Example sentences of "the [noun sg] just before " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dexter had snatched them from the canteen just before he and Blanche had set off . |
| 3 | Twice he was called to the telephone just before the curtain went up and he had long intense conversations with his hand over the mouthpiece . |
| 4 | I was out on the gallery just before I went to bed , looking at all the tapestries and statuettes . |
| 5 | But equally important was the moment just before Fischer had knocked then thrown the doors wide ; a moment when Wang 's voice had boomed out clearly . |
| 6 | He remembered falling , and the deck coming up to hit him , which brought back the sensation — although it had n't done so at the time — of the moment just before the torpedo hit Lanark . |
| 7 | She leaves all kinds of gifts beneath the Christmas tree and manages to leave the room just before the children burst in to discover their presents . |
| 8 | Called to identify the body just before I went off duty . |
| 9 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 10 | After being given clearance to land , Miranda , following her instructor 's directions , started her approach ; she throttled back to reduce speed and control her descent as she flew towards the threshold — the point just before she intended to touch down . |
| 11 | In the period just before or just after their independence many countries embarked , quite naturally , on primary school syllabus changes . |
| 12 | But he made it , and got to the station just before the train did . |
| 13 | Press the nozzle just before you aim it at the surface , and release it at the end of each stroke . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Those using the motorway just before the accident said traffic had been heavy , with holidaymakers adding to the normal load . |
| 16 | The gates seem to be clipped to the lane marker buoy wires in some way and to be operated by compressed air as bubbles rise to the surface just before the gates appear . |
| 17 | Turn left off the road just before it reaches the next beck . |
| 18 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 19 | Father Poole had sent a large parcel containing clothes and shoes to the hospital just before he was released . |
| 20 | Try placing a vanilla pod or coffee bean under the grill just before the viewers arrive . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Another neighbour told the inquest he 'd seen a car with two occupants drive away from the farm just before the barn caught fire . |
| 23 | It was all very reminiscent of Peter in the Garden just before the cock crowed . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm so glad that Uncle James did n't sell the family home , ’ Liz had said as they had walked around the garden just before she had left Devon to catch the plane back to New York . |
| 25 | This should look familiar to you because it will be the similar to the state of the screen just before you started QBasic . |
| 26 | ‘ The poison could have been added at the table just before Sir Thomas was poisoned , ’ ventured Heinrich hopefully . |
| 27 | You can get away with a lot of things at Oxford , but disappearing off the face of the earth just before term starts is not one of them . |
| 28 | This was achieved by presenting the noise of the fork just before food was given , and then after some repetition presenting the noise of the fork alone . |
| 29 | But there were fears that an old man seen near the spot just before the crash could have perished under the tanker . |