Example sentences of "it before it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fulmars from ‘ Formidable ’ were also flying patrols and on one such sortie Lt. R. MacDonald-Hall , with L/A Harry Phillips in rear seat , sighted a He111 but were unable to catch it before it disappeared into the fog . |
| 2 | Birds leave their roosts and take to the skies ; monkeys jump away through the branches to find breakfast , and antelope disperse once more over the open plains to graze , knowing that if danger comes they stand a good chance of seeing it before it gets lethally close . |
| 3 | Or if we tell them about anything dangerous so they can get it before it gets their precious settlements . |
| 4 | The thought is about how I must find someone to mend it before it gets any worse . |
| 5 | Do n't any of the existing Sergeants want to take it before it gets advertised outwards I mean I do n't but |
| 6 | If a punch is aimed at the face , the defender steps out to intercept it before it gains momentum . |
| 7 | Katya went crazy over it before it had broken into leaf , just as she did with catmint . |
| 8 | When I were a lad , a volley meant you hit it before it had touched the ground . |
| 9 | Erm I wonder how substantially it 's going to re-written , first , in order to make it a response rather than an issue raising paper and ah , secondly , in the light of what we 've all had to say this evening and , if it is to be re-written I wonder erm who is going to actually see it and approve it before it goes off in time to get to the health authority by the day after tomorrow ? |
| 10 | So you 're filtering it before it goes in the machine and still we 're saying , why do n't we filter it as it comes out the machine , before it goes back in the tank . |
| 11 | I think we might even wash it before it goes in the David 's mug is quiet compared to Oh have you bitten your mouth again ? |
| 12 | Yeah , well , I I I might , it might not be definite , but I think they want to go and see it before it goes on , and it 's only a fiver , and I 'd really like to see it . |
| 13 | ‘ I was in the middle of painting a tile and I 'd like to finish it before it dries . |
| 14 | Catch it before it falls in the water |
| 15 | And were a scream to rise in her , would she manage to suppress it before it shot from her mouth ? |
| 16 | You 'd do something more likely to reap a financial return , such as throw it off the top of Blackpool Tower in a Force Nine gale and run down the 763 steps to see if you could catch any of it before it blew away . |
| 17 | Usually , on reconnaissance escort , the Germans drove the camera plane home within ten minutes , and often they got it before it recrossed the Line . |
| 18 | I wish I could have stopped it before it got out of hand . |
| 19 | Seddon knew more about the Ingard-Stavanger case than I did , because , being an ex-chief of the Fraud Squad , he 'd been consulted about it before it came to us , and had , in fact , directed the preliminary police inquiries . |
| 20 | I thought I 'd better rescue it before it went out with the rubbish . ’ |
| 21 | Luckily we killed it before it became a full-blown institution and today no one seriously expects that food , or clothing , or even that overriding necessity , a television set , should be subsidised for all consumers , still less for a minority . |
| 22 | What sort of building was it before it became a museum ? |
| 23 | ‘ Usually , ’ he went on , ‘ when there 's to be a police raid of any sort we know about it before it happens . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've got to find it before it takes off again ! ’ |
| 25 | I said to the NFU and in my press statement that I reserved the right to take emergency action if , for instance , people in this country started to use coloured lenses for chickens , which would be outrageous — I would stop it before it started . |
| 26 | Remove it before it starts to break up , though . |
| 27 | The telephone trilled politely , and she ran to get it before it disturbed Rosie . |
| 28 | We 've had no other reported sighting of it before it entered the Broad . |
| 29 | If a negative thought is about to enter your mind try to become aware of it before it has had time to take root in your unconscious and put it aside , replacing it with a positive thought . |
| 30 | The practitioner utilizing this block steps up to meet the kick as it is coming in , thus meeting it before it has gained full momentum and power . |