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Example sentences for "beforehand"

Lexicographically close words:
befool; befooled; befoor; befor; before; beforementioned; beforetime; beforn; befouled; befriend
  1. The Chaplain had already beforehand looked after and helped on the plough behind a dioptric rule or alidade, in order that the field about which I and the judicial membra are now standing might be cut up into equal prisms or beds.

  2. As this visit is a very memorable one for my hero, I beg every one to settle himself down very comfortably, and split open beforehand the leaves of this narrative, stuck together with bookbinder's gilding, and to listen like a spy.

  3. As to myself, who have nothing sedate about me, no one can wonder that I on my Moluccian Frascati[73] have reeled and twisted beforehand whole skeins of beginnings.

  4. But his design was to give and announce beforehand to the crushed and powerless soul the hope of some hundred florins; for so much he could already expect as inheritance from his well-circumstanced father, Eymann.

  5. It were well for Flachsenfingen if that should happen, because I will buy me beforehand the best French and Latin works on government, and study the subject in them so well that I cannot fail.

  6. On the contrary, the other avalanche lay already beforehand on his breast,--the possibility of a breach with Clotilda's brother.

  7. She advertised beforehand that one of her tormentors was to be at the door at a particular hour, and that another of them was in the kitchen before any did tell her thereof; which accordingly fell out.

  8. There were Prophets who earnestly inquired about that salvation, and closely searched into it--even those who spoke beforehand of the grace which was to come to you.

  9. El Conejo would learn beforehand just what was needed by the stand merchants, and he would buy the articles of the rag men, selling them in turn to the merchants; between this bartering and selling he always came out the gainer.

  10. But I warn you beforehand that there are some pretty tough specimens in this vicinity.

  11. Among these young fellows the most distinguished ones, too feeble to rebel and too proud to complain, knew beforehand that they were delivered up to the sword of war.

  12. We should have concluded from the circumstance that he was a modest, sensible man: we all knew beforehand that he could show off whenever he pleased!

  13. We see no cause beforehand why the run of the cards should not be in our favour: we will hear of none afterwards why it should not have been so.

  14. He will find out beforehand what the play is like, and whether it is the sort of performance his daughter ought to see.

  15. But there is no way of preventing him from bringing out the book; there is no authority which has to be appealed to beforehand for its sanction.

  16. By this mode of action he secured beforehand an amount of support which made the passing of his Bill a matter of almost absolute certainty.

  17. But it is out of the question to suppose that a parent will be able to read beforehand every book that comes into his house in order to make sure that it contains nothing which is unfit for a girl to study.

  18. They explained to Algreen-Ussing that they felt obliged to break their contract with him, but were willing to pay him the compensation agreed upon beforehand for failure to carry it out.

  19. If I had a long-lost brother I should know beforehand that he would prove a tremendous fraternal failure if he appointed to rush into my arms on my birthday.

  20. As we have seen Nature anticipating the plasterer in fibro-cartilage, so we see her beforehand with the glassblower in her dealings with the cell.

  21. As to the short time of incubation, of which so much is made, we have no right to decide beforehand whether it shall be long or short, in the cases we are considering.

  22. I must be beforehand with her, and I wish you to take those papers, and read the account of the case which ended in the acquittal of your mother.

  23. Did you think I was not going to be beforehand with you," sneered Hilliston triumphantly.

  24. Because he wanted to be beforehand with Mrs. Bezel.

  25. When the questions were known beforehand the responses may have been based on information that came from various quarters and on insight into the particular situation about which the inquiry was made.

  26. When the questions were not known beforehand we are in the dark as to the source of the answers.

  27. If you had known beforehand that I should drop you utterly, would you still have told Grandpapa?

  28. Isn't that more stimulating than if you always knew beforehand what I should do or say?

  29. He had talked it over beforehand with each man separately.

  30. I knew beforehand that if Zinaida Fyodorovna liked anything, it would be certain not to please Orlov.

  31. I should never go and see a woman unless I were sure beforehand that she would be beautiful and fascinating; and I should never go unless I were in the mood.

  32. Crusts may be baked several days beforehand and kept closely covered.

  33. Your mother had permission to be there, if she thought fit: but says, she would not for a thousand pound, unless you would encourage her beforehand as she wishes to be encouraged.

  34. That I value my freedom and independency too much, if my friends will but leave me to my own judgment, to give them up to a man so uncontroulable, and who shews me beforehand what I have to expect from him, were I in his power.

  35. Of course he can not understand "why"; so the simple fact to him is that mamma will or won't, he knows not beforehand which.

  36. He does not use one experience as a symbol and apply it beforehand to other things and events.

  37. For any such error the editors wish beforehand to make due apology.

  38. It is impossible, however, to imagine beforehand what these elements should be or how to combine them.

  39. All that can be indicated beforehand is the principle which improvements in this institution would comply with if they were really improvements.

  40. Prosperity is indeed the basis of every ideal attainment, so that prematurely to recoil from hardship, or to be habitually conscious of hardship at all, amounts to renouncing beforehand all earthly goods and all chance of spiritual greatness.

  41. Take care beforehand that you understand its points, its arguments, its emphasis.

  42. This was what we had agreed upon beforehand should be the signal for my summoning a Bow-street officer, whom Mr. Manessa had in readiness.

  43. In predicting beforehand the procedure of ordinary individuals, it must be taken for granted that they always make use of the smallest intellectual expenditure in freeing themselves from disagreeable situations.

  44. So it is also with human actions; one would have to be able to calculate every single action beforehand if one were all-knowing; equally so all progress of knowledge, every error, all malice.

  45. He had succeeded in spite of opposition, for hardly an expedition he had proposed, "though most probable and attended with the greatest success, had not beforehand been treated as chimerical and ridiculous".

  46. He determined to be beforehand at Concord, where the provincials had gathered a quantity of military stores, and on April 18 sent some companies of grenadiers and light infantry under Colonel Smith and Major Pitcairn to destroy them.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beforehand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.