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Example sentences for "while before"

  • And fame, too, for now am I known from Mary-le-bone to Chelsea, while before my name was unheard of out of little Mayfair.

  • That body had met but a while before, primed to act on the circular drawn up by Mr. Adams of Massachusetts.

  • We've been looking for you all over the country, but it was quite a while before we got a hint that sent us down this way.

  • It will be a while before they're put up, and I'd be glad if you could ride round and let Flora know what's keeping me.

  • West studied the document for a while before he looked up.

  • After satisfying ourselves we began to descend, President Young and Lorenzo, who joined us a while before we went up, going down on the east side where they were joined by Elders Woodruff, Benson, and Richards with the horses.

  • A while before dark, some of the men came in with a part of a buffalo which they killed.

  • A while before we arrived here four of the brethren went to chase a few buffalo which were lying down at the foot of the bluffs, but they did not get any.

  • I opened my eyes in a hurry and poked my nose out to see what had happened, but there was such a mix-up that it was quite a while before I could see anything but fur and feathers swinging around together like mad.

  • He had told me a while before, about a remarkable and interesting Californian whom he had met and who was a friend of yours, and said that if he should ever meet you he would ask you for some particulars about that Californian.

  • It had got mashed pretty flat under the collapse of a land boom a while before.

  • They were sweating out a romance in an English court in Bombay a while before we were there.

  • The words came now, and I told him everything, while before I had half got through my narrative, Mr John was upon his legs tramping excitedly up and down the little room, and uttering angry ejaculations from time to time.

  • Staniford waited a while before he answered, after a gulp, "Yes, I noticed that.

  • He mused a while before he added: "No wonder Mrs. Rivers was determined to come aboard!

  • Dunham was silent a while before he asked, "What do you suppose her first name is?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    guns were; hunting excursion; public improvements; skin thin; still holding; thought nothing; three places; water shells; what say; while above; while after; while before; while boiling; while every; while his; while living; while since; while some; while the; while their; while there; while they; while thou; while waiting; while warm; while when