The whole party waited till he had gone by, before they separated, each one to go his own way.
They had another chat, which lasted for some time, before they at length retired to rest for the night.
Let us crown ourselves with roses, before they be withered: let no meadow escape our riot.
I foretold thee of old, before they came to pass I told thee, lest thou shouldst say: My idols have done these things, and my graven and molten things have commanded them.
The confederates had proposed to act vigorously in Italy against the French; but the season was far advanced before they were in a condition to take the field.
Don Philip, finding himself at the head of two-and-fifty thousand men by his junction with the French general, resolved to attack the Austrians in their camp at San Lazaro, before they should be reinforced by his Sardinian majesty.
Before they separated, however, news arrived of a revolt in Canada.
Before they withdrew, the enemy had set fire to a part of the town, and one quarter of it was reduced to ashes.
Let me explain what I mean, so that my readers may think for themselves a little, before they accuse me of hasty expressions.
But the men that have science only, begin too far back, and, before they get as far as the case in hand, the patient has very likely gone to visit his deceased relatives.
For sequestration of the goods and stuff of the infection, their bedding and apparel and hangings of chambers must be well aired with fire and such perfumes as are requisite within the infected house before they be taken again to use.
Before they could do God's work and man's work they must first be awakened, filled with desire.
But the railroads, before they consolidated, found the political boss in power, and had to pay him for favours.
The goddess of fortune sometimes blesses the persistent even before they begin to persist--perhaps from sheer weariness at the remembrance of previous importuning.
Some, indeed, traverse this world weighing, before they partake, pleasure and business alike.
Suddenly, before they realized it, the farmer had vanished into the storm, and this unexplained desertion of their host gave rise to an awkward silence between them, which each for a while strove vainly to break.
They are careful to demonstrate themselves not only Persons injured, but also that to bear it longer, would be a Means to make the Offender injure others, before they proceed.
To encourage the Zeal of her Idolaters, she bestows a Mark of her Favour upon every one of them, before they go out of her Presence.
But let me beg of them to read the Arcadia, or some other good Romance, before they appear in any such Character at my House.
We suffer Misery, and enjoy Happiness, before they are in Being; we can set the Sun and Stars forward, or lose sight of them by wandring into those retired Parts of Eternity, when the Heavens and Earth shall be no more.
And though it may be said this is awful, and necessary for the Dignity of the State, yet the wisest of them have been remarkable, before they arrived at their present Stations, for being very well dressed Persons.
But Manahem and his party fell upon the place whence the soldiers were fled, and slew as many of them as they could catch, before they got up to the towers, and plundered what they left behind them, and set fire to their camp.
Yet did not he by any means think of fighting against them, but, before they came to blows, to try what persuasions would do.
Bishops, virgins, and even spotless infants, were subjected to the disgrace of a public penance, before they could be admitted to the communion of the Donatists.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "before they" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
