose out to Nick Faldo 's answering birdie as the Open champion holed a 15-footer on which the engines had cut out long before it dropped . |
| 8 | In other cases it is not true ; for example , a flight will be available in an airline booking system long before it takes place . |
| 9 | In this way he can ‘ smell ’ trouble long before it gets serious . |
| 10 | The Motorola 88110 RISC is not actually out yet , but the company 's Computer Group has had enough of third parties announcing new machines using its parent 's chips long before it gets a crack at them , and the company is first out of the gate with a single-board computer using the forthcoming 50MHz 88110 . |
| 11 | This was also the case around the turn of the century , when the emerging labour movement often used local political activity in particular strongholds such as East London and Sheffield to promote its aims and objectives long before it reached the national political stage . |
| 12 | The mini-skirt spread through the western world from many centres ; it appeared in Oxford Street , London , long before it reached Oxford Street , Swansea , and presumably it was seen in Chicago , Illinois , an appreciable time before it dazzled the male eyes of the " city " of Muddy in the south of the same state . |
| 13 | Carried to their logical conclusion his theories meant that ( if he were right ) the attaque à outrance could be broken by a well-organised defence long before it reached the enemy . |
| 14 | It was a pity that it would be blown to atoms long before it got there . |
| 15 | He had wondered how the KGB would react to the Reznichenko Memorandum ; now he saw they must have been analysing the pattern long before it had occurred to him . |
| 16 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 17 | A GRITTY , realistic approach to Vietnam with Burt Lancaster as the commanding officer becoming cynical about the war in 1964 , long before it became a media affair . |
| 18 | It is believed that long before it became a market town , serving a largely agricultural community , it was the ancient Roman port of Vannona , which was supposed to have been the principal harbour on this coast . |
| 19 | I performed cunnilingus , sodomy , intercrural sex and even safe sex — long before it became fashionable . |
| 20 | The region where women ca n't vote in the local elections , and seats on the council depend on how a show of hands looks to the official in charge , is also the region where men were wearing a ring in the right ear long before it became a youth fashion elsewhere . |
| 21 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 22 | There had been rumours , warnings about Alexander 's death long before it happened . |
| 23 | These simulations allow weaknesses in an inspection system to be identified and rectified long before it enters practice . |
| 24 | It would therefore not be too long before it settled down to a stationary state . |
| 25 | ‘ And how long before it clears up ? |
| 26 | All was well algae-wise apart from a smear of brown algae on the glass , some beard algae on the bogwood and on some of the slow-growing plants and what I now know to be the tell-tale sign of a thin greasy film on the water surface , which is present long before it thickens up into slime algae . |
| 27 | It won' be long before it finishes it 's only |
| 28 | It would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage . ’ |
| 29 | However , because of the steps involved in bringing Verity Lambert over from ABC , Doctor Who gained its father long before it found its mother . |
| 30 | The ball should have been cleared long before it found its way onto Robert Lee 's left boot . |