Example sentences of "a [noun sg] before it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may have been driven around a bit before it entered the water . |
| 2 | ‘ You must have a nose like a bloodhound ; sniff out a murder before it 's happened ! ’ |
| 3 | For a moment before it separates itself from its surroundings I catch a glimpse of its round eyes , beautiful but stupid , taking in the sight of a forty-three-year-old writer wearing shorts and a faded polo shirt , his face somewhat craggier than he sees it in his mind 's eye , his waist a little more solid and his eyes bright with the thoughts he is generating . |
| 4 | The sword struck a boulder concealed in the heather concealed , a watcher might have considered , so artfully that a moment before it had not appeared to be there at all . |
| 5 | It lifted him for a moment before it threw him down , so that for a second he saw what he wanted : that the sea had already overrun the beach and the rocks and the shingle and was advancing like a black wall rimmed with white over the slipways and grasslands of Orphir . |
| 6 | This went on for quite a while before it spoke again . |
| 7 | A cook , sitting in the shade of a market stall , cackled with laughter and performed his own minor execution of a hapless chicken , slicing the neck and allowing the headless corpse to totter for a while before it collapsed in a heap of bloody feathers . |
| 8 | The rain will have cleared by tomorrow morning , giving a bright sunny start to the day , although it will be a while before it warms up . |
| 9 | They were only a hundred yards away now , still as a cobra before it strikes . |
| 10 | With that , I galloped off for the train , and even had time for a drink before it left . |
| 11 | The metal road that left the highway twisted between pine-clad hills for more than a mile before it dropped to the lower level of a wide plateau that stretched along the river cliffs . |
| 12 | The leak was accurate and I was being forced to the floor of the House of Commons to defend a policy before it had been to Cabinet . |
| 13 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 14 | The nits , also brown in colour , can be seen attached to the pubic hair , and examination with a magnifying glass will distinguish those containing a developing larva , which takes a week before it leaves the egg , from those which have already been vacated . |
| 15 | My last memory is about a week before it happened . |
| 16 | and that a week before it happened , what 's happened to her , cos she do n't hear from her , and she said you know , I , it 's been twenty five years since my mum died Anne , she said and if I did n't make a life , |
| 17 | Forfeiture , that is the right to end a lease before it determines naturally , is the landlord 's security over the property . |
| 18 | This lethal game is often called ‘ last across ’ , the idea being to see how close you can be to a train before it hits you or you can get out of the way . |
| 19 | There 's also lots of built-in security — you need to point a credit card-style infra-red sender at the PC and press a button before it lets you enter your name and password ; only then does it load DOS . |
| 20 | I saw Sophie swing lithely on to a bus before it stopped moving . |
| 21 | Moreover she breathed out power also ; one felt it in the air as one feels a thunderstorm before it breaks , and it seemed to me that this power was not quite human , that it drew its strength from afar and dwelt a stranger to the earth . |
| 22 | He 's got a fortnight before it 's got ta go in anyway |
| 23 | Where there have been mutual credits , debts or other mutual dealings between a company before it goes into liquidation and any other creditors , Rule 4.90 provides that account should be taken of what is due from each party , and the sums due from one shall be set off against the sums due from the other . |
| 24 | Absolutely , does it make sense for , for husband and wife over there to wait for the second one to have a heart attack , or the second one to have a cancer before it pays out , |
| 25 | Living by himself , he had stopped taking milk : he never got through half a bottle before it went sour , since he drank coffee black and seldom ate cereals . |
| 26 | Regular usage will help to pinpoint a problem before it turns into a crisis . |
| 27 | Most importantly he can arrest a slide before it becomes unsaveable by using the outer footrest as an early warning system . |
| 28 | Although that session had not given any indication of why her water phobia had begun , at least it had shown her that there was a time before it existed . |
| 29 | ‘ Even if a company comes out with a new cap , we can still make an adaptor before it goes on sale , says Mr Garnett . |
| 30 | The glass rocked and wavered for an instant before it fell and a dark pool of wine spread over the tablecloth between them . |