Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] before it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carried to their logical conclusion his theories meant that ( if he were right ) the attaque à outrance could be broken by a well-organised defence long before it reached the enemy . |
| 2 | The numbing effect of complete spatial disorientation blurred his mind momentarily before it struggled to compensate . |
| 3 | And it ripped about a quarter of the roof off before it finished and the slates but er still good . |
| 4 | That is what 's ahead of us and we 've got to warn people that that is ahead and try and take action now before it gets out of control . |
| 5 | Buzz was out of the car almost before it rolled to a halt on the gravel forecourt . |
| 6 | Champagne ages perfectly in the producers ' cellars with a cheap crown cork , and only sprouts its traditional mushroom just before it goes on sale . |
| 7 | According to the crew of a USAF storm-tracking WC-130 Hercules which penetrated the eye of the hurricane just before it struck Homestead , peak wind speed was 170 knots and pressure dropped to 993 millibars . |
| 8 | The Beeb can reasonably ask the government to recognise these latent contradictions , and to get its ideological act together before it unveils ( in a paper scheduled for the summer ) its own proposals for the corporation 's future . |
| 9 | This experimental law has caused the biggest outcry even before it has been played . |
| 10 | The exhaust gas is mixed with a little air from a small pump at a point just before it enters the canister . |
| 11 | I grabbed at my towel just before it slipped . |
| 12 | When I read in my newspaper that Spurn Head could well tumble into the sea at any moment , given a sufficiently powerful gale , I felt I must visit the place quickly before it did so , before great waves breached its narrowness and destroyed it — yet again . |
| 13 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 14 | picked his stuff up before it finished |
| 15 | Put your drink up before it spills somewhere |
| 16 | He stood off from the left-hand window and kicked the big bottom pane , pulling his foot back before it interrupted the fall of glass , then kicked again to clear the residue . |
| 17 | In practice the rockpooler should ensure his arrival about four hours after high spring water , to give him approximately two hours twelve and one half minutes to follow the ebbing tide out before it turns . |
| 18 | He had wondered how the KGB would react to the Reznichenko Memorandum ; now he saw they must have been analysing the pattern long before it had occurred to him . |
| 19 | In this way he can ‘ smell ’ trouble long before it gets serious . |
| 20 | However , because of the steps involved in bringing Verity Lambert over from ABC , Doctor Who gained its father long before it found its mother . |
| 21 | I 've got first hand experience of this , since the unit Epson provided for review had obviously been in use elsewhere before it got to me , and there was toner flying free from the part-used cartridge . |
| 22 | The criterion for capitalists to scrap old equipment is not whether the machine is physically serviceable — most machinery is withdrawn from use well before it has worn out — but whether it can any longer be operated profitably And the key factor which renders unprofitable the operation of older vintages of machinery is a rise in wage costs . |
| 23 | G&G spent a good part of a decade — the Seventies — getting drunk , the memory of which still prompts a wistful smile from Gilbert , and they were habitués of the Blitz even before it became the early-Eighties club . |
| 24 | The Dakar fiasco came close to ending de Gaulle 's political career almost before it had begun . |
| 25 | We pioneered the technique well before it became used on so large a scale by giants like American Express and Reader 's Digest . |
| 26 | But the term ‘ canon ’ was being used for the standard of authentic teaching given by the baptismal confession of faith well before it came to be used for the list of accepted books . |
| 27 | That was the priority now ; to set the vision down before it slipped away ! |
| 28 | Turn left off the road just before it reaches the next beck . |
| 29 | The region where women ca n't vote in the local elections , and seats on the council depend on how a show of hands looks to the official in charge , is also the region where men were wearing a ring in the right ear long before it became a youth fashion elsewhere . |
| 30 | The other alternatives were to shoot the plane down before it landed or blow it up on the ground at Teheran airport when all the Imam 's followers had come forward to welcome him . |