He sees the obstacles, and the adversary he has to encounter, before him.
He desires in many instances to be devoted to a particular occupation, because his playfellow has been assigned to it before him.
He was startled by a titter of laughter from the clerks and by the teller ironically lifting the file and placing it before him.
Taking her doll's hands in her own, she displayed it before him.
It's so good to find one who never thought of it, who hadn't itbefore him as the chief end for which I was born!
Cary, nettled by the smart, tries to close with his foe, but the seconds cross their swords before him.
Now when Harald Harfager took possession of the whole country many people fled before him, both people of Throndhjem and of Naumudal districts; and thus new settlers came to Jamtaland, and some all the way to Helsingjaland.
Gregorius set out from Konungahella late in Yule, and came to Fors the thirteenth day of Yule, where he remained a night, and heard vespers the last day of Yule, which was a Saturday, and the holy Evangel was read before him.
Before him, the beginning of Yule, or the slaughter night, was the night of mid-winter (Dec.
But I will shoot at the man who holds the shield before him.
After giving this order he went to his own room, but he had scarcely got into it when there was a clap of thunder which made the ground shake, and the Fairy Truth appeared suddenly before him.
You may imagine that it was not long before he went to see the Princess, and puss, as usual, marched in before him, arching his back.
Before him, on the right, Rostov saw the front lines of his hussars and still farther ahead a dark line which he could not see distinctly but took to be the enemy.
Then wrinkles ran over his face like a wave and his forehead became smooth again, he bowed his head respectfully, closed his eyes, silently let Mack enter his room before him, and closed the door himself behind him.
He was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be completed.
James was pleased by the dutiful language which the three Councillors used when first they appeared before him.
James had therefore one plain choice before him, to let his army dissolve itself, or to induce the judges to pronounce that the law was what every barrister in the Temple knew that it was not.
Then he galloped to the front himself, reined up, and quietly watched the ranks defile before him.
A short struggle, and the ranks broke and fled before him headlong.
Before him rose a grotesque mass of rocks, that resembled nothing so much as a vast fire petrified at the moment of its most fervent combustion.
The bills were renewed, the old ones destroyed, and the poor ship-owner found himself with three monthsbefore him to collect his resources.
Before him is a dead sea that stretches in azure calm before the eye; but he who unwarily ventures within its embrace finds himself struggling with a monster that would drag him down to perdition.
And have you placed the letter before him, as I ordered you to do?
Strether had woven this web of cheerfulness while they waited in the court for Chad; he had sat smoking cigarettes to keep himself quiet while, caged and leonine, his fellow traveller paced and turned before him.
It had immediately, on Strether's imagination, so deep and soft an effect that our friend could only for the moment keep it before him.
A fire shall go before him, and shall burn his enemies round about.
Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm shall rule: Behold his reward is with him and his work is before him.
A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
Rejoice ye before him: but the wicked shall be troubled at his presence, Who ascendeth upon the west.
And he said that he would destroy them: had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach: To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
Before him was a large bicker of oatmeal-porridge, and at the side thereof, a horn-spoon and a bottle of two-penny.
Pondering the doubtful and dangerous prospect before him, he at length arrived near the cascade, where, as Fergus had augured, he found Flora seated.
The lieutenant, patient as a god who has eternity behind and before him, still hoped for a return of energy.
Why, he is so made on here within as if he were son and heir to Mars; set at upper end o' th' table; no question asked him by any of the senators but they stand bald before him.
As the sentence against himself was read, and the vision of death rose up before him, he fell once more on his knees and prayed, not for himself, but for his enemies.
He walked to the scaffold with his hands bound before him, and two boys played his dead march on drums.
Here was a new craft that a man could tuck away in his head and by the look of the large wide world unfolding itself before him, it seemed that the more a man knew the better for him.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "before him" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
