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

Before leaving, he took one last, lingering look at the apartment.

Before leaving the islands, the Japanese rounded up and executed 750 civilians.

Before leaving, he had stacked all his cultures of staphylococci on a bench in a corner of his laboratory.

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 leaving, he met Milton Caniff, and the two became lifelong friends.

Before leaving Whorf presented the paper " Stem series in Maya " at the Linguistic Society of America conference, in which he argued that in the Mayan languages syllables carry symbolic content.

Before leaving, Lee learns from his teacher that Han's bodyguard O ' Hara ( Robert Wall ) had been involved in the death of his sister, Su Lin ( Angela Mao ), years ago, when she committed suicide to save herself from dishonour after being cornered by O ' Hara and a collection of Han's thugs.

Before leaving, in a meeting with all the Papal vicars held on April 29, 1357, Albornoz issued the Constitutiones Sanctæ Matris Ecclesiæ, which regulated all the matters of the Papal States and its division into provinces.

Before leaving, Rebecca comes to bid Rowena a fond farewell.

These were interrupted by service in the U. S. Army Signal Corps during World War II, where he worked as a codebreaker and participated in the landing at Casablanca. Before leaving for Europe in 1943, Greenberg married Selma Berkowitz, whom he had met during his first year at Columbia.

Before this time, workers showed their fury by leaving their factory and standing in picket lines.

Before leaving for Scandinavia the group took part in a recording session for the P. J.

Before leaving Prestige, however, Davis had to fulfill his obligations during two days of recording sessions in 1956.

Before leaving for Malaysia, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed doctored Hazmi's Saudi passport in order to conceal his travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and make it appear that Hazmi had come to Malaysia from Saudi Arabia via Dubai.

Before leaving Cyprus Richard married Berengaria of Navarre, first-born daughter of King Sancho VI of Navarre.

Before leaving Hollywood for Europe in 1952, following the problematic production The Crimson Pirate for Warner Bros., his third and last film with Burt Lancaster, Siodmak had directed some of the era's best film noirs, more than any other director who worked in that genre, twelve in all.

Before reaching the Lebanese border and the Anti-Lebanon Mountains, the Jabal an Nusayriyah range terminates, leaving a corridor — the Homs Gap — through which run the highway and railroad from Homs to the Lebanese port of Tripoli.

Before leaving, he developed acquaintances with senior Bolsheviks including Anatoly Lunacharsky, the People's Commissar for Education, who told him: " You are a revolutionary in music, we are revolutionaries in life.

Before leaving school, towards the end of 1855, he became assistant to the painter and professor Louis ( Lodewijk ) Jan de Taeye, whose courses in history and historical costume he had greatly enjoyed at the Academy.

Before leaving, however, he buried his sandals and sword under a huge rock and told Aethra that when their son grew up, he should move the rock, if he were heroic enough, and take the tokens for himself as evidence of his royal parentage.

Before beginning the story-telling sessions, the ten young Florentines, 7 women and 3 men, referred to as the Brigata, gather at the Basilica di Santa Maria Novella and together decide to escape Black Death by leaving the city to stay in a villa in the countryside for the next two weeks.

Before leaving for Europe, Agnew worked at the Maryland Casualty Company where he met Elinor Judefind, known as Judy.

Before father and son can be reconciled, George is killed at the battle of Waterloo, leaving the pregnant Amelia to carry on as well as she can.

Before leaving, he had the nobles elect and crown his son Henry Berengar king.

Before 1974, the records of the HBC were kept in the London office headquarters.

Before the 19th century, the first use of the word " police " recorded in government documents in the United Kingdom was the appointment of Commissioners of Police for Scotland in 1714 and the creation of the Marine Police in 1798 ( set up to protect merchandise at the Port of London ).

Before 1700, London brewers sent out their beer very young and any aging was either performed by the publican or a dealer.

Before the release of the album, the band played four shows in May at the London Roundhouse where they played the album and its accompanying films in their entirety.

* Renfrew, A. C., 1973, Before Civilisation, the Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe, London: Pimlico.

Before he began his writing career he worked as an illustrator in New York and, in 1960, as an art director in a London advertising agency.

Before completing his studies, Boyle decided " to gain learning, knowledge, and experience abroad in the world " and left London for a new start in Ireland.

Before December 2009 it had a circular route around the centre of London on the north side of the River Thames linking the main line railway termini.

Before the development of the Kent coalfields in the early part of the 20th century, house coal from the north for distribution in south London and as far afield as Maidstone and Brighton was an important source of revenue.

Before the Industrial Revolution, much of the area was farmland, providing food for the City of London and surrounding population centres ; and with particular specialisms, such as growing lavender on Lavender Hill ( nowadays denoted by the road of the same name ), asparagus, sold as " Battersea Bundles " or pig breeding on Pig Hill ( later the site of the Shaftesbury Park Estate ).

Before the 2008 recession it was predicted that the coming of the East London line to Crystal Palace station would make the area more attractive for property purchasers and business owners.

Before the creation of the County of London in 1889, Stockwell was part of Surrey.

Before the coming of the railway, with the opening of the Bexleyheath Line on 1 May 1895, Welling was a village on the main road between London and Kent ( Watling Street ).

Before the war a number of 1930s council housing blocks were added to the stock, but it was after the war, partly as result of bomb site redevelopment, that the council housing boom really got into its stride, reaching its peak in the 1960s with the construction of several extensive estates, both by the Metropolitan Borough of Islington and the London County Council.

Before the Beeching Axe the town had a number of railway stations and a direct link to London down the east coast.

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

Before establishing himself as a successful writer and comic Monkhouse appeared on stage in London, first as Aladdin in a stage show of the same name written by SJ Perelman and Cole Porter.

Before 1104 the father was given the prebend of Cantlers by Maurice, Bishop of London, and the family moved to England.

Before the death of the old king he became chaplain to Maurice, Bishop of London, whom he had formerly served in the chancery.

* Macdonald, B., Harrington, J., and Dimery, R., Albums You Must Hear Before You Die ( London: Quintet, 2006 ), ISBN 0-7893-1371-5.

Before that happened, the main adult characters teased Big Bird when he said he had seen the Snuffleupagus, because they did not believe there was such an animal, often despite evidence to the contrary ( such as an oversized teddy bear that Snuffy had left behind, or segments in which Snuffy interacted with other characters, such as a street scene where Snuffy was seen playing London Bridge with some of the neighborhood kids ).

* Essays on Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Before Sunrise, edited by James Luchte, London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008.

Before the line closures of the Beeching era, the lines to Buxton and via Millers Dale were considered the main lines from London to Manchester, carrying named expresses such as The Palatine.