Sentence examples for before being picked to from inspiring English sources

Since then Reeves had been promoted to master sgt and awarded the D.S.C. before being picked to return to the States.

She became a chorus girl at the age of 15 and danced in nightclubs and in touring companies before being picked to play the role of a cabaret dancer in the Broadway play The Noose in 1926.

Colonies were streaked for isolation before being picked to liquid HS TMA medium.

Gillespie, who played the last of his 71 Tests for Australia in 2006, was linked with the England job before Peter Moores was picked to succeed Andy Flower last April.

That was before he was picked to host Channel 4's The Last Leg, a show initially intended to provide light relief during the 2012 Paralympics but which has subsequently taken on a life of its own.

In a speech on April 3 at the Associated Press luncheon in Washington, Obama tried to make the case against Ryan well before he was picked to run for vice president.

Measurements of cell size and DNA content were of cells that had been selected on 5-FOA plates, then transferred to YPD medium before clones were picked to inoculate the initial growth cultures examined.

"Before the season, we were picked to be one of the teams that could do it.

After exposure to mutagen, the worms were washed and allowed to recover for 1 2 h before young gravid hermaphrodites were picked to fresh plates (10 per plate).

In polls published just before the election, Mr. Morales had been picked to finish fourth.

But before this season, North Carolina State was picked to win the A.C.C. title, raising expectations and the pressure on the team.