Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] before it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 2 | People were making a lot of money out of Dr Martens clothing before it existed . |
| 3 | If she had been feeling fitter and healthier , she certainly would have been better equipped to deal with the stresses , and to control her weight gain before it got out of hand . |
| 4 | If you think that you may have a problem dog , seek specialist help before it injures someone . |
| 5 | Lend me Melissa and the twins and we can still make the village shop before it shuts . ’ |
| 6 | Some rooting hormones have added fungicide , which reduces the risk of the cutting rotting before it roots . |
| 7 | But it WAS clearly written by someone with an intimate knowledge of the royal marriage crisis before it became public in Andrew Morton 's controversial book . |
| 8 | Naked children splashed gleefully in the shallow water , trying to catch the occasional sand crab before it scuttled underground . |
| 9 | In the social work field this was strikingly acknowledged by the Curtis Committee on the care of children , which recommended the setting up of a Central Training Council on Child Care before it published its final report recommending radical changes in the organization of the care of deprived children . |
| 10 | ‘ You need to eat maybe a third of your body weight before it kills you . |
| 11 | ROOT SYSTEM : - Roots may be long and slender , going down to great depth and absorbing water from distant sources ; or very shallow rooted and superficial , catching rain water before it evaporates away . |
| 12 | THE newly-found Aarseth-Brewington comet should brighten rapidly this month as it sweeps southwards through Ophiuchus in our morning sky , perhaps to become a naked eye object before it dips too far south to be seen from Britain . |
| 13 | THE newly-found Aarseth-Brewington comet should brighten rapidly this month as it sweeps southwards through Ophiuchus in our morning sky , perhaps to become a naked eye object before it dips too far south to be seen from Britain . |
| 14 | Miss Schuett has been hired to travel with Capriati throughout the summer , with a particular responsibility for helping the teenager shed some puppy fat before it becomes a lasting problem . |
| 15 | The U K is the wettest country in Europe and water companies should be forced to cut leakages from corrode corroded pipelines which allow up to twenty five percent loss from the water supply before it reaches the consumer . |
| 16 | It appears that water in the boat was decontaminated and pumped back into the lake , cracks were welded shut , and the whole was encased in a plastic shell before it began its journey . |
| 17 | You could say he was an insider trader before it became fashionable . |
| 18 | The control tower staff saw the aircraft making a sharp left-hand climbing turn before it disappeared into thick low cloud . |
| 19 | That way it may get out of the bat 's flight path before it enters the detection range . |
| 20 | Since most university students work from books to hand and find it impracticable to wait for inter-library loan requests — and you can not browse an inter-library loan book before it arrives , any more than you can browse the contents of books in the memory of an ‘ on-line ’ catalogue and not on a shelf in front of you — the result is a major diminution of standards . |
| 21 | Take this marmalade knife before it gets |
| 22 | There was plenty of competition too for the Shildon operation before it secured the paint contract . |
| 23 | But the rivers of south-west France flow very indirectly , and the Adour makes a strange horseshoe of a tour through lower Gas cony before it gets to the sea . |
| 24 | I forgot to say take out the bay leaf before it sets . |
| 25 | GUINNESS HAS PULLED OUT ALL THE technological stops in its latest marketing drive — and employees were among the first to see the imaginative Taste Sensation before it went out on the road . |
| 26 | Things were just a touch grim at the Shakespeare School before it occluded its portals for the vacation . |
| 27 | East Lindsey 's coastline extends northwards to just beyond Tetney lock , which is the last lock on the disused Louth Navigation Canal before it reaches the sea . |
| 28 | Witnesses saw the jet belch smoke before it exploded into pieces . |
| 29 | Costs will be kept to a minimum by making sure the job is proofed as the typesetting stage before it goes to press . |
| 30 | In the event , permission was given for Paisley and Beattie to go forward because they had been members of the Stormont Parliament before it had been suspended . |