Example sentences of "the [noun] before it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman is treating me as though he were talking to someone from Louisiana and wanting to finish the sentence before it has been started . |
| 2 | Now the beer is ready for the final stage in the brewery before it leaves for the pub cellar . |
| 3 | Ideally , of course , one hopes to get the case before it has reached this stage . |
| 4 | If left for more than about 20 minutes after a run , it takes several turns of the starter before it fires . |
| 5 | Ashley was glaring at me over the candle flame the way a hawk must glare at a field mouse the instant before it parts mouse from field forever . |
| 6 | So , I am not about to preach , but I feel that you would welcome a glimpse of the future before it arrives . |
| 7 | Cleaning your house while the kids are still growing is like shovelling the snow before it stops snowing . |
| 8 | The farther it goes from the entrance before it dances , the farther away is the flower that it has discovered . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've sent for a breakdown lorry-from a garage , so we may be able to salvage the car before it goes right under . ’ |
| 10 | Lawyers acting for the Queen are set to try to block Living With The Queen before it goes on sale in the US next month . |
| 11 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 12 | The sight of a fearsome bully , intent on picking a fight , may fill us with such terror when our imagination starts working that we have lost the battle before it has even begun . |
| 13 | To protect each line , fuses of relevant capacity are incorporated in the positive line of the circuit before it leaves the consumer unit . |
| 14 | I do not what to be striking my hook away rim the fish before it has even reached its lips . |
| 15 | Somehow , the châteaux owners have been able to persuade us that it is in our interest to pay for the wine before it has been bottled and to finance its cellar maturation , which in the case of the better wines takes from ten to fifteen or even twenty years . |
| 16 | Undefended flowers can not be farmed in this manner , because another bird could come and drink from the flower during the interval before it has restored its nectar to the higher level . |
| 17 | It will create interest in the foreground which I think is important and often , especially looking across water an expanse of water if you have n't got any interesting detail in the foreground yo you have to go a long way into the picture before it begins to get interesting . |
| 18 | The player thrown to must try and catch the bomb before it explodes . |
| 19 | ‘ You can shoot the tiger before it tears the goat 's throat out , or you can do it afterwards . ’ |
| 20 | Although he acknowledges that the moisture content is high , he says the extra drying costs are offset by catching the crop before it sheds any ears . |
| 21 | Now the Government is to construct , at vast cost , two large new sewers to collect and process all the waste before it enters the river . |
| 22 | This hole is not directly over the fire , lest the rain should extinguish it ; and the smoke therefore naturally fills the place before it escapes . ’ |
| 23 | A long , narrow band of cloud has been moving down over the country and will continue to do so throughout the night before it moves away eastwards tomorrow , being replaced by clear skies to the west . |
| 24 | By bunging the end of the downpipe with the filter mat all the debris is filtered out of the water before it goes into the bucket or water butt , which saves time and energy trying to strain it out later . |
| 25 | Anglian Water Authority claims that the water drawn off from the lake is still safe despite these problems because of the treatment it gives the water before it reaches people 's taps . |
| 26 | Siporax is placed at the heart of gravel which pre-filters the water before it reaches the sintered glass . |
| 27 | Crystal clear 's matting and many of the foams can also be used to finally polish the water before it returns to the pond . |
| 28 | Pyramid says it is happy enough with the specifications for MIPS ' next-generation R5000 and R10000 but says it 'll wait until it sees the things before it believes the projections . |
| 29 | Competitors must have the last touch of the ball before it goes on it way . |
| 30 | It 's very important to reassure the person , to help make them feel their own worth and to deal with the incontinence before it becomes a habit . |