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

Before being eaten, mature snap pea pods may need to be " stringed ", which means the membranous string running along the top of the pod from base to tip is removed.

Before the Civil War, baseball competed for public interest with cricket and regional variants of baseball, notably town ball played in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Game played in New England.

Before this, a " cartridge " was simply a premeasured quantity of gunpowder together with a ball in a small cloth bag ( or rolled paper cylinder ), which also acted as wadding for the charge and ball.

Before knitting, the knitter will typically transform a hank into a ball where the yarn emerges from the center of the ball ; this making the knitting easier by preventing the yarn from becoming easily tangled.

Before the emergence of the T-formation in the 1940s, all members of the offensive backfield were legitimate threats to run or pass the ball, and most teams used four offensive backs on every play: a quarterback, two halfbacks, and a fullback.

Before this rule, missed field goals were ( if unreturned ) touchbacks, with the ball placed at the 20-yard line.

Before 2002, it was classified as a " High-A " league, indicating its status as a Class A league with the highest level of competition within that classification, and the fifth step between Rookie ball and the Major Leagues.

Before 2002, it was classified as a " High A " league, indicating its status as a Class A league with the highest level of competition within that classification, and the fifth step between Rookie ball and the major leagues.

Before the Illinois game, George had carried the ball 25 times and scored 5 touchdowns, but for the rest of the season, he had only 12 more rushing attempts and didn't score once.

Before play, the ball is inflated to an air pressure of.

Before the use of chopsticks became widespread, in the Nara period, rice was often rolled into a small ball so that it could be easily picked up.

Before entering the professional ranks he coached college ball at the University of Minnesota, Bowling Green State University, the University of North Dakota, and his alma mater, Coe College.

Before that time, a sideline with only a small amount of space ( typically 6 " to 12 ") existed between the sideline stripe and the barrier which would provide the space for a ball carrier to step out of bounds before hitting the sideline barrier.

( Before this rule, the Jack could not drop back into coverage until the ball is thrown or the Quarterback is no longer in the pocket, and the Jack had to stay within the box designated by the outside shoulders of the offensive line, the line of scrimmage, and five ( 5 ) yards back from the line of scrimmage.

Before a ball was kicked in 1992 / 93, the FAW requested that the club put up a bond as surety that their floodlights would be erected in time for the commencement of the League Cup competition.

Before the game, country music singer Tim McGraw, the son of the late Phillies closer Tug McGraw ( who had recorded the last out in the Phillies ' World Series victory in ), took a handful of his dad's ashes and spread them on the pitcher's mound just before handing the ball used in throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in the game to Steve Carlton.

" Before the second leg of Manchester United's game against Roma in 2006 – 07 he branded Ronaldo " a simple cheat " and a " Poof ball who's never done it in the big games ".

Before the call McNally had " an opinion from the get-go " that the ball had hit Tatum's chest, which he confirmed by looking " at one shot on instant replay.

Before the American Civil War, the pitcher's role was to initiate the action by offering an underhanded throw to the batter, in much the same way that a basketball referee offers up a jump ball to begin play.

Before catching this ball the juggler must throw the ball in the receiving hand, in a similar arc, to the first hand.

Before the two-platoon game became standard in the 1940s, a single platoon game was the norm, where the same players played both offense and defense, each player continuing to hold a position on the field no matter which side had possession of the ball.

Before the ball is turned-up, the assembled crowd sing Auld Lang Syne followed by God Save the Queen.

Before WWII British ' social anthropology ' and American ' cultural anthropology ' were still distinct traditions.

* Gentry, Kenneth L., Jr. ( 1998 ) Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation, Powder Springs, Georgia: American Vision, ISBN 0-915815-43-5.

Before U-27 came round Nicosians bow, Baralong hauled down the American flag, hoisted the Royal Navy's White Ensign, and unmasked her guns.

Before there was an official standard for C, many users and implementors relied on an informal specification contained in a book by Ritchie and Brian Kernighan ; that version is generally referred to as " K & R " C. In 1989 the American National Standards Institute published a standard for C ( generally called " ANSI C " or " C89 ").

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Before the entry into the American market in 1958, Nissan did not produce cars under the Nissan brand name, but only trucks.

Before that day, the flag had served mostly as a military ensign or a convenient marking of American territory, flown from forts, embassies, and ships, and displayed on special occasions like the Fourth of July.

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

Before 1820, Adams was best known as an exponent of American nationalism.

Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that originated from African American vernacular dance.

Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American ( Indian ) and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U. S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.

Before the American company could begin their operations, however, the island was occupied by an Australian company under British license.

Before shooting began in the American War of Independence, American revolutionaries took control of the militia system, reinvigorating training and excluding men with Loyalist inclinations.

Before election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio to Germany ( 1917 – 1929 ), and Cardinal Secretary of State, in which capacity he worked to conclude treaties with European and Latin American nations, most notably the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany.

Before Independence, American merchant ships were protected from the Barbary pirates by the naval and diplomatic influence of Great Britain.

Before being elected President, Jefferson had opposed funds for a Navy to be used for anything more than a coastal defense, however the continued pirate attacks on American shipping interests in the Atlantic and Mediterranean and the systematic kidnapping of American crew members could no longer be ignored.

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 1931, other songs served as the hymns of American officialdom.

* Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis ; Line 244-7

Before guns are fired, the 1889 Apia cyclone blows in and sinks all the ships, American and German.

Before the onset of World War II, CBS recruited Edmund A. Chester from his position as Bureau Chief for Latin America at Associated Press to serve as Director of Latin American Relations and Director of Short Wave Broadcasts for the CBS radio network ( 1940 ).