Just before he resigned, Johnson trailed fourth behind Sajid Javid, Michael Gove and Jacob Rees-Mogg in the ConservativeHome website's regular "best next leader" surveys.
Just before Khan resigned from his teaching job, elders from Beeston's Stratford Street mosque told them that their 'inappropriate teachings' had no place in the prayerhouses of south Leeds.
Just before George Entwistle resigned I was watching Attenborough's Ark, a show about some of the strangest animals in creation, and reflecting that it was almost worth the licence fee in itself.
Aged only 44, he has had little administrative experience he was Mr Fox's energy minister for just nine months before resigning to stand against the president's nominee to be his party's presidential candidate.
Thomson said it was Entwistle who refused her request during his brief tenure as director general, lasting just 54 days before resigning at the height of the Savile scandal.
Adamson managed them for just two seasons before resigning to move to Leeds United.
He lasted just one full season, before resigning in August , 1989because he didn't feel like he had the freedom to do his job without interference.
Just ask Andrew Mitchell who, before resigning last week for "swearing" at Downing Street police, had put in an order for a chauffeur-driven Jaguar XF, despite most ministers making do with a Toyota Prius.
He ended the policy of assigning teachers on the basis of race in 1978, just before he resigned.
A Gallup poll in April 2006 put Mr Bush's approval rating among Democrats at 4% 7% lower than Richard Nixon's worst showing just before he resigned.
If 3,000-odd 3,000-oddproduced 2.6 per centurbines0, then to meet the EU target would require something like the "32,000 turbines" mentioned by Davey's producedsor Chris Huhne just before he resigned.
