Example sentences of "just before it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before it left Qena three policemen boarded . |
| 2 | His statement hung like an arrow in the air , just before it turns and begins its fatal descent . |
| 3 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 4 | However , just before it died , there was what looked like a length of white cotton thread hanging from the anal vent . |
| 5 | A silver cup whizzed an inch wide of her father 's ear ; her eldest brother caught it just before it sailed out of an arrow-slit window . |
| 6 | Then he looked up at the sky , and saw the plane just before it went behind a cloud on its way to Port au Prince airport . |
| 7 | Former employees at an engineering firm have been told their company borrowed ( 200,000 ) two hundred thousand pounds from their pension scheme just before it went bust . |
| 8 | Fair amount of arguing , I do n't know if that 's part of the ploy with the free kick , just before it came over I think you were getting frustrated that the free kick was n't coming over quick enough , a lot of arms being raised , is that a ploy or was it actually real frustration ? |
| 9 | Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’ |
| 10 | Champagne ages perfectly in the producers ' cellars with a cheap crown cork , and only sprouts its traditional mushroom just before it goes on sale . |
| 11 | According to the crew of a USAF storm-tracking WC-130 Hercules which penetrated the eye of the hurricane just before it struck Homestead , peak wind speed was 170 knots and pressure dropped to 993 millibars . |
| 12 | Just before it began to get light , Liza Carrow , carrying a torch and with an old coat thrown over her nightdress , crept out of Four Winds and walked towards the cliff . |
| 13 | Note that all assignments in IF/ALT programs are final ( i.e. occur at the end of a program 's run , just before it terminates ) and made only to free variables . |
| 14 | Turn left off the road just before it reaches the next beck . |
| 15 | I grabbed at my towel just before it slipped . |
| 16 | Just before it begins to run remove the dish and carry it to the table . |
| 17 | I remember when my school opened , or just before it did , erm I got the staff together for a conference for a day , and got another East Sussex Head , James Quinn , who came along and talked to them , and one of the things he said was now for the next week or two , whatever John Werner says goes . |
| 18 | Lotus is believed to have devoted $30m over four years developing a database that it cancelled in 1989 — just before it bought a 15% stake in Sybase Inc , sold again in 1992 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The exhaust gas is mixed with a little air from a small pump at a point just before it enters the canister . |
| 21 | In fact , a submissive cat in the house that has ‘ had enough ’ and is about to defend itself will often dilate its pupils rapidly just before it lashes out at you . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed . |
| 24 | In September the Council formulated the general directive quoted in the previous chapter ( see p. 207 ) and the next year , just before it broke up , two new members actually advocated the suppression of polyphonic church music altogether . |
| 25 | I toyed with the idea of walking the station to meet him , but , having a sore throat and an impending cold , had gone out to get cough sweets from the ‘ Paki shop ’ just before it closes at 10pm and , coming up the street , the heavens opened and a mass of snow began to fall , so I came in and stayed in , so that 's freshly home made onion soup was ready as he came up the stairs . |