Sentence examples for before he grasped from inspiring English sources

Gresham's hand, the referee Ron Winter told a pool reporter, had come off the ball by about an inch before he grasped it again.

The initial spark was a powerful memory of encountering news reports of the hunger strike on television as an 11-year-old, before he grasped its political meaning.

Cuthbert then caused consternation in Racing's ranks with what looked suspiciously like a knock-on before he grasped the ball and beat the remaining defence for Halfpenny to convert.

It's not clear if this constitutes the behavior of someone who charges $795 per class, or if I remind him of the ordinary individual he used to be before he grasped his own volition.

He grasped that no one before had ever attempted to put these realities on the printed page, and so he set to work.

From the first instant, before he even grasped his instinctive fear, Perkus understood that Ava did her thinking with her mouth.

The woman is never shown actually driving; the camera cuts away before she grasps the wheel.

It may be decades before she grasps the profundity of her loss.

The venom of this description, like the undisguised pleasure that Arendt took in leaving Israel — "I have never before grasped the concrete meaning of 'relief' so clearly," she wrote at the end of a 1955 trip — suggests the great emotional forces at play.

It forced me to come to terms with a part of my identity I had never before grasped as a child in the Middle East.

He also grasped, long before anyone else in the film industry, the emergence of youth culture in the '60s and '70s.