Example sentences of "[vb past] just before the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brook flows under the shops opposite , built just before the First World War . |
| 2 | It was an old concrete pillbox built just before the last war to house a gun covering the firth , and it stuck in the sand like a big grey tooth . |
| 3 | Only after the event was over did we discover that he had in fact contributed to a booklet produced just before the 1987 general election by the Society of Conservative Lawyers . |
| 4 | The fair gradually declined during the 1930 's and ceased just before the Second World War ; but it has continued to be proclaimed each St Swithin 's Day , except when this falls on a Sunday and then the custom usually takes place on the following day . |
| 5 | I 'd passed the first some way back , the second I knew came just before the horizontal passage . |
| 6 | The trouble flared just before the final whistle when Maradona tried to stop a Cadiz defender intervening in a dispute over a foul . |
| 7 | Then you got to er the picture house er that happened just before the First World War that was put up as far as I can remember , I know I used to go there and see erm the Broken Coin which was a serial picture and it was you know er where somebody was up to their neck in water one week and it would say that the continuation of this picture would be shown in this theatre one week from today and you . |
| 8 | The famous ‘ Golly ’ originated just before the first world war from an American design . |
| 9 | ‘ No , he died just before the six came up . |
| 10 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |
| 11 | John Betjeman , the former Poet Laureate , wrote just before the Second World War ( 'Slough' in Skelton , 1964 , p. 74 ) : |
| 12 | A grim Panorama programme on BBC television on May 17th highlighted the problems of Britain 's increasingly insecure workforce : milkmen working longer hours for the same money , CD stackers sacked just before the two years after which their jobs would be legally protected , betting-shop workers thrown out if they refuse to work evenings . |