Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] before it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The force-push of expanding gas on the piston is multiplied by the leverage effect of the conrod , then again by the leverage-increasing effect of gear pairs before it reaches the driving wheels . |
| 2 | On hearing George Marsh shout , then scream , those in the box looked out and saw momentarily the terrifying apparition seconds before it disappeared . |
| 3 | Central principal John Dornan said details of the report were known to school management months before it became public — and a recent re-inspection is expected to show the school has made ‘ significant improvements ’ . |
| 4 | The man whose car collided with a coach moments before it crashed killing three people and injuring twenty-six others says he ca n't sleep for thinking about the accident . |
| 5 | Franco 's propagandists spared no efforts to demonstrate that the international community had at last recognized the rightness of his principles , or to extol what they called the enormous political skill of the man who had foreseen the Cold War years before it became reality . |
| 6 | The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) said Mr Rao was too busy fighting a factional war in his Congress Party to read intelligence reports about the attack days before it took place . |
| 7 | ‘ However , we would like to have ours up and running much sooner so that we can iron out the teething problems before it becomes law . ’ |
| 8 | If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable . |
| 9 | His findings include a confession from a man who shot at the UN plane minutes before it crashed . |
| 10 | The truck finally swerved off the road and jounced across pine roots before it stalled with a jerk in the middle of a little grove . |
| 11 | Some businessmen say they 're losing trade as a result because people are getting bored with Christmas weeks before it arrives . |
| 12 | The government , which had reportedly paid US$120,000,000 in debt interest arrears to the two multilateral agencies in the previous six months , had still to repay a further $540,000,000 in further interest payments before it became eligible for new loans . |