Before a battle between both parties can become serious, X-23 and Finesse warn their friends that Shaw's body language indicates that he doesn't mean to hurt anyone, but to help the mutant children to escape.

Before Lanier took over, fans were accustomed to Houston's occasional slow starts, but with Lanier leading the way, Houston got off to a hot start, winning 13 of their first 19 contests.

Before the wedding starts, Steve takes Fran for a walk and asks her if they ’ re doing the right thing.

Before the next trick starts, a player may ask to review the cards from the last trick only.

Before the 386 the only way to switch from protected mode back to real mode was to reset the processor ; after a reset it always starts up in real mode to be compatible with earlier x86 CPUs back to the 8086.

Before Charlie starts roaming, he decides to feed Snoopy to show him what has happened.

Before the " Good Times " background starts, the intro to the recording is an interpolation of " Here Comes That Sound Again " by British studio group Love De-Luxe, a dance hit in 1979.

Before the meal starts, a gong is sounded and the attendees stand as the fellows and their guests come in from the Old Combination Room to sit at High Table.

Before the ceremony starts, the player and Ann find Buggs Zapper hiding underneath the table that an eagle is perched on and arrest him for the second time.

Before the presentation starts, people hear Maharaji asking for three promises: a ) to keep in touch, b ) to give Knowledge a fair chance, and c ) to not to share these techniques with anyone.

Before the trial starts, the motions can be based on defects in instituting the prosecution, defects in the indictment or information ( which can be challenged at any stage but are generally raised before a trial begins ).

Before he can actually kill Bunnicula, the demolition starts, crushing both the cat and the rabbit under rubble.

Before a water show starts, the nozzles break the water surface and the lights illuminating the hotel tower turn to a purple hue ( usually ), or red-white-and-blue for certain music.

* Before the game starts players may look at their cards, the Maumaster must say " the name of the game is __ ( some number of cards ) Mau the game has begun " at which point players are no longer allowed to look at their cards unless the Maumaster conitinues with " you may look at your cards " and then must dictate the first player who will start the game and the direction the game will go ( clockwise or counter ...)

Before Alex dies, he starts to believe he is the one who murdered Lauren.

Before the play starts, Gregers worked on a plant in the mountains, and is accused by Relling ( present there as well ), of " intriguing " with the local serfs ( actually commons ).

Before the battle evens starts however, they discover that there swords are going erupting with energy and seems to have lost their power.

Before the game starts and during the half-time break, the Lion walks among the crowd and stands for pictures with the children.

Before the presentation starts, people are asked to keep three promises: a ) to keep in touch, b ) to give Knowledge a fair chance, and c ) to not share these techniques with anyone.

" Before the White Man Came " seems as though it might be about colonialism or racism, but the " White Man " of the filmstrip starts to seem more likely to be a folkloric evil spirit, with a charged and ambiguous relationship to racial stereotypes.

Before a multiplayer game starts, the host can change gravity, regenerate health, and otherwise modify gameplay with " mutators " as is common in the Unreal series of games.

Before it becomes an expressway, Illinois 53 starts out in Long Grove going southwest towards Palatine.

Before gameplay starts, players enter their team names and select an avatar.

Before the opening credits and theme song begin, every episode starts with the following dialogue appearing in a montage of stills from the school:

Before the Kūčios meal starts, the families in Lithuania share kalėdaitis, also known as plotkelė, paplotėlis, plokštainėlis or Dievo pyragai depending on the region of Lithuania a family is from.

* 1997 – Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.

Before its planned February 21, 1967 launch, the Command Module interior caught fire and burned on January 27, 1967 during a pre-launch test on Launch Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, killing all three men.

Before the earthquake of February 27, 2010, which measured 8. 8 on the moment magnitude scale, the last catastrophic earthquake to strike Valparaíso devastated the city in August 1906, killing nearly 3, 000 people.

Before they fire on him, he jumps up to a fire escape and they end up shooting and killing each other with Cigar Face getting away.

Before the conversation goes any further, the plane suddenly hits a flock of birds and nose-dives into a lake, killing the pilot.

Before SID can regenerate, Barnes removes his core, killing him.

Before the plane can reach an airport to make an emergency landing, it breaks in half, catches fire, and crashes on El Carbón mountain near Maravatío, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 167 people on board, It remains the deadliest aviation accident in Mexican history and the deadliest involving a Boeing 727.

Before he can multiply, Gizmo opens a set of window blinds, causing sunlight to pour into the store, killing Stripe.

Before killing himself, Clark turns the defense platforms towards Earth.

Before reaching the airport, the plane belly-lands in a clearing in a wooded area, skids into a creek, breaks into three pieces, and catches fire, killing all 36 people on board.

Before killing himself, Clark turned the planetary defense grid towards the Earth's surface, enacting a " Scorched Earth " policy.

Before the events of Metroid, Ridley led an attack on Samus Aran's home planet, killing all of its inhabitants except for Samus, who is rescued by the Chozo, an ancient, bird-like species of aliens.

Over the week of July 7, 2008, Pearls Before Swine parodied the tendency of Funky Winkerbean towards killing off main characters when it killed off Rat and the strip's own author, Stephan Pastis ( the two would later be returned to the strip via the intervention of United Feature Syndicate ), even utilizing Batiuk's representation of the Angel of Death.

Before leaving office, President George W. Bush authorized SAD's successful killing of eight senior al-Qaeda operatives via targeted air strikes.

Before she came into the grasp of Cyric, Godsbane had driven all of her previous wielders mad, forcing them to sustain her by killing victims.

Before Memnon can kill Mathayus, Cassandra protests, claiming that the Gods favour Mathayus and killing him may incur their wrath.

Before killing himself, he had posted a note on his front door to call the police.

Before he fell, the master, Mr. Edward Curtis, turned the two bow guns, double shoted, to cover the bow, and fired them at the first boarding party, killing and wounding some 15 men ; he fell shortly thereafter.

Before killing him, Sooraya explains to Anole that she is doing this because mutants are a " plague " upon the world and that she has become its cure, " a storm that wipes clean the earth.

Before the partial murder defence of diminished responsibility was introduced to English law in the Homicide Act 1957, this provided an important means of selecting a more lenient sentence for a mother found guilty of killing her infant than the mandatory life sentence or death sentence applying to murder at the time.

Before he is found by members of the Khmer Rouge, he slips into a muddy cesspool filled with rotting human corpses ; in doing so, he stumbles upon the infamous killing fields of the Pol Pot regime, where it murdered millions of Cambodian citizens.

Before killing Vincent, however, Rosso is ambushed by Yuffie, who rescues Vincent.

Before K1 can land the killing blow, Sarah ( having read the note ) arrives.

Before they can, the alien zaps Brianna with his staff weapon killing her, then disappears.