Example sentences of "before the race " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the week before the race , she became embroiled in a controversy over the skill of her opponent , the American Leigh Weiss , who had also steered international women 's crews but who was deemed not to know enough of the Boat Race course on London 's tideway . |
| 2 | The reasons for the brutality and racism which are displayed every day at the ports of entry in Britain and at the British High Commissions in the Indian subcontinent are the laws themselves — laws which are seen as essential to wider government policy and which though blatantly racist ( in fact they would not stand up before the Race Relations Act ) were each introduced as a contribution to good community relations . |
| 3 | In the event both were very much on their toes before the race but behaved well enough . |
| 4 | If Adams ' mixed feelings were understandable , imagine the trauma for Stoddart , who bred the horse himself and was his proud owner until just 48 hours before the race . |
| 5 | Mr Stoddart sold Party Politics 48 hours before the race to Mr David Thompson , millionaire , of the Cheveley Park Stud , near Newmarket , for £80,000 . |
| 6 | Powell has earned , the hard way , the respect that prompted a dozen jockeys to telephone him in the week before the race . |
| 7 | Pat might get sick before the race , ’ he added with a grin . |
| 8 | ‘ We are obliged to enter four months before the race , and then we receive this one week before . |
| 9 | To be serious , there will inevitably be those who go down with flu in the last week before the race , and those with lower leg pain which is genuinely becoming worse day by day , rather than better . |
| 10 | What they have to do , though , is to draw a line under their hard training up to April 7 , two weeks before the race , and admit that what 's done is done . |
| 11 | Eat well , but sensibly , in the days before the race . |
| 12 | Sometimes it is awkward because with all the excitement you tend to go to the lavatory a number of times before the race , which leads to difficulty later on . |
| 13 | I chatted to Emmit King before the race . |
| 14 | Before the race he had been tense , after it his fury had seemed spontaneous and genuine . |
| 15 | Although convinced that she had been drugged before the race at York , she had little chance of persuading three Jockey Club stewards that she had not been drunk , out of her depth , hysterical , and she did n't want Nick to know either . |
| 16 | The night before the race , Dungl massages Niki to sleep . |
| 17 | As TV cameras focused on Phylis before the race , she grinned and pointed to her vest . |
| 18 | He said he had only a brief look at the course before the race . |
| 19 | Jackson — forced to pull out of last year 's World Championship final when he suddenly suffered shoulder spasms minutes before the race — declared : ‘ I wo n't make the same mistakes again . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've lived with it for long enough , but I did n't get away with it this year and I 'm running out of time , ’ said the 26-year-old European champion , who needed a pain-killing injection before the race . |
| 21 | So vivid was his description that I suggested the only kindness would be to put the nag down before the race . |
| 22 | Before the race , Mrs Munns judged the best turned-out horse , which she told me she was also doing for the first time . |
| 23 | Cover : Degas — Jockeys before the Race from the collection in the Barber Institute of Fine Arts |
| 24 | Before the race he was hoping to beat his personal best time of 2 hours 44 minutes 49 seconds which he set last year . |
| 25 | There 's nothing they 'd like better than a drama like this just before the race , and do n't think Dara or her escort will have kept their mouths shut ! ’ |
| 26 | I do n't blame him for falling for you , but do n't you go giving him a hard time just before the race ! |
| 27 | As Kate looked into Ace 's narrowed , unforgiving eyes before the race , she knew that , unfair or not , he held her somehow responsible , and his last words to her bore that out . |
| 28 | It was strange to be driving against the press of people leaving the Jerez track , but she was hardly aware of her surroundings any more ; soon she 'd be seeing Ace again , and , in spite of his bitter attack on her before the race , at least she had known deep down that he was n't ready to part from her . |
| 29 | Owner Lord Poulett had a dream three months before the race — and saw The Lamb successful . |
| 30 | The race is a handicap and only the 40 highest-rated horses who still wish to run on the day before the race , are permitted to post . |