Example sentences of "and just before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bedford 's Howe was an early probationer and just before Hackett was sent down , Beckett , his prop , was admonished for riotous behaviour . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher has the great virtue of candour , and just before she became Prime Minister she announced in a newspaper interview how she was going to run her Cabinet and she said it must be a ‘ conviction–government . |
| 3 | All the guests have to be wired up with a radio mike , and just before she went on , she said : ‘ I 've got this thing strapped between my legs — I hope it does n't give way … . ’ |
| 4 | Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’ |
| 5 | With setts that I watch regularly , I usually talk to myself in a low , quiet voice as I arrive and just before I leave . |
| 6 | They put pressure on their own elected councillors all over Glasgow to support our housing project and just before our deadline was reached , GDC coughed up all the remaining monies . |
| 7 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 8 | I see the sign saying Welcome to Inverness just as I remember where I left the car and where I left from this morning and just before I turn and stamp to the nearest desk and demand in my highest dudgeon to be taken to Edinburgh on a charted Lear if necessary or limoed immediately to the highest-starred hotel within a reasonable radius for a free overnight dinner , bed and breakfast and unlimited bar tab . |
| 9 | And just before it 's too dark and they have to be shut up . |
| 10 | And just before he went , he said : ‘ Funny , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Later , both sloppy drunk , he climbed on and gave it to her and just before he came she put a finger up his asshole and it was the strangest sensation he 's ever had . |
| 12 | Anyway , let us arrange it like this : we 'll keep it quiet until the beginning of the year , and then , if you have n't changed your mind ’ — he leant his head towards her , a soft smile on his face — ‘ I will ask your mother if we can become engaged , and just before you 're seventeen or just after , we 'll be married . ’ |
| 13 | Now on the angle that you did there the degrees can you add those up and just before you start drawing it you should always add them up and make sure they all come to three sixty cos if it comes to four hundred it 's going to go right round and a bit further than once round . |