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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a friend before" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to convey a sense of prior friendship or relationship, but it requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "I always considered him a friend before anything else."
Alternatives: "a friend first" or "a friend initially".
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Here let me show you," he said, grabbing a phone from a friend, before playing a gory video with the headless corpses of Isis militants piled on the bonnet of an American Humvee.
Make sure that you DON'T like him as more than a friend BEFORE you turn him down.
There's something there," he told a friend before created the podcast "Making Gay History".
"Who's the champ now?" Larry Dorsey, 60, asked a friend before the service began.
Instead, she enjoys some quiet time with a friend before opening up for the day.
Mr. Anderson is accused of tipping off a friend before the acquisition.
Phil Joel, 26, was considered a friend before he was recruited as bass player.
Such solidarity and awe I felt, you'd think I'd never had a friend before.
I would like to go into Paris to visit a friend before boarding the connecting flight.
One zipped by on Rollerblades and waved to a friend before stopping to shove a sandwich into his backpack.
The memoir, owned by his daughter, Lydia Turnage Connolly, was discovered by a friend before Mrs. Connolly's death, not afterward.
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