Example sentences of "the [noun sg] before it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years many leading members of the BDA were involved in the running of the Board before it wound up following the emergence of Social Services Departments , which took over responsibility for the welfare of the deaf . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Polly rubbed the back of her neck , hoping to soothe away the tightness before it became a headache . |
| 4 | Now the beer is ready for the final stage in the brewery before it leaves for the pub cellar . |
| 5 | These were that the House would be inundated with appeals relating to the interpretation of statutes and that the House would not have the benefit of the careful consideration of the case before it went up to the House ( Drewry , 1973 ) . |
| 6 | He grabbed the end of the case before it hit him and stepped backwards using my momentum to take me forward and off balance , then he shoved back . |
| 7 | Ideally , of course , one hopes to get the case before it has reached this stage . |
| 8 | If left for more than about 20 minutes after a run , it takes several turns of the starter before it fires . |
| 9 | The Editor has commented in previous editions of ‘ NG ’ that graduates of the former University College , Nottingham ( the University before it received its charter in 1948 ) and people who hold external Nottingham degrees are regarded as members of Convocation just as are those who have obtained their degrees after study on the Nottingham campus . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So , I am not about to preach , but I feel that you would welcome a glimpse of the future before it arrives . |
| 12 | He caught the tea before it toppled , and sat and held her while she howled her eyes out . |
| 13 | Cleaning your house while the kids are still growing is like shovelling the snow before it stops snowing . |
| 14 | The farther it goes from the entrance before it dances , the farther away is the flower that it has discovered . |
| 15 | He caught the peel before it hit the floor and threw it out of the window . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've sent for a breakdown lorry-from a garage , so we may be able to salvage the car before it goes right under . ’ |
| 17 | The younger boys did not take at all kindly to Hilary lounging in a superior way in front of the set and drawling out the dialogue before it got spoken . |
| 18 | But Summers suggests , ambitiously , that there was solid evidence which , he claims , was what stopped Hoover tackling the Mob before it came to awesome power in America . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But surely Michael Banks 's death must end the run before it had even started ; Apparently not , according to the show 's producer , Paul Lexington . ’ |
| 21 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Consequently , as stories reached the capital of excessive clampdowns and criticisms , the leadership were unnerved and had to halt the campaign before it got out of hand . |
| 24 | To protect each line , fuses of relevant capacity are incorporated in the positive line of the circuit before it leaves the consumer unit . |
| 25 | And ‘ the moor ’ is the description of the scene before it had been claimed for cultivation . |
| 26 | Suffice it to say that , after referring to the ‘ extraordinary , and perhaps unique , jurisdiction of the Visitors to the Inns of Court , ’ he found that the judges possessed a residual jurisdiction by which , in an exceptional case , they might remit a matter to an Inn and direct it to reconsider , with the Inns ' Council and the Bar Council , what ought to be the criteria by which they should judge the question before it determined the application afresh . |
| 27 | It was on the tip of her tongue then to ask if he had managed to dispatch the papers to whoever they were destined for , but she held back the question before it got uttered . |
| 28 | Now she knew the potency of his sexual technique , she could switch into an appropriate iceberg act , freeze the moment before it had the chance to escalate into another near-escape like the one by the Blue Grotto … |
| 29 | The designer at Olympia chose to represent the race by the moment before it started , as Polygnotos showed the sack of Troy in its aftermath . |
| 30 | 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 . |