Example sentences of "[noun] just [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the referee talks to the two boxers just before the first round , each fighter stares closely and directly into the opponent 's eyes . |
| 2 | In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them . |
| 3 | Set in Austria just before the First World War the play revolves around Josephea , proprietress of the inn ; Leopold , the head waiter ; several well-to-do local businessmen and the Emperor of Austria who comes to stay at the Inn at the start of the shooting season . |
| 4 | The house has two good sized reception rooms on the ground floor with a kitchen extension just behind the first floor we have the bathroom , the rear elevation and two bedrooms also access to the third bedroom which has been converted from the attic . |
| 5 | He card-indexed half a million radicals just after the First World War , sent agents to intimidate newspapers which dared suggest , in the Thirties , that the banks were not entirely sound , arrested fighters in the Spanish Civil War long after the war was done . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is only in retrospect that the artists ' balls , the fancy-dress dances , the 14th of July celebration seemed more brilliant than usual that summer just before the First World War . |
| 7 | The following example of horse jading happened in Suffolk just after the First World War . |
| 8 | José 's parents died in the influenza epidemic just after the First World War . |
| 9 | The atmosphere just before the First World War was free , live and very young . |
| 10 | His hands strayed down to a spot just below the first frill on her skirt and he pushed his hips against hers so that she could clearly feel the bulge between his legs . |