Example sentences of "before it get [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mick Jones is in good form for the duration , messing with his old buddies Strummer and Simonon in ‘ Medicine Show ’ , grooving a bit with Neneh Cherry and storming Trafalgar Square ( ‘ The Bottom Line ’ ) before it got trendy . |
| 2 | I decided to leave before it got dark , first thanking the Padre and his two Breton friends for their very kind hospitality . |
| 3 | Her mother had told her to bring back at least one load before it got dark , and it would be much more fun if I went with her . |
| 4 | which , so that you got the stables shut up before it got dark at four o'clock , ai n't it |
| 5 | before it got dark . |
| 6 | Cursory reading of the financial pages over the past few months would have left the average reader with the impression that while the US and UK economies were laboriously but undeniable clambering out of the recessionary trough , Japan was flat on its back and looking like getting worse before it got better , and that high interest rates in Germany were plunging that economy into a recessionary black hole and dragging most of the rest of the continent with it — now comes a report from International Data Corp saying its Global IT Survey of 5,000 computer executives , 500 chief executives and finance chiefs , and 1,100 local network managers in six biggest economies indicates that growth in computer spending will rise 2% to 3% in 1993 and , surprise , surprise — the US and the UK should outperform the rest of Europe and Japan . |
| 7 | Before it gets dark . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Come on Polly , we better help look for 'em before it gets dark , ’ Dad suggested . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll take you over there now , then , and you can get settled in before it gets dark . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Before it gets dark . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd better set off now before it gets dark , ’ he told the driver . |
| 12 | Before it gets dark and you could n't see anything anyway . |
| 13 | Well I 'll get that in before it gets dark . |
| 14 | I better shut this before it gets wrecked ! |
| 15 | The wise men from Harvard fly in and tell you : ‘ It will have to get worse before it gets better ’ . |
| 16 | THERE are some Conservative voters who , believe it or not , are hoping for a Labour victory , on the simple logic that ‘ it has to get worse before it gets better ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's going to get worse before it gets better . |
| 18 | Hyperactive children may ‘ grow out of it ’ in time , but this takes a long time and their behaviour tends to get worse before it gets better . |
| 19 | Bearing in mind that canoeing is gaining in popularity , along with the leisure industry , the situation will get worse before it gets better . |
| 20 | If rail travel gets worse before it gets better , voters may dump them at the next general election . |
| 21 | The National Rivers Authority says the situation will get worse before it gets better . |
| 22 | But the warning tonight is that , with more severe weather forecast , it 'll get worse before it gets better . |
| 23 | But with no sign of a slowdown in the housing crisis , Coun Dixon warned : ‘ It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better . ’ |
| 24 | But with no sign of a slowdown in the crisis , Coun Dixon warned : ‘ It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better . ’ |
| 25 | But now motoring organizations are warning that the congestion and traffic chaos will get much worse before it gets better . |
| 26 | In this way he can ‘ smell ’ trouble long before it gets serious . |
| 27 | ‘ If the worst happens and it spreads I reckon help should have arrived before it gets serious . ’ |
| 28 | As an adolescent when ’ sex invaded my peer world ’ ; Sylvia constructs ’ Appearances ’ — a ’ glamour puppet ’ who plays by the rules ( except she does n't because she drops her many boyfriends before it gets serious ) . |
| 29 | There 's been a big misunderstanding and I want to clear it up before it gets any worse . |
| 30 | ‘ You ought to go tonight , ’ said Betty , ‘ before it gets any worse . |