Example sentences of "[adv] before [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently before some time in December , he was diagnosed as having an ulcer and almost immediately afterwards had a slight stroke . |
| 2 | Long before this time wooden huts were made in these areas , by primitive peoples , which had domed structures built over square forms supported by means of planks set across the angles of the square thus making it into an octagon . |
| 3 | yes and everybody not too happy as you can probably imagine erm Peter erm while we were talking to Paul Simpson , in fact Brian Horton was holding his press conference and I think he said the same as everybody else ; ‘ Bolder the opposition goalkeeper had an inspired game , but really United had the chances and the possession , and really everything to kill Charlton off long before half time and really put no pressure on themselves in the second half . ’ |
| 4 | Refrigeration was in its infancy , so that perishable goods just had to be sold which meant that prices were gradually reduced in the hour or so before closing time . |
| 5 | A second or so before half time Bradford should have been dead and buried as Tommy Jones hit the post . |
| 6 | Perhaps before this time the seas were not at the right temperature or did not have the chemical composition to favour the deposition of the lime from which most marine shells and skeletons are constructed . |
| 7 | Neill knocked home from six yards after Moore delivered a fine cross for the opener , then shortly before half time McFeeley got the second with a neat lob from 18 yards . |
| 8 | I would suggest going just before closing time and with luck you will be by yourself in front of the superb Diamond Monstrance of 1698 designed by Fischer von Erlach . |
| 9 | It was just before closing time when a girl dropped an envelope in my lap . |
| 10 | I managed to be in Galerie des Glaces ( which really is one of the wonders of the western world ) just before closing time , entirely alone with the evening sun slanting through its tall arched windows . |
| 11 | Police were called to this hotel in Northampton just before closing time last night . |
| 12 | I got Bunny out of the pub just before chucking-out time and with a bit of persuasion he agreed to take me as far as Hackney , dropping me off at the end of Stuart Street . |
| 13 | Bishop , who worked manfully to keep West Ham moving forward from midfield , also had a 20-yard first-time shot turned aside by the goalkeeper just before half time . |
| 14 | Beardsley put Everton in front just before half time . |
| 15 | Jim Magilton provided United with this chance just before half time . |
| 16 | Landing kicks on target has been Gloucester 's main weakness this season and when Roberts made it two out of two just before half time they must have thought their luck was changing . |
| 17 | Dave Mitchell made it 2-0 just before half time . |
| 18 | Just before half time , the cherry and whites , who were black and whites for this game , forced a way through for the second try . |
| 19 | Tommy Mooney should have done better just before half time after going through but he rushed his shot and failed to even hit the target . |
| 20 | Shrewsbury rallied briefly just before half time . |
| 21 | Guisborough went further ahead through a McLuskey penalty before Redcar full back Richard Forrest ran 70 yards for a superb try just before half time . |
| 22 | MacDonald equalised just before half time and added three more in the second half . |
| 23 | Midfielder Dino Baggio added a second from another corner just before half time and substitute Fabrizio Ravanelli killed off the Portuguese side when he hammered the third shortly after coming on midway through the second half . |
| 24 | Just before half time , Kevin Leach made a terrific save from another Cooper volley , just tipping over to prevent them going down two nil . |
| 25 | And just before half time , the erm visitors got their goal erm when Steven scored from another corner , and the score at half time was two one . |
| 26 | They never looked back after Neil Hodgson put them in the lead after 24 minutes , Joe Peel adding tow more before half time . |
| 27 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
| 28 | Louis Sherwood asserts in his chairman 's report that ‘ the directors are confident that satisfactory new arrangements will be put in place well before that time ’ . |
| 29 | The system for investing students as or granting was thoroughly reformed and reorganized in the mid-sixteenth century , as mentioned below , but it existed in some form , difficult to define precisely , from well before that time . |
| 30 | It was Bolder again before half time , making a tremendous save to deny a Simpson shot and then three minutes before half time , his best save of the game ; somehow he kicked kneed Nogan 's shot away from five yards after more good work by United down the left side . |