Example sentences of "before it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in Britain ( and Sweden ) , the state controlled the Church , feudalism had ended well before it generally disappeared elsewhere in Europe , and manhood suffrage had been extended to large sections of the population — unlike most continental countries where it was attained only at a later date , sometimes not until the early part of the present century . |
| 2 | We had notice of Sarah 's barrenness even before it properly got under way ( 11.30 ) . |
| 3 | Khorramshahr , grimly dubbed Khuninshahr ( city of blood ) by some Iranians , was the subject of a good deal of contradictory reporting before it eventually fell late in October . |
| 4 | For The Silmarillion at least , though not published till 1977 , four years after its author 's death , was in existence as a ‘ narrative structure ’ not long after the First World War , while a version of it was submitted to George Allen & Unwin for publication forty years before it eventually came out . |
| 5 | That said , they were presented with some fairly easy targets , not least from the incredibly untidy lineout ball that the Welsh jumpers were offering poor Robert Jones before it eventually dried up altogether . |
| 6 | In the end I had to take it to a skid pan to see how far it would go before it eventually lost its cool The answer was as far as its steering lock would allow . |
| 7 | It was touch-and-go whether she could reach the pram before it either overturned or leapt from the rocky wall at the foot of the bank on to the road , along which traffic was speeding in both directions . |
| 8 | This was effectively the same as the Spanish Pyrenean of northern Navarre and had already been crossed to a large extent with Limousin and Garonnais before it finally disappeared into the Blonde during the 1960s , leaving only the rare Béarnais as a purebred remnant . |
| 9 | Then , for a while the character was named Tanni , before it finally got changed , on Spooner 's rewrite , to Vicki . |
| 10 | The government promised a White Paper on student finance , but the very long delay before it finally appeared in November 1988 suggests that there were problems in devising a suitable alternative to grants . |
| 11 | The staff admit that a sudden rise in entrances to the zoo was likely to be largely due to an interest by the public who wanted to visit it before it finally closed and they agree that problems remain for the future . |
| 12 | The project was sold twice more before it finally flew again as a modified two-seater , as N9837A . |
| 13 | He criticized in particular what he saw as the fundamental flaw in a system based on the pursuit of points : that a team was given a point before it even kicked a ball . |
| 14 | It has been abandoned by its parents before it even hatched . |
| 15 | Several of the remaining stories needed the grafting of an extra episode — a move ultimately contributory towards the whole shift in emphasis Doctor Who underwent before it even reached the TV screens . |
| 16 | The fuel situation in western Romania was desperate because a lot was being smuggled into Yugoslavia before it even got to the petrol stations . |
| 17 | The event demanded the most stringent virtues before it even began : patience , perseverance , reverence . |
| 18 | The show came under attack before it even opened because one critic said it contained erotic love scenes , a roller skating comic and a simulated sex act . |
| 19 | There the company had undertaken to lay some thousands of miles of pipe line across the permafrost , spreading before it specially constructed polystyrene boards to guard against the disastrous consequences of direct contact with the ice . |
| 20 | Another decade was to pass before it really sank in , and he could write , ‘ What an ass I have been both for not knowing and for thinking I knew . |
| 21 | Three days had passed before it suddenly struck Lisa that she had so far been spared her most dreaded aggravation — the aggravation of Alexander Vass constantly breathing down her neck . |
| 22 | Hurricane Iniki headed 100 miles north for the main Hawaiian resort of Oahu — where it killed a 15-year-old boy — before it suddenly switched course for Kauai . |
| 23 | The eagerness of the plea as opposed to the hasty promise before it quite took Charles aback . |
| 24 | ( It took another four years before it limply reached the screen with Richard Benjamin . ) |
| 25 | DAVID Jason 's latest TV role as hard-nosed sleuth Jack Frost was a guaranteed hit long before it ever reached the small screen . |
| 26 | If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million , the universe would have recollapsed before it ever reached its present size . |
| 27 | In all then , Telecom would probably have outlaid £14m — allowing for very modest fees on the purchase — before it actually laid one brick , and that is if it got planning permission . |
| 28 | You had to satisfy the Traffic Commissioners , that what you are proposing would , would answer the cause , would n't give rise to erm great hardships to the travelling public and erm oh you 're preparing a fare increase about a year before it actually came up to , in front of the Commissioners and then he would erm , perhaps make some alterations or give you a date when you could apply . |
| 29 | His early involvement in this so-called jazz-poetry — which achieved such popularity in the sixties — shows that Leonard , not for the first time , and certainly not the last , was ‘ where it was all happening ’ before it actually happened . |
| 30 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |