Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] just before " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're reduced to five thousand with short commons and sickness , and the extra irony is that a cargo ship diverted from Chios got in just before the port closed . |
| 2 | The message came through just before you arrived back with the shopping . |
| 3 | So , er Nicola was born and er the court either came up just before your dad had the after Nicola was born , when she was a month old . |
| 4 | Billy came back just before I sold the house in Dwyer Street and saw her when she was a baby . |
| 5 | I came out just before the baby was born . |
| 6 | That one you 've got there — Cotton Town — that came out just before I got called up . |
| 7 | And yet … the thought crept back just before she drifted off to sleep … it had been rather nice that he had actually noticed her in the past , and noticed her to such an extent that he was now in a position to compare the woman she 'd become to the girl she 'd once been . |
| 8 | brown flour and , and , anyway they called round just before we set off . |
| 9 | 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 ’ |
| 10 | They lived there just before I was born . |
| 11 | I invited Reinhard to join me in some parallel experiments in chicks ; to our delight , 2-Dgal , injected either just before or up to a couple of hours after training , blocked fucose incorporation into the chick brain glycoproteins and produced amnesia in animals tested twenty-four hours later . |