Example sentences of "the [noun sg] before it has " 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 | Ideally , of course , one hopes to get the case before it has reached this stage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The wrong , or ‘ fattening ’ way , to drink with meals is to use the drink to swill food down the throat before it has been swallowed , because then it will speed rather than slow the ingestion of food . |