Before the end of the year, Charles Martel had escaped from prison and been acclaimed mayor by the nobles of that kingdom.

Before being extradited, Van Hout and Holleeder stayed for more than three years in France, first on the run, then in prison, and then, awaiting a change of the extradition treaty, then with house arrest, and finally in prison again.

Before I had been vaguely conscious of something rotten somewhere, prison crystallised this.

Before his conversion, Saul ( who later became better known as Paul of Tarsus ) puts followers of Jesus in prison.

Before returning to prison, she committed suicide.

Before receiving his permanent prison assignment, Noriega was placed in the Federal Detention Center, Miami, facility.

Before 1754, when Lord Hardwicke's Act came into force, it was possible for eloping couples to be married clandestinely by an ordained clergyman ( a favourite location was the Fleet Prison, a debtors ' prison in London, in which clergymen willing to celebrate irregular marriages might be found ).

Before leaving Santo Domingo, Dessalines " gave the order to ... commanders posted in conquered communities, to round up all dwellers and subdue them to prison, in so, at first command, have them stomped by mules and other beasts upon arriving to the haitian side.

Before Barère was sentenced to prison, " Carnot defended him on the ground that was hardly worse than himself.

Before Lepke could be executed, New York State needed the federal government to turn Lepke over, as he was currently serving a 14-year sentence in federal prison.

Before Night Falls () is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape to the United States.

Before her brother died from heat stroke, he was also in prison.

Before returning to prison, Valjean visits the dying Fantine and promises to find and look after her daughter Cosette.

Before departing for prison, he addressed journalists outside his home and maintained his innocence.

" Before Lowell was transferred to the prison in Connecticut, he was held in a prison in New York City which he later wrote about in the poem " Memories of West Street and Lepke " from his book Life Studies.

Before he went to prison he published a compte rendu of his trial, which had a still larger circulation than the Discours itself.

Before him went the prison chaplain, routinely and sleepily reading some Bible verses.

Before the experiment, the prisoners were eating fruits and vegetables from the prison garden.

Before the car reached the prison, it was pulled over by armed men and Madero and Pino Suárez were shot and killed.

Before going to their assigned facilities and after their transfer from county jails, most prison inmates are sent to the Reception & Classification Center ( R & C ) in the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility ( CMCF ) to be classified according to behavior level and assessed for treatment.

Before his conversion, Saul puts followers of Jesus in prison.

Before the jury ended deliberation, Moţa shot the traitor and was given a prison sentence himself.

Before 1998, the United Kingdom profile contained a sentence that asserted the UK had gained independence on 1 January 1801.

Before the sentence, Brando delivered an hour of testimony, in which he said he and his former wife had failed Christian.

Before its publication, the publisher asked for Melville to remove one sentence.

Before the sentence was formally pronounced by Judge Matsch, McVeigh addressed the court for the first time and said simply:

Before setting out he persuades the citizens of Athens to pass the death sentence upon Demosthenes and his followers ( including Hypereides, leader of the Athenian patriotic party ).

:: Example: " Before Blakely, courts around the country had found that " statutory minimum " was the maximum sentence allowed by law for the crime, rather than the maximum standard range sentence.

Before Becker can pronounce the sentence, Lutze remembers that he killed Becker 17 years ago on the night US troops came close to Dachau, and realizes that Becker, as well as all the men who witnessed his trial, are ghosts.

Before this sentence was carried out, he attempted suicide by slitting his throat.

Before they get married, Angela emigrates to America and meets Malachy after he is done serving his three month sentence for hijacking a truck.

Before the battle, chronicler Theophanes the Confessor says, the Emperor dreamed of being at Thessalonika, this dream predicted his defeat against the Arabs because the word Thessalonika is similar to the sentence " thes allo niken ", that means " gave victory to another ( the enemy )".

Before leaving, he was the victim of an assassination attempt — Moţa, just returned from prison, was given another short sentence after he led the reprisals.

Before setting out he persuaded the citizens to pass sentence of death upon Demosthenes and his followers, who had fled from Athens.

Before the executioner could cut him down alive, many in the crowd pulled on his legs, and as a result, Garnet did not suffer the remainder of his grim sentence.

Before any capital sentence was carried out, the condemned person was given a drug to render them senseless.

Before the series began, Rodney attended art college for three weeks before he was caught smoking cannabis in a fellow student's room, after which he was quickly expelled and given an eighteen month suspended sentence for possessing drugs.

Before his sentencing, Brady had stated that " no one is above the law " and he would accept " every consequence " of his actions, even if that meant a jail sentence.

Before sentence of death was passed, Sangret declared, " I am not guilty.

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 his sentence could be carried out, he hanged himself in his cell.