Example sentences of "before the first [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be sure to apply before the first of the calendar month when you want the rebate to start . |
| 2 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 3 | I might even get to the office and be measured and out again before the first of the boys arrived . |
| 4 | About half an hour before the return of the aircraft on operational nights we would wake up the duty Met Officer , who was usually snoozing in the ante-room , so that he could mug up on the weather situation before the first of the returning crews came in . |
| 5 | Amazonas is the earliest score here : it dates from 1917 , five years before the first of Villa-Lobos 's sojourns in Paris , and it was there , in 1929 , that Amazonas was first performed . |
| 6 | And the entire thing was preceded by a death at one of the near farms , just before the first of the storms came . |
| 7 | But it 's only available if your contributions were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three . |
| 8 | but it 's only available for contributions that were withdrawn before the first of June nineteen seventy three and you know if you did n't meet that particular date then the only other way of of covering gaps is which is far more expensive . |
| 9 | They rode through just before the first of the big gate timbers descended in an explosion of sparks . |
| 10 | The Prophet sprinted from the alley exit scant seconds before the first of the police cars roared out of the fog and screeched to a halt at the dark gap he had just left . |
| 11 | This causes problems er , if I may say so , er but erm , it , the paragraph does n't make any reference to the date , it 's paragraph five point three , now I want to see debate in the point in erm , implementing it before the first of April . |
| 12 | I think I 'm , I 'm , before the first of April . |
| 13 | Yeah but it 's not cos I , well I want it before the first of December . |
| 14 | Erm , we 've got to send this off before the first of November though . |