Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] before the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brook flows under the shops opposite , built just before the First World War . |
| 2 | It was an old concrete pillbox built just before the last war to house a gun covering the firth , and it stuck in the sand like a big grey tooth . |
| 3 | Table 4.7 compares the action and control samples between first and second assessments , omitting all those who died or moved away before the second interview , and any who refused to take part in the tests on either occasion . |
| 4 | The organisers were disappointed with the total submission figures , however a number of males may have chosen not to submit : the proportion of males decreased and therefore another form of selection occurred even before the formal process . |
| 5 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 6 | The fair gradually declined during the 1930 's and ceased just before the Second World War ; but it has continued to be proclaimed each St Swithin 's Day , except when this falls on a Sunday and then the custom usually takes place on the following day . |
| 7 | The Central Committee 's Theses , adopted shortly before the 19th Party Conference in 1988 , contained the first official criticism of Soviet foreign policy in the Brezhnev and Gromyko years , suggesting that there had been too much ‘ dogmatism ’ and ‘ subjectivism ’ at this time and that Soviet policy had lagged behind the important changes that were taking place in world affairs . |
| 8 | I 'd passed the first some way back , the second I knew came just before the horizontal passage . |
| 9 | The trouble flared just before the final whistle when Maradona tried to stop a Cadiz defender intervening in a dispute over a foul . |
| 10 | Then you got to er the picture house er that happened just before the First World War that was put up as far as I can remember , I know I used to go there and see erm the Broken Coin which was a serial picture and it was you know er where somebody was up to their neck in water one week and it would say that the continuation of this picture would be shown in this theatre one week from today and you . |
| 11 | The famous ‘ Golly ’ originated just before the first world war from an American design . |
| 12 | I settled happily before the blazing fire , musing upon the stupidity of salmon fishing and certain of my friends . |
| 13 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |
| 14 | John Betjeman , the former Poet Laureate , wrote just before the Second World War ( 'Slough' in Skelton , 1964 , p. 74 ) : |
| 15 | I was offered a cleaning job that I did n't much like the look of so I left quietly before the final curtain . |