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Example sentences for "before the"

  • It is said that Robert Bruce slept here before the Battle of Bannockburn.

  • Having made a small working model of a steam-carriage, I exhibited it before the members of the Scottish Society of Arts.

  • He washed them himself in his lodging-room, and hung them up before the fire to dry.

  • Give it to me, anyhow," he shouted suddenly, and before Zerkow was aware, Marcus had wrenched it away.

  • He was down on his knees by the sink, and he'd pried up some boards off the floor and was digging there.

  • It usually was a bunch of yellow poppies painted on black velvet and framed in gilt.

  • Time passed, a month, six months, a whole year went by.

  • Everyone was moving toward the opposite end of the town except the lone sentinel before the guardhouse.

  • Before the man's companions realized what had happened Billy had possessed himself of the fallen club and struck one of them a blinding, staggering blow across the eyes.

  • The man himself gets large advantages out of it, and that is the main thing--to HIM.

  • It was all dates, and all looked alike, and they wouldn't stick.

  • II Man's Sole Impulse--the Securing of His Own Approval Old Man.

  • He stopped and said, "Are you going to Paris, mademoiselle?

  • The very first week she was there Madame Alphonse had had Eugène's room turned into a linen-room, and she had set me to work at a big table on which were a number of pieces of linen which I was to make into sheets and other things.

  • I had been told that you were vain and proud; but when I saw you crying in the middle of the snow, I thought only that you were suffering, and I went to you.

  • Sit down," we said, in our grave, courteous way.

  • He wrote a pamphlet on Malt on returning to England (for he was an ambitious man, and always liked to be before the public), and took a strong part in the Negro Emancipation question.

  • They're putting down their names,' the Gryphon whispered in reply, 'for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.

  • They can't have anything to put down yet, before the trial's begun.

  • A nice muddle their slates'll be in before the trial's over!

  • Before the war I was an engineer in Damaraland.

  • I had seen the Russian ballet just before the war, and one of the men in it reminded me of this man.

  • As I reasoned it out, the Turks must be in a bad way, and, unless they got a fillip from Greenmantle, would crumple up before the Russians.

  • They burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces of it with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it.

  • I called upon Mount Dunstan this afternoon," Sir Nigel said one evening, before the first of these dinners.

  • And yet each, before the close of the interview, understood the point of view of the other.

  • When, at length, they turned and strolled towards the house, a carriage was drawing up before the door, and at the sight of it, Betty saw her companion slightly lift his eyebrows.

  • The carriage from the Court--not in the least a new or smart equipage--was drawn up before the entrance of the station and Sir Nigel was in a rage because the vehicle brought for the luggage was too small to carry it all.

  • I lighted a candle and set it on a chair beside the bed and took a good look at her.

  • They couldn't have a dance with the men using canes or forbidden to exercise, but Miss Cobb had a lot of what she called "parlor games" that she wanted to try out.

  • She tiptoed over to me, the halo trailing after her.

  • She hath not appear'd Before the Roman, nor to us hath tender'd The duty of the day.

  • But, Misi, is it not so that when David killed Goliath, he cut off his head and carried it before the king?

  • Before the end of 1890, at least, it began to be rumoured that there was dispeace between the two Malietoas; and doubtless this had an unsettling influence throughout the islands.

  • I am sorry to observe that you have lost your husband.

  • I was angry at that false report, until, finding myself on my back in the passage, I began to think there might be some foundation for it.

  • I brushed away the tears that my utmost resolution had not been able to keep back, and I made a clumsy laugh of it, and we sat down together, side by side.

  • Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "before the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attitude towards; before described; before dinner; before him; before mentioned; before noticed; before putting; before reaching; before referred; before related; before she; before taking; before thou; before yee haue heard; before you; cholera morbus; coal fire; equestrian statue; future ages; guardian angels; know none; large dinner; scientific research; supernatural agency; too bad; you call