Sentence examples for before familiar from inspiring English sources

I took her through every room of the house, stopping before familiar walls.

When you have almost half a team return it can take time – and possibly the odd social get-together – before familiar rhythms return.

However, we found the opposite, namely that it takes years of training and highly expert reading skills, before familiar printed words give rise to automatic picture-like activations in the cortices of developing readers.

Thus in the test phase one of the objects had been presented in that location and context before but not in that location within that particular context (novel OPC association), unlike the other object copy which had been seen in that location within that context before (familiar OPC association).

In the test phase two copies of a third novel object were placed at the left and right positions of either context 1 or 2. Thus one of the objects within the test phase was in a place that had been experienced in that context before (familiar PC association) while the other object was in a place where no objects had previously been experienced in that context (novel PC association).

The S.E.C.'s complaint against the Heinz traders landed before a familiar judge: Jed S. Rakoff.

I WANT to finish this column before a familiar mood has passed.

"I forgot to bring anything," she concluded, just before her familiar plaid suitcases scraped down the carrousel behind her.

America, which had felt like a foreign place seen from bus windows a few months before, looked familiar, smaller.

There was a long pause before the familiar sound of an answering machine emerged from the speaker.

Couplets, by definition, are restrictive, far more so than other rhyme schemes, which space out their repetitions, allowing the reader a breath or two before the familiar sound comes boomeranging back.