Sentence examples for before at the outbreak from inspiring English sources

It had last turned almost 50 years before, at the outbreak of war, when workers downed tools to go and enlist.

Leighton emerges from the pages of Testament of Youth as a glamorous, heroic figure, an idealistic public schoolboy who was captain of the Officers' Training Corps at Uppingham School before signing up at the outbreak of war.

Geldray was born in the Netherlands and played jazz in England, Belgium, France and his home country, before settling in Britain at the outbreak of the Second World War; he was wounded during the Invasion of Normandy.

The family moved around the country with her father's work, living in Yorkshire and Birmingham before settling in Woking, Surrey at the outbreak of the Second World War.

It was briefly a hotel and country club, before being requisitioned by the Army at the outbreak of the Second World War.

With the Peace of Amiens, Cooke briefly retired on half-pay before being recalled to the fleet at the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars in 1803.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, having shortly before been left a widow with a considerable estate, Wittenmyer devoted herself to relief work.

Four years later the regiment was stationed in Ireland, before sailing once more for the West Indies in 1793 at the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars.

At the outbreak of war in 1914 he flew as an observer before training as a fighter pilot in 1916.

The agency has found itself at the outbreak's epicentre.

At the outbreak of war, Indian regiments were immediately mobilised.