Before the family can call it a day, they arrive home and find Amber and Ginger waiting in their driveway.

Before he could duck, another stone struck him.

Before the film's release, Warner showed a preview cut to U. S. President Richard Nixon, who recommended substantial changes, including the removal of two songs that struck him as veiled criticisms of the ongoing Vietnam War.

Before she can say who it concerns, she is savagely struck on the head.

Before the 707 could reach the 757, the 757's wingtip struck the water approximately 25 minutes after emergency declaration, making the pilots realize the true altitude of the airliner ; the pilots struggled with the controls and managed to get airborne again for twenty seconds, but the aircraft crashed inverted into the water.

Before Yan could fight back, he was struck down by Guan.

Before Hortense struck Puerto Rico, the local National Weather Service office warned of the potential of heavy rainfall exceeding, with higher totals in the mountains.

Before dawn of the 9th seven Japanese naval bombers struck Nichols Field.

Before the time of Julius Caesar the aureus was struck very infrequently, usually to make large payments from captured booty.

Before 1980 they were struck in 23 carat gold.

Before the opening of the mint, Australian coins were struck at branches of The Royal Mint-the Sydney Mint, Melbourne Mint and Perth Mint.

Before the two could be killed, salvation arrived in the form of Captain America, Iron Man, Daredevil, Yellowjacket and the Fantastic Four, who struck back at the villains.

Before him, medals were struck like minted coins.

Before being struck by a series of flows that, at their fastest, would have taken less than a minute to reach his position, Johnston managed to radio " Vancouver!

Before the final blow could be struck, Rhinox, tipped off as to its location by the Dinobot clone, crashed an Autobot shuttle into the bridge of the Nemesis, crippling the ship and forcing it to crash.

Before the introduction of the postage stamps, prepayment of postage was indicated by hand struck stamps known as Bishop-mark, named after Colonel Henry Bishop ( June 1660 to April 1663.

Before Barbara struck the Outer Banks, officials ordered evacuations for a few islands, and several thousand tourists voluntarily left the region.

Before the events of the novel, Ali had been struck with polio, rendering his right leg useless.

Before it can kill them it is struck by a massive lightning: the Great Hero, Great Mazinger has returned!

Before playing the tsuzumi, the player will breathe very close to the head that will be struck.

Before the advent of modern medicine after World War I, a soldier struck by a sword bayonet was very unlikely to survive.

Before leaving, Moses, struck by the familiarity of the phrase " Mark 13 ," consults his Bible, and discovers that the passage contains the phrase, " no flesh shall be spared " ( Mark 13: 20 ).

Before he can take action, however, he is struck dead in the fog.

He described the ordeal in a letter that appears in the book The Jesuit Martyrs of North America: " Before arriving ( at the Iroquois Village ) we met the young men of the country, in a line armed with sticks ...", and he and his fellow Frenchmen were made to walk slowly past them " for the sake of giving time to anyone who struck us.

Before his trial, he struck a plea bargain with prosecutor Harvey Dent to testify against Loeb for a lighter sentence.

Before hitting the pole, Mr. Stone's car brushed against a car driven by Alva W. Vernava, 21, of 23 Maple Ave., North Providence, tearing away the rear bumper and denting the left rear fender of the Vernava car, police said.

Before the Brunei People ’ s Party electoral success, a military wing had emerged, the North Kalimantan National Army ( Malay abbreviation TNKU, Tentera Nasional Kalimantan Utara ), which saw itself as an anti-colonialist liberation party.

Before the formation of Malaysian Federation, the Philippines claimed that the Malaysian state of Sabah in north Borneo is within their territorial rights based on historical facts of the Sultanate of Sulu's leasing agreement with the North Borneo Company, is presently an unresolved claim against Malaysia.

Before the merger, the employees of the HBC, unlike the North West Company, did not participate in its profits.

Before and during the Civil War, the Ohio River was called the " River Jordan " by slaves crossing it to escape to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad.

Before the All-Channel Receiver Act of 1962 required US television receivers to be able to tune the entire VHF and UHF range ( which in North America was NTSC-M channels 2 through 83 on 54 to 890 MHz ), a set-top box known as a UHF converter would be installed at the receiver to shift a portion of the UHF-TV spectrum onto low-VHF channels for viewing.

Before the 1980s, the North American phrase " trick-or-treat " was little known in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and when introduced was often regarded as an unusual and even unwelcome import.

Before 1975, North Vietnam had maintained that the Central Highlands and the Giai Truong Son were strategic areas of paramount importance, essential to the domination not only of South Vietnam but also of the southern part of Indochina.

Before the construction of the North Portico, most public events were entered from the South Lawn, which was graded and planted by Thomas Jefferson.

Before the North American rental release on May 9, Blockbuster Video wanted to purchase hundreds of thousands of extra copies for its " guaranteed title " range, whereby anyone who wanted to rent the film would be guaranteed a copy.

Before season 2008, the Archer-Hird Medal was created honouring Hird and former North Melbourne Football Club star Glenn Archer.

Before 1852 those on the north side of the Platte crossed the North Platte to the south side at Fort Laramie.

Before that, contact with African slave markets was made to ransom Portuguese that had been captured by the intense North African Barbary pirate attacks on Portuguese ships and coastal villages, frequently leaving them depopulated.

Before the American Civil War, Southern defenders of African American slavery invoked the concept of wage slavery to favorably compare the condition of their slaves to workers in the North.

Before the Hutterites emigrated to North America, they relied on manufacturing to sustain their communities.

Before reaching Wellington ( on New Zealand's North Island ), brief stops were made at Port Hardy ( on d ' Urville Island ) and Queen Charlotte Sound ( on New Zealand's South Island ) and Challenger passed through the Cook Strait to reach Wellington.

Before Heard's death, he had been included on the Legacy II sampler from Windham Hill's High Street label, and was nearly finalizing a mainstream contract with Bruce Cockburn's label, True North Records in Canada.

Before the boundaries between the two Carolinas were fixed ( several changes took place between 1772 and 1805 ), the northern portion of York County was part of Bladen County, North Carolina, and in 1750 it was included in the newly created Anson County, North Carolina ( the first land grants and deeds for the region were issued in Anson ).

Before the 2010 United Kingdom general election it was divided into three constituencies contained wholly within the borough-Brent South, Brent East and Brent North.

Before finding work, Heine visited the North Sea resort of Norderney which inspired the free verse poems of his cycle Die Nordsee.

Before the Satsuma City School System was founded, the schools that served Satsuma included Robert E. Lee Primary School ( Kindergarten through 2 ), Robert E. Lee Intermediate School ( 3 through 5 ), North Mobile County Middle School ( 6-8 ), Satsuma High School ( 9-12 ).

Before incorporation, it was known as the North Parish of New London.

Before North Aurora was established as a Village in 1905, there was a loosely organized volunteer fire brigade with mostly buckets and a hose cart.

Before the opening of the North Coast Railway Line, the only way to transport large items of heavy but low value, such as timber, was by coastal shipping.