Example sentences of "before it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before it came shoulder-high , Thorfinn killed him and saw him drop bleeding over his friend . |
| 2 | Living by himself , he had stopped taking milk : he never got through half a bottle before it went sour , since he drank coffee black and seldom ate cereals . |
| 3 | There is even a suggestion of official encouragement to depositors to use the Manx bank shortly before it went bust . |
| 4 | Former employees at an engineering firm have been told their company borrowed ( 200,000 ) two hundred thousand pounds from their pension scheme just before it went bust . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I decided to leave before it got dark , first thanking the Padre and his two Breton friends for their very kind hospitality . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | which , so that you got the stables shut up before it got dark at four o'clock , ai n't it |
| 9 | before it got dark . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sadly much of the animosity generated about Cochrane and Bennett originated from within No 5 Group and a great deal I was able to counter before it reached tap-room levels , I never felt I was running with the fox because I had great feeling and admiration for both these Olympian " gores , in fact , Cochrane invited me to move to No 5 Group with him when he left No 3 Group , but I declined as I was in mid-tour . |
| 12 | Before it grew any darker , we followed a little path to the well , a deep gap between boulders , and filled our kettle with water from the spring . |
| 13 | An important amendment to the Finance Bill , before it received Royal Assent , was the introduction of a flat rate scheme for farmers with effect from 1 January 1993 . |
| 14 | No reed was to be mown for thatch before it had two years ' growth . |
| 15 | I dug a comb out of my bag and adjusted the driving mirror so I could sort out my hair before it dried frizzy . |
| 16 | Tony Zemaitis told me in ‘ 76 that it would be ten years before it sounded right . |
| 17 | The government 's main concern now seemed to be stifling dissent before it became intractable . |
| 18 | Back in the 1950s Jim Corbett gave the tiger ten years before it became extinct . |
| 19 | The mass media should be free to expose torture before it became institutionalised . |
| 20 | Cos they advertised when before it became illegal to advertise . |
| 21 | Born black in the Aliso Project , in the days before it became Mexican , he became a cop 20 years ago because he thought it was an honourable job . |
| 22 | The government , which had reportedly paid US$120,000,000 in debt interest arrears to the two multilateral agencies in the previous six months , had still to repay a further $540,000,000 in further interest payments before it became eligible for new loans . |
| 23 | Another student Siobhan O'Reilly , who was also in the lift , said that they had pressed buttons for the fourth and tenth floors before it became stuck . |
| 24 | The variable ( a ) ( see above ) illustrates this point ; the speech of a number of persons was transcribed in some phonetic detail before it became clear that tokens of the vowel in a certain range of environments were never front-raised , and seemed moreover to be implicationally ordered with respect to their tolerance of back-raising ( see J. Milroy 1981a for details ) . |
| 25 | Consolidation has been accompanied by an increase in renting , a phenomenon which existed for some time in African shanty towns , before it became common in Latin America . |
| 26 | But his own reasoning was different : there were questions he wanted to ask and things he wanted to consider before it became common knowledge that MacQuillan had received a threat typed on a newsroom machine . |
| 27 | I performed cunnilingus , sodomy , intercrural sex and even safe sex — long before it became fashionable . |
| 28 | She 'd been a sort of feminist before it became fashionable ; never had much time for all that sisterly stuff , but she was positive she was as good as any man and she 'd prove it … |
| 29 | You could say he was an insider trader before it became fashionable . |
| 30 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |