Example sentences of "[verb] just before [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slivers of butter are often added just before serving ( see Risotto Milanese , p58 ) , but I like to add Parmesan to this recipe for extra flavour , especially if the salame is the only meat being used . |
| 2 | The cat owners ' assessment of their health had returned to what they reported just before acquiring a feline friend , but dog owners continued to report improvements in their health and well being . |
| 3 | The band are using samples from a 1991 speech Bush made just before declaring war on Iraq , showing the President singing a version of Queen 's ‘ We Will Rock You ’ . |
| 4 | Pausing just before stepping out into view , she absorbed the scene with a tight squeeze inside her heart . |
| 5 | Probably the clue to the most plausible explanation — and the one put forward by the man most likely to know , his jockey Dick Francis — lies in the fact that just before he slid to the ground Devon Loch pricked his ears , in the way that a horse might do just before jumping a fence — or on suddenly hearing an unfamiliar noise . |
| 6 | As he noted just before finishing The Woodlanders , ‘ The ‘ simply natural ’ is interesting no longer . |
| 7 | And Jill , the housekeeper I 'd employed just before leaving England , was just about holding the fort . |
| 8 | A peripheral foreland basin begins to develop as the continental crust of the underthrusting plate is bent just before entering the subduction zone . |
| 9 | Joni records that , at their first meeting , ‘ after an endless stream of compliments on the execution of my work ’ , Berenson , who had purchased from Torrini an ‘ Alberto Aringhieri in prayer ’ ( fig.2 ) inspired by Pinturicchio 's celebrated fresco in Siena cathedral , ‘ singled out the Aringhieri for special praise , saying that he found it more skilfully done even than the original , which he had been to see and examined just before coming to my studio ’ . |
| 10 | Fortunately there proved to be a hidden foothold right at the base , which I hit just before dropping into space . |