Example sentences of "before it [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engine turned , was slow to fire before it came to life . |
| 2 | She got off the ground so quickly with her public relations it was squashed almost before it came to life . " |
| 3 | This new ad had barely been launched before it came under attack from drink-driving campaigners who say it will miss the very people it is aimed at — because they will be at the pub . |
| 4 | However even before it came under attack from conservative administrations it had failed on two counts . |
| 5 | One might embark upon a conversation and find it quite suddenly rounded off before it got under way . |
| 6 | ‘ Tell him there 's a slight possibility that the horses ’ drinking water was tampered with on the train , before it got to Thunder Bay . |
| 7 | With the wisdom of hindsight , it is easy to see now that the Stag 's troublesome V8 , designed and inadequately developed in-house by Triumph before it merged with Leyland , should have been ditched and replaced by Rover 's proven ex-Buick 3.5-litre V8 ( still used by Land-Rover , Morgan , TVR and others ) that was already on the shelf . |
| 8 | The European Court has in fact held that the internal competence may be exercised at the same time as the external competence so that the Community acquired the power to negotiate an international agreement before it had in fact exercised its internal powers , and this theory had in fact been taken further in the fisheries sector in the judgment in the Kramer cases . |
| 9 | That I avoided such a course of action is because of my own understanding of what the institution would allow before it swung into action . |
| 10 | And as the beam of light had spun free , before it exploded into darkness again , an image had burnt into his mind that he would never forget . |
| 11 | Witnesses saw the jet belch smoke before it exploded into pieces . |
| 12 | The militaria section included an interesting group of 10th Hussar material among which was an early sabretache ; this lot attracted brisk bidding before it sold at £1,200 . |
| 13 | The minstrels and people of the town ran after the bull and the person who could cut off a piece of its skin before it crossed into Derbyshire was declared the owner and King of the Music 's Bull . |
| 14 | It was as if some great mass of thunder-cloud was driving up and up , and darkening the sky before it broke into wind and storm and rain ; except that the night was clear and the only movement was the slight rustle of the branches above , silvered against the stars by the moon 's bright light . |
| 15 | It was another seventy years before it arrived in Sussex , then more by accident than design , at least in human terms ; Bede recounted that a Scottish monk , Dicul , had set up a small monastery with five or six brothers at Bosham in the 660s but none of the natives were willing to follow their way of life or listen to their teaching . |
| 16 | Although Sémillon is one of the grapes behind the star sweeties of Sauternes ( and the majority of dry Bordeaux wines ) it was never able to flaunt itself before it arrived in Australia . |
| 17 | Angry creditors have accused a tourist board of living off borrowed money before it collapsed with debts of more than three hundred thousand pounds . |
| 18 | And the audience laughed , with relief rather than humor , and from somewhere at the back someone clapped loudly , making the laughter rise again before it subsided into silence . |
| 19 | With great speed , the CWA created jobs for over 4 million Americans , constructing new highways , airports and schools before it ended in April 1934 . |
| 20 | This became apparent to others before it did to MacDonald himself . |
| 21 | ‘ It is now clear in countries such as the USA , where public apprehension about nuclear power grew before it did in Britain , that people are now moving away from outright opposition , ’ he said . |