Example sentences of "[noun sg] just before " in BNC.
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| 1 | FitzAlan reined in his horse just before the trees thinned out . |
| 2 | Coming in on this conspicuous palm tree on a course of 310 °M , you will pass to port a prominent flat-topped and nearly awash rock just before you get to the reef opening itself . |
| 3 | Like the commander , whom Peter met at Plumford Vicarage just before they left for Abbotsfield , the car had seen better days . |
| 4 | A MOTHER has condemned thieves who stole the wheels off the family car just before her cancer victim daughter was to set off for a hospital check up . |
| 5 | Blood gushed from a wound on her temple , running down into her eyes , but she saw Nahum Morey 's fatal collapse just before she crumpled into unconsciousness at the foot of the stairs . |
| 6 | ‘ I gave him a jam sandwich just before you arrived . |
| 7 | You know I pl I I started this album really I started writing it while I was doing Love Hurts in Israel and Zoe would s sort of catch in the caravan , what the hell are you doing now , you know I was writing lyrics and thi , and I started to get keyed into this album just before I finished Love Hurts . |
| 8 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 9 | EC negotiator Ray MacSharry quit , claiming the Frenchman vetoed an accord just before it was to be signed on Tuesday . |
| 10 | Guillimont equalised midway through the first half from the penalty spot , while Manor were unlucky not to regain the lead when the referee blew for half-time just before a Lee Clutterbuck shot crossed the line . |
| 11 | Dexter had snatched them from the canteen just before he and Blanche had set off . |
| 12 | I 'd grappled up the slope on foot just before and knew how steep and icy its surface was and which of the bigger rocks had to be dodged because they would foul the car 's underside . |
| 13 | Champagne ages perfectly in the producers ' cellars with a cheap crown cork , and only sprouts its traditional mushroom just before it goes on sale . |
| 14 | ‘ What 's wrong with her ? ’ asked Juliet , remembering the thin , dark-haired woman who had arrived on a stretcher just before she went for her coffee break . |
| 15 | To lay an egg , the female grasps a hair and deposits some ‘ cement ’ which is extruded on to a hair just before the egg is laid . |
| 16 | I made my decision just before I left for Australia . |
| 17 | Two dentists had been killed in their clinic by a shell just before the convoy arrived , and after it left shots were fired at the medical shift coming from Sarajevo to relieve the surgeons . |
| 18 | I gave him a final wave just before we turned into the approach road leading to the village . |
| 19 | According to the crew of a USAF storm-tracking WC-130 Hercules which penetrated the eye of the hurricane just before it struck Homestead , peak wind speed was 170 knots and pressure dropped to 993 millibars . |
| 20 | The pilot slammed the powerful jets into reverse thrust , bringing the giant plane to a halt just before he ran out of runway . |
| 21 | The footwork appears again and again in different enchaînements during their other appearances , notably in the short solo for Mercutio when he dances in a more tragic vein just before he dies . |
| 22 | The Church Union , organ of Anglo-Catholics , decided to hold a eucharistic congress at the Albert Hall just before the Lambeth Conference opened ; a demonstration of Anglo-Catholicism at a key point of Anglican history . |
| 23 | Twice he was called to the telephone just before the curtain went up and he had long intense conversations with his hand over the mouthpiece . |
| 24 | I was out on the gallery just before I went to bed , looking at all the tapestries and statuettes . |
| 25 | 267 , which came to the Privy Council just before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was created , provides a valuable illustration of the fact that in the absence of such arrangements as were made between the Inns of Court and the judges in this country , the power to judges to determine who were fit and proper persons to practise before them , where it existed , was regarded as essential for the due administration of justice . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought you 'd never ask , ’ she whispered , and in the gathering darkness she heard a ragged sigh just before his head came down and blocked out the stars . |
| 27 | But Her Majesty 's Inspectorate was heavily criticised , in turn , for conducting the intensive exercise just before the 193-pupil school was due to close , last June . |
| 28 | But Her Majesty 's Inspectorate was heavily criticised , in turn , for conducting the intensive exercise just before the 193-pupil school was due to close , last June . |
| 29 | The manservant dropped to one knee , brought the crossbow up , again the death-bearing click , and the whirring crossbow bolt caught the second assassin just before he slipped into the darkness . |
| 30 | It had been purchased by my immediate boss just before she had left to work somewhere else . |