Sentence examples for before I learnt from inspiring English sources

The Zulu couple were slower to communicate, and we had been under way for half a day before I learnt that Philip was a lorry driver, and he was taking his wife on a holiday to Cape Town, where she'd never been.

Before I learnt about the endowment effect I would go through my things one by one and try to make a decision on what to do with it.

When musicians reported having personal memories (e.g. "I've played this melody before"; "I learnt this excerpt during my formal musical training"), most of them also had associated mental imagery (e.g. "I can see myself playing this melody"), which was not the case for nonmusicians.

"Before I learnt that menstruation is a natural thing, that every girl in the world has this, I used to be absent from school for all four days of my period, sometimes seven days," she says.

"Periods affect rich and poor girls," seconds his classmate, Rage Abdulqadir, 18.  "They are wrong," says Hodon, 17. "Before I learnt that menstruation is a natural thing, that every girl in the world has this, I used to be absent from school for all four days of my period, sometimes seven days.

A few years would pass before I learned the horrifying story of what had happened on that mountain more than 15 years earlier, and well over a decade before the story made its way into my writing life.

Could he swim when, at 27, he threw himself into the East River in an impetuous attempt at suicide? "If I didn't know how to swim before, I learned that day," he said, a slight smile crossing his face.

"I learned to swim before I learned to walk.

I knew the circumstances of their demise before I learned their names or saw their faces.

Before I learned that green curries were soupy, I made them creamy, which actually is nicer.

Eighteen years passed before I learned what had really happened to Shaun's father.