Example sentences of "before it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before it left Qena three policemen boarded . |
| 2 | Usually the girls devoured the roulade before it left Coleherne Court . |
| 3 | Before it left Scampton it was inspected to gauge the material and manpower needed to re-finish the aircraft , and while it was at Bicester a team from St Athan completely stripped the Lancaster , although it was decided not to apply its new paint scheme until it was finally in situ at the RAF Museum , to avoid damaging the paintwork on its journey to Hendon . |
| 4 | There has been speculation that the body was booby-trapped before it left Awiel , and may have been timed to explode in mid-air . |
| 5 | Between them , the 13 politicians reportedly received 115,000 unlisted shares in Recruit Cosmos , a Recruit subsidiary , one month before it went public in October 1986 . |
| 6 | The pilot episode of M*A*S*H* , ie before it went craposki . |
| 7 | Perhaps the snake came through the air-vent many times before it killed Julia . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Before it met Eve and became a star , the apple was a humble fruit , a gift from the holy Tree of Life , which accumulated meaning in many cultures long before the Garden of Eden myth took shape . |
| 10 | The mini-skirt spread through the western world from many centres ; it appeared in Oxford Street , London , long before it reached Oxford Street , Swansea , and presumably it was seen in Chicago , Illinois , an appreciable time before it dazzled the male eyes of the " city " of Muddy in the south of the same state . |
| 11 | He remarked that the River Aire , even before it reached Leeds , had received the house drainage of a quarter of a million people , and the refuse from 1,341 cloth and woollen factories , 1 silk mill , 1 flax mill , 10 cotton factories , 7 paper mills , 26 tanneries , 13 chemical works , 8 grease works , 4 glue works and 35 dye works . |
| 12 | Then , before it grew dark , I decided on a quick sprint up to the Narrow Neck , the area most vulnerable in times of storm . |
| 13 | The Odiham Society knew of Clark , and could have known of his views on the education of farriers , before it received copies of Vial 's plan on 5 August 1790 . |
| 14 | ‘ It might have run out of pow before it had time . ’ |
| 15 | The Captain picked up his telephone before it had time to ring . |
| 16 | Even before it took Peter from me , I hated the sea . |
| 17 | It seemed to take an unduly long time before it took hold . |
| 18 | There were some attempts at consultation , notably with Commonwealth finance ministers in 1947 and 1949 , but the relationship is perhaps symbolized by the fact that the RSA countries were not consulted on devaluation in 1949 , simply informed of the decision a day or two before it took place . |
| 19 | A claim had been made for travel outside the normal operating area , a journey which should have been authorised before it took place . |
| 20 | Before it took place , it seemed almost equally likely that the premature end of King Edward 's reign might result , not in the succession of his brother , but in the collapse of the monarchy . |
| 21 | After the changeover he soon and predictably became critical of Chamberlain , but before it took place he seemed wholly unattracted by the game of balancing one possible successor against another . |
| 22 | Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy on July 30 said that he had been made aware of the imminent attempt the day before it took place and that a " foreign power " was responsible . |
| 23 | The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) said Mr Rao was too busy fighting a factional war in his Congress Party to read intelligence reports about the attack days before it took place . |
| 24 | CSCE members who were not members of NATO or the defunct Warsaw Pact would invited to accede to the treaty before it took effect in 1993 . |
| 25 | It was a test of skill to move silently among the trees with every sense alert , trying to spot one before it took fright and vanished . |
| 26 | IBM Corp held detailed salary discussions with two other people , one of them Lawrence Bossidy of AlliedSignal Inc before it hired Louis Gerstner as chairman and chief executive , the Wall Street Journal reckons : it says it could n't get the name of the other candidate . |
| 27 | On Nov. 25 , 1989 , a new block at the Greifswald nuclear power station was closed down before it began operations and in May 1990 the entire station was temporarily closed on safety grounds . |
| 28 | But it WAS clearly written by someone with an intimate knowledge of the royal marriage crisis before it became public in Andrew Morton 's controversial book . |
| 29 | Bush , who was Vice-President at the time of the operation , and Gates , who was deputy director of the CIA , had both denied any knowledge of the operation until shortly before it became public in November 1986 . |
| 30 | In the past Gates had claimed to have heard rumours of the operation only on Oct. 1 , 1986 , less than seven weeks before it became public . |