Example sentences of "just before " in BNC.

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1 I was the one around just before they all went to bed . ’
2 ‘ Not till just before they all left .
3 Dennis arrived just before the clock chimed the hour .
4 We talk , laugh , guffaw , sing in English and Spanish and suddenly , just before we dock I demand : ‘ And now , all of you , who do you prefer , Spencer or Constable ? ’
5 Just before the cylinder is a bead .
6 So when the cry is heard again just before the curtain falls it comes as a final appeal for help .
7 The footwork appears again and again in different enchaînements during their other appearances , notably in the short solo for Mercutio when he dances in a more tragic vein just before he dies .
8 Mr Stockdale authorised the £227,000 payment as part of a package just before he resigned .
9 Norwich & Peterborough Building Society is moving up 0.5 per cent to 14.5 per cent , but it put on 0.5 per cent just before the base rate rise was announced .
10 We had n't spoken to each other since Sid woke me up , just before the shelling started .
11 The Frenchman had produced a bottle of champagne and a couple of bottles of burgundy 1924 ; with the help of a my little black book of French/English , I understood that he had buried the champagne and the wine in his garden just before the Germans entered the village shortly after the collapse in 1940 .
12 Just before we packed up and got aboard the truck , I piped up and down the beach for a few moments .
13 I gave him a final wave just before we turned into the approach road leading to the village .
14 I suppose I can not complain , the wine was scrounged from the Officers quarters at Brigade H.Q just before we left that area .
15 On any day towards the end of the campaign , those who had been very interested in politics just before the campaign opened were one and a half times as likely to read a paper , and twice as likely to watch both BBC-TV and ITV news , as those with no interest in politics ( Chapter 3 ) .
16 In the galley , Harry had his first meal for six days , before being given some bread and butter and cigarettes and being advised to return in two days , just before the ship sailed .
17 just before he arrived at the school Victor Gollancz left its staff , ejected because he tried to rouse boys ' minds by heady and daring political argument .
18 The Church Union , organ of Anglo-Catholics , decided to hold a eucharistic congress at the Albert Hall just before the Lambeth Conference opened ; a demonstration of Anglo-Catholicism at a key point of Anglican history .
19 In fact , the straits raised this an extra 5 per cent just before the ‘ Brothers in Arms ’ tour in recognition of the agency service which I have always provided .
20 ‘ In the Same Boat ’ has Kipling 's Conroy exclaim just before he meets the hysterical , drug-taking woman , Miss Henschil ,
21 My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street .
22 We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut .
23 In the event , he was accepted at Birmingham University , but just before he arrived he was informed that the geography department had been closed down because of austerity measures brought in during World War N. He therefore decided to read geology instead , but shortly afterwards he received notification that this department was also to be closed .
24 A big van pulls up and they stick their stuff inside and get in , but just before they go , the man with the fog horn thing turns round and says all friendly like , ‘ Happy Christmas ’ .
25 Champagne ages perfectly in the producers ' cellars with a cheap crown cork , and only sprouts its traditional mushroom just before it goes on sale .
26 She had a haemorrhage just before she came in .
27 A home movie taken at a party just before the earthquake showed her dancing , a pretty young woman , a little overweight , a little overdressed .
28 He carries the burden of having been sworn in just before the US operations began , and he remains in hiding under the protection of the United States .
29 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 .
30 Francesca 's much publicized affair with Senator Michael O'Brien was the reason that she had been sent home rather early from a tour of duty in the Embassy in Washington , over a year previously , just before he had met her in London .
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