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Example sentences for "before them"

  • Immediately he rose up before them, took up what he had been lying on, and went home, glorifying God.

  • When he has brought out all his own, he goes on before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

  • But he denied it before them all, saying, "I do not know what you are talking about.

  • Already a heavily laden wagon had gone on before them.

  • From the height on which they stood a wonderful panorama of hill and valley, river, lake and plain lay spread out before them.

  • There is a mist over every eye that beholds only the things of time, which prevents it from seeing these as they are, and from recognising a prophet when he is before them.

  • But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.

  • And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing.

  • It was food that came from his Father's court, and so there was dish after dish set before them, and they were commanded freely to eat.

  • He could not wait till the children were out of the way, and afterward neither he nor his wife was sorry that he had spoken of it before them.

  • I've merely a sort of psychological curiosity to know how men like Dryfoos and Fulkerson will work out the problem before them.

  • I really believe it was," she consented, recognizing an architectural resemblance, and she fell asleep again, and woke renewed for the work before them.

  • There also the water widened out before them, and there were eyots in it with stony shores crowned with willow or with alder, and aspens rising from the midst of them.

  • Two young ladies had stopped just before them.

  • I was going up before them; and, as I reached the second story, a door suddenly opened, and a young girl was standing right before me.

  • He went on before them as an ugly Fate might have done, and they kept him in view, and would have been glad enough to lose sight of him.

  • The servant who stood holding the door, asked no question of John, neither did he go before them or follow them as they went straight up-stairs.

  • When they were done, he laid them on a banana-leaf, and gathering some lemons from the garden, carried the dish to the pavilion and set it before them.

  • Then I rose and set meat and drink before them, and we ate and drank: and I began to feed the new damsel and to fill her cup and drink with her.

  • So I went on before them, crying out, "Alas, my master!

  • Another minute and the youth stood before them.

  • Judge what it must have been when the rude pikemen halted unbidden, all confused; as if a wall of sorrow had started up before them.

  • Evangelist's body brake at midnight through the marble and stood before them.

  • Suddenly the door opened, and his grannie stood awfully revealed before them.

  • All their evil deeds come up before them, as if they were doing them all over again.

  • The westering sun threw long shadows before them as they trudged away eastward, lightly laden with the books needful for the morrow's lessons.

  • Before them, a broad eddying current rolled swiftly on its way; and La Salle beheld the Mississippi, the object of his day-dreams, the destined avenue of his ambition and his hopes.

  • Before them, a wide and rapid current coursed athwart their way, by the foot of lofty heights wrapped thick in forests.

  • Down the road a line of Federal privates came driving an ox before them, and he eyed them gravely, wondering in a dazed way if the taste of victory had gone to their heads.

  • On the third day out they reached a little village in the mountains, but before the week's end they had pushed on again, and the white roads still stretched before them.

  • In this way they soon learnt to believe that both Cathelineau and Larochejaquelin were on before them, and they were not long in hurrying after them.

  • Lescure; but who conceived that, as their lord and master was gone before them, it must be their duty to follow.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "before them" 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:
    been able; before beginning; before being; before dinner; before mentioned; before night; before noted; before remarked; before serving; before starting; before stated; before taking; before they; before this; desiring them; good blood; large and; mercurial barometer; must see; reading room; remember also; same year; should turn; single term; smaller quantity; would allow