Sentences with before
be·fore
B b - Annie was born a few weeks before Christmas.
- Stock prices climbed close to the peak they'd registered before the stock market crashed.
- He spent his early life in Sri Lanka before moving to England.
- The war had ended only a month or so before.
- It's interesting that he sent me the book twenty days before the deadline for my book.
- Before Gallacher could catch up with the ball, Nadlovu had beaten him to it.
- I've been here before.
- It was some time before the door opened in response to his ring.
- There was additional work to be done before all the troops would be ready.
- They drove through a tall iron gate and stopped before a large white villa.
- The turn is about two kilometres before the roundabout.
- The Governor will appear before the committee next Tuesday.
- The game followed a colourful opening ceremony before a crowd of seventy-four thousand.
- Everyone in the room knew it was the single hardest task before them.
- Her husband, her children, and the Church came before her needs.
- He'll resign before he agrees to it
- Standing before the altar
- To withdraw before one's enemies
- To be brought before a judge
- To put friendship before money
- I've heard that song before
- Come at ten, not before
- He paused before the door
- A thought flashed before her mind; he stood before his accuser
- The matter before the committee
- He left before noon
- The hardest task was before them
- To choose death before dishonor
- Drop in before you go
- I'd die before I'd tell
- All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
- I want this done before Monday.
- He stood before me. We sat before the fire to warm ourselves.
- He performed before the troops in North Africa. He spoke before a joint session of Congress.
- The case laid before the panel aroused nothing but ridicule.
- In alphabetical order, "cat" comes before "dog", "canine" before feline".
- An entrepreneur puts market share and profit before quality, an amateur intrinsic qualities before economical considerations.
- Phone me before noon.
- His shadow advancing before him; She stood before the window.
- The golden age is before us.
- They would die before surrendering.
- We put freedom before wealth.
- It's ten before three.
- He was summoned before a magistrate.
- Before such wild accusations, he was too stunned to reply.
- A crime before God and humanity.
- Bending before the storm.
- Income before deductions.
- The king entered with macebearers walking before.
- If we'd known before, we'd have let you know.
- Begin at noon, not before.