Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun] before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the board has turned you will have to move forwards quickly to kill the turn before it goes too far . |
| 2 | By transferring the capacity to produce the toxic protein to a different microorganism which does live on roots , it should be possible to kill the insects before they are able to do any material damage to the crop . |
| 3 | The pilot , frantically trying to avoid disaster , felt his craft tilt and knew the big rotors were going to hit the gatehouse before they actually did . |
| 4 | I like to see the goods before I make a decision and have a point of reference for returning them . |
| 5 | Sam is summoned by a friend in the Police Department to see the body before it is taken away . |
| 6 | ‘ We thought , ’ put in Bith , who was feeling a bit bolder now that Goibniu had approved their ideas , ‘ we thought that the lady — that is Reflection 's daughter — might like to see the designs before we put them to the forge , your honour . ’ |
| 7 | Because the drives curved , it was impossible to see the carriages before they were almost on top of you . |
| 8 | Dwarfs are a bit slow so you might prefer a more steady advance with more war machines to pound the stunties before you go in . |
| 9 | The person ‘ goosed ’ then chases round and tries to catch the runner before he or she gets back to the space where the goosed person was sitting . |
| 10 | He could n't start on his plane because there were n't any helpful books and now Mr Crangle was probably going to catch the Bookman before he could make friends with him . |
| 11 | ‘ Got to rush now , Bob ; want to catch the bank before they close . |
| 12 | The person with that number must dash forward and try to catch the plate before it stops spinning . |
| 13 | Shareware and Public Domain programs are often as good as their commercial counterparts , and there is the added advantage of being able to try the software before you buy it on payment of a nominal fee . |
| 14 | They have to learn to accept the delay before an item appears on the screen . |
| 15 | and what would happen to the programme it would be wrong at this point in time , to accept the paper before one knows what the is of the County Council as a whole will be . |
| 16 | And you know one of the big tricks is to force the editors of magazines to write the headlines before you write the pages — that 's something they hate to do , but in Rolling Stone that was one of the rules that we had . |
| 17 | I did n't want you to find the letter before I 'd told you about it . ’ |
| 18 | And getting no response from Viola , who continued fussing over the teapot , he added , more directly : ‘ It would be silly to blue the profits before they 've even begun to come in . ’ |
| 19 | With only 10 days to finalise the proposals before they must be announced in the Queen 's Speech , Mrs Thatcher 's policy unit , chaired by her senior adviser , Professor Brian Griffiths , is also understood to be considering plans to make sharply increased tuition fees , rather than the block grant , the main means of distributing public money to higher education . |
| 20 | If I were Harold of Wessex , which I 'm glad I 'm not , I should send a polite embassy soon , preferably under Bishop Ealdred ; to extract the child before someone else has a better idea . |
| 21 | A witness , Andrew Swanick , told Bristol Crown Court that Kelly took an arrow-shaped knuckle duster knife to work the day before the incident happened . |
| 22 | This will free people from thinking they need to know the future before they prophesy . |
| 23 | Under this method non-recourse trade bills guaranteed by the importer 's bank are discounted at the exporter 's bank ; the latter may commit itself to purchase the bills before the export contract is signed . |
| 24 | I was invited to the Royal Premiere in London to view the production before it came to our theatre . |
| 25 | Graeme 's friend , an estate agent in Chard , needed to view the house before the details could be written . |
| 26 | His hair was white , as my daughters reported when they went to view the body before it was given to the Odonata . |
| 27 | Young children have a very real need to place themselves in time and in a wider social context , and at a very basic level they need to explore the past before they were born and to begin to share the collective human memory . |
| 28 | Now that we do it all on a computer screen we need to define the pieces before we can start . |
| 29 | Christmas shoppers were given 25 minutes to evacuate the area before the van exploded in Market Street only half a mile away from the headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | And if the electronic sniffers or whatever they used to detect the presence of a nuclear mass gave a positive reading would the police want to evacuate the area before an attempt was made to render it harmless ? |