Sentence examples for burn down before from inspiring English sources

As always since the start of the European debt crisis in late 2009, the builders are working on a time scale different from that of the firefighters, posing a risk that the house may burn down before new buttresses and extensions are approved and in place.

Will the Greece house burn down before they arrive?

"You can do the equivalent of waiting for your house to burn down before you decide to buy the insurance".

Many species will go extinct before we even know them; it is no wonder that systematists feel as though they are watching a huge, diverse library burn down before a card catalog has been prepared (or before anyone has read even 1% of the books!).

Allow the fire to burn down before extinguishing it.

Young's brutality, and his insistence that Utah belonged exclusively to the Mormons, led President James Buchanan to send in the troops; Young armed his men and swore that they would burn down Salt Lake City before they bowed to Washington.

If the campfire smokes a lot when you pour water over it, let it burn down more before adding more water.

When Mr. Loflin visits the farm from his home in western Colorado, he half-expects to see D.E.A. cars racing down Highway 160 to burn down his crop before harvest.

Planning to burn down the apartment before dying, she also steals her mother's pills.

"We don't want to burn down the library before we've read the books," said Karesh.

"He had been so public as a gay activist, and maybe there was this misguided need to burn down everything he was before.