Before leaving for America, he happened to see his old friend Jean Arp and confided to him his new resolutions.

Before he made that retreat, he telephoned Earl Blackman in Kansas City and asked him to come to Europe with him.

Before his departure, a group of his friends, the Reverend Stidger among them, had given him a luncheon, and Stidger had seen advance sheets of Elmer Gantry.

Before him, mutilated, bleeding to death, they lay.

Before he could duck, another stone struck him.

Before he could snap it on, a stinging blow caught him in the ribs.

Before his departure for Rome, his friends had applied to the Venetian senate for a pension, to enable him to pursue his studies without embarrassment.

Before leaving, he buried his sandals, shield, and sword under a huge rock and told her that, when their son grew up, he should move the rock and bring the weapons to his father, who would acknowledge him.

Before the battle, one of Mark Antony's generals, Quintus Dellius, had defected to Octavian, bringing with him Mark Antony's battle plans.

" Before this, he had published several works on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and its consequences, but his literary capacity was mediocre, his style stiff and cold, and it was his personal character rather than his reputation as a writer that earned him the confidence of the elector.

Before the end of 1976, Bowie's interest in the burgeoning German music scene, as well as his drug addiction, prompted him to move to West Berlin to clean up and revitalise his career.

Before him everyone wrote out equations completely.

Before him, Lý Bí and Mai Thúc Loan also claimed this title.

" Before she can cry any further, Rhett asks Scarlett to marry him saying, " I always intended having you, one way or another.

Before the commencement of the Holy Liturgy, the bishop-elect professes, in the middle of the church before the seated bishops who will consecrate him, in detail the doctrines of the Orthodox Christian Faith and pledges to observe the canons of the Apostles and Councils, the Typikon and customs of the Orthodox Church and to obey ecclesiastical authority.

Before he dies, Heracles throws Lichas into the sea, thinking he was the one who poisoned him ( according to several versions, Lichas turns to stone, becoming a rock standing in the sea, named for him ).

Before the one-day series, Cronje received repeated calls from " Sanjay " asking him to fix a match.

Before James Brown appeared on stage, his personal MC gave him an elaborate introduction accompanied by drumrolls, as the MC worked in Brown's various sobriquets along with the names of many of his hit songs.

Before they attacked him, he threw a rock into the crowd.

Before she sent Jacob to his father, she dressed him in Esau's garments and laid goatskins on his arms and neck to simulate hairy skin.

Before Kerrigan left him, Moon was already dating Georgiana Steele, a British-born former fashion model who worked at Ramport, the band's quadrophonic recording studio in Battersea.

Before joining Hawkwind, he recalled Dik Mik, a former Hawkwind sound technician, visiting his squat in the middle of the night and taking speed with him.

Before Macbeth ’ s opponents arrive, he receives news that Lady Macbeth has killed herself, causing him to sink into a deep and pessimistic despair and deliver his " Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow " soliloquy ( 5. 5. 17 – 28 ).

: Before this time, and a long time thereafter, they believed in groves and barrows, sanctuaries, and sacred enclosures and in the pagan gods.

Before this discovery, it is widely believed that bricks appeared about 3000 years ago in the Western Zhou dynasty since the earliest bricks were found in Western Zhou ruins.

Before Sapir it was generally considered impossible to apply the methods of historical linguistics to languages of indigenous peoples because they were believed to be more primitive than the Indo-European languages.

Before that battle, a series of omens had been witnessed, including a series of lightning bolts, which Fabius had believed were warnings from the gods.

Before the nineteenth century, chemists generally believed that compounds obtained from living organisms were too complex to be synthesized.

* Before 1: 00 a. m .: German police raid an apartment in Hamburg, apparently at the behest of the FBI, believed to have been used by suspect passengers on the airline flight list.

Before the 1990s, string theorists believed there were five distinct superstring theories: open type I, closed type I, closed type IIA, closed type IIB, and the two flavors of heterotic string theory ( SO ( 32 ) and E < sub > 8 </ sub >× E < sub > 8 </ sub >).

Before the end of the 19th century, the Greeks believed that the corpses of werewolves, if not destroyed, would return to life as vampires in the form of wolves or hyenas which prowled battlefields, drinking the blood of dying soldiers.

Before the 19th century, people exhibiting symptoms similar to those were believed to be possessed.

Before amputation, it was customary to remove a quantity of blood equal to the amount believed to circulate in the limb that was to be removed.

Before the 17th Century was over, the Cahow was believed to be extinct.

Before his retirement, Molotov proposed establishing a socialist confederation with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ); Molotov believed socialist states were part of a bigger, supranational entity.

Before long he was believed to be her lover, and, it was hinted, even her husband.

Before Christianisation, in traditional pagan European culture it was believed that the spirit of the corn ( in modern American English, " corn " would be " grain ") lived amongst the crop, and that the harvest made it effectively homeless.

I used to be red when I'd play in front of people because I believed they were looking at my hand, which they probably weren't ... Before my accident with my finger occurred, my oldest brother was killed in a car accident and two weeks afterward my younger sister had her big toe cut off.

Before the Enlightenment, virtually all Jews believed that the Torah was dictated to Moses by God.

Before this, Celebrimbor had believed Sauron to be what he had claimed to be, but realising the truth he and the Elves of Eregion defied Sauron by withholding the other rings from him.

Before his death he confessed to the murder of his brother, and publicly explained the whole fraud, but this was not generally believed.

Before the war, many observers believed the US and its allies could win but might suffer substantial casualties ( certainly more than any conflict since Vietnam ), and that the tank battles across the harsh desert might rival those of North Africa during World War II.

Before Schneerson's death in 1994 many Chabad Hasidim believed that he was soon to become manifest as the Messiah ( moshiach ) — an event that would herald the Messianic Age and the construction of the Third Temple.

Before the opening credits begin, a dedication to Yusuf Hawkins is shown, who was killed on August 23, 1989, in Bensonhurst, New York, by neighborhood folk who believed the youth was involved with a white girl in the neighborhood, though he was actually in the neighborhood to inquire about a used car for sale in the area.

Before the Civil War, many believed democracy was enhanced by increasing the number of elective offices to include such comparatively minor posts as the state-level secretary of state, county surveyor, register of deeds, county coroner, and city clerk.

Before finishing Democracy in America, Tocqueville believed that Beaumont's study of America would prove more comprehensive and penetrating.

The Beringian land bridge is believed to have existed both in the glaciation that occurred before 35, 000 Before Present ( BP ) and during the more recent period 22, 000-7, 000 years BP.

Before World War II, most Hassidic rabbis, as well as many other prominent Orthodox rabbis and leaders, believed that God had promised to return the Jewish people to the land of Israel under the leadership of a Jewish Messiah, who would arrive when the Jewish people had merited redemption.